Overview of Supplier Work Area

The Suppliers Work Area Overview page is the home page to perform day-to-day supplier maintenance and administration activities.

The overview page provides visibility to supplier information in order to carry out tasks ranging from routine maintenance, to event driven administrative responsibilities. In addition, the overview page contains reports that highlight supplier issues requiring attention and provides easy access to maintain and update supplier records.

The overview page is available to the Supplier Administrator and Supplier Manager.

Supplier Administrator

The supplier administrator role is responsible for:

• Maintaining existing suppliers.

• Reviewing and approving profile change requests.

• Reviewing and setting up supplier profiles to be ready for spend transactions.

• Registering new suppliers needed for purchasing that will be reviewed and approved by the supplier manager.

Supplier Manager

The supplier manager is responsible for:

• Controlling the addition of new suppliers.

• Completing and approving prospective supplier profiles to be ready for spend.

• Creating supplier records for procurement.

Work Area Overview Page

The Suppliers Work Area Overview page contains the following reports:

The table below shows the information on the Supplier Work Area Overview page.

Region	Summary	Supplier Manager View	Supplier Administrator View
Supplier Spend Authorization Requests	Identifies the status of suppliers with a request for spend authorization as pending approval or rejected. Supplier Managers can follow up on pending approvals or review reasons for rejection and decide on a course of action. For example, you can make changes to the rejected supplier and resubmit the request.	Yes	Yes
Expired and Expiring Business Classifications	Identifies suppliers for whom business classification certificates are about to expire or have expired. You can maintain supplier records that are at risk of losing their diversity status which could impact the supplier relationship.	Yes	Yes
Supplier Profile Change Requests Pending Approval	Identifies all profile change requests pending approval. Here, you can identify the approval queue for profile change requests that need review by the buying organization. This report is only displayed if Oracle Supplier Portal is implemented.	Yes	Yes
Suppliers with Incomplete Setup	Identifies suppliers that are missing important profile information. From here, suppliers can be inactivated if it is determined the supplier was created erroneously.	Yes	Yes