1. Integration Playbooks for Procurement
  2. REST APIs (Inbound) for Supplier Model

REST APIs (Inbound) for Supplier Model

Use the REST APIs integration option if some of your business processes require real-time updates to your supplier data.

For example, your business might need to update the supplier site assignments or business classifications for a supplier you're maintaining in Oracle Supplier Model in real time. You can use REST APIs to integrate with Oracle Supplier Model. A comprehensive set of REST APIs is available for customers and architectures of integrating systems to view, create, update, or delete records for their real-time integration requirements.

Key Features

  • Use Suppliers REST resources for real-time integration requirements.
  • Perform create, update, and delete operations on supplier entities.
  • Use the Submit supplier spend-authorization request custom REST API action to submit a supplier spend-authorization request.
  • Use Suppliers REST resources to achieve end-to-end process orchestration.
  • Supports BATCH operation on the supplier model business object, enabling you execute multiple updates and perform post, delete, and get operations in a single call. You also can combine updates to multiple suppliers in the BATCH mode.
  • You can use these Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials REST resources to create or update:
    • External Payees REST resource: Supplier payment attributes.
    • External Party Payment Methods REST resource: Supplier payment methods.
    • External Bank Accounts and Instrument Assignments REST resources: Supplier bank accounts.
    • Taxpayer Identifiers, Tax Registrations, Third Party Fiscal Classifications, Third Party Site Fiscal Classifications, Tax Exemptions, Third-Party Tax Reporting Code Associations, Third-Party Site Tax Reporting Code Associations REST resources: Supplier transaction tax attributes.

Best Practices

  • Use this option if you need to perform real-time operations.
  • Use REST APIs for making low volume creates and updates to suppliers. For better performance, when creating or updating many supplier records, consider using file-based data import (FBDI).
  • When performing POST operations, limit the number of records to a maximum of 500.
  • Use the Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel, which lets you edit data using Microsoft Excel. It's an intuitive option that you can use instead a REST client.

Constraints

  • Only the GET operation is supported for contacts and addresses descriptive flexfields (DFFs). For other operations, use SOAP services or FBDI.
  • Updates to suppliers using REST APIs don't go through approval. Change control isn't imposed.
  • If a supplier profile entity is enabled for change control, the POST and PATCH operations are allowed only for integration use cases, for example, if the user calling the REST API has integration user access.
  • You can't use a single BATCH operation across the Suppliers and Financials REST resources to create or update supplier, payment, transaction tax, and bank account details together.

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