Oracle Supplier Qualification Rule Sets

Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement provides a functionality that you can use to solicit information from your suppliers at various points in the supplier's life cycle. You control the content and timing of the questionnaire by defining rule sets.

A rule set consists of one or more qualification areas. The questions defined to these qualification areas are used to generate a questionnaire and send it to a supplier. After the supplier receives and answers the questionnaire, you can use the supplier's response information to update the supplier profile information. You can:

• Use existing qualification areas.

• Create qualification areas in Oracle Supplier Qualification and then use them in your rule set.

  If you have to create a qualification area, note that:

  • The questions must be at the supplier level.

  • The questions can't include internal responders.

  • The questions are active.

You can specify a sourcing qualification model for a particular procurement BU to assess a supplier's eligibility to participate in sourcing negotiations.

When one of the triggering events occurs for which you have defined a rule set, the application creates a questionnaire consisting of the qualification areas that you identified in your rule set. This questionnaire is what the supplier sees. When you receive the supplier's response, you use the supplier's basic registration information and questionnaire responses to evaluate the supplier information with regards to the triggering event.

When a supplier is approved as a prospective or spend authorized supplier, his responses are stored in the Supplier Qualification Response Repository. Once the supplier's responses are in the Response Repository, you can use those responses to create qualifications for the supplier.