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:
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Maintaining existing suppliers.
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Reviewing and approving profile change requests.
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Reviewing and setting up supplier profiles to be ready for spend transactions.
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Registering new suppliers needed for purchasing that will be reviewed and approved by the supplier manager.
Supplier Manager
The supplier manager is responsible for:
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Controlling the addition of new suppliers.
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Completing and approving prospective supplier profiles to be ready for spend.
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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 |
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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 |