Supplier Address Default Country

A default country is provided when you create a new supplier address. The rules used to make the country selection differ between various supplier management flows.

External Supplier Registration

When a new address is created during supplier registration, the following rules are used to derive the default country:

1. Use the country specified in the countryCode parameter in the supplier registration URL.

2. If there is no countryCode parameter or it does not resolve to a country, use the country from the location assigned to the inviting procurement BU.

3. If the inviting procurement BU does not have a location assigned, provide no country as the default.

   Set the location for a BU using the Manage Business unit task, accessed through the Setup and Maintenance work area.

When an address is created while editing a supplier profile change request, if all existing addresses for the supplier use the same country, it is used as the default country. Otherwise, no country is supplied as the default.

Internal Supplier Registration

Rules are used to derive the default country in the following scenarios:

• When a new address is created during internal supplier registration

• When a supplier is created or edited

• When a supplier is registered through sourcing

• When the Request New Supplier task is run in Self Service Procurement

The following rules apply:

1. Use the location assigned to the provided procurement BU to obtain the country.

   • For the Internal Supplier Registration flow, the procurement BU is optional.

   • For the Create Supplier or Edit Supplier flows, there is no procurement BU context for address creation.

   • For the sourcing Register Supplier flow, the procurement BU is the one defined in the negotiation.

   • For the Request New Supplier flow in Self Service Procurement, the application will first obtain the requisitioning BU from the Requisitioning Preferences page in the Purchase Requisitions work area. It will then use the Requisitioning BU to derive a default procurement BU from the Configure Requisitioning Business Function setup page.

2. If a procurement BU is not provided or if the procurement BU does not have a location assignment, the application obtains the country from the job assignment location for the current user's employee record in HCM. To set or change the job assignment:

   1. In the Person Management work area, search for the person with which the user is associated.

   2. Click Management Employment, then Edit, and then Update.

   3. Click Location Change and click OK.

   4. Set the location for the job assignment and click Save.

3. If no country information can be obtained from these rules, no default country is provided.

Supplier Profile Edits

When a supplier user creates a new address, if all active supplier addresses have the same country information, that country is provided as the default. Otherwise, no default country is provided.