Connect with Your Trading Partners using SPS Commerce Fulfillment for Oracle Cloud

A new predefined service provider, SPS Commerce, is available for your order-to-cash electronic messaging needs. If you subscribe to SPS Commerce services, you can connect with your trading partners and exchange messages using SPS Commerce fulfillment for Oracle Fusion Cloud.

SPS Commerce messages and endpoints are predefined, and a new simplified process is provided to streamline the B2B setup in the Collaboration Messaging work area.

Steps to Enable

At a high level, to set up the predefined SPS Commerce service provider:

  1. Configure SPS Commerce to exchange messages with your trading partners.
  2. Create trading partners.
  3. Associate the trading partners with your customers and select the documents you want to exchange.

These steps are detailed in the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide.

Configure SPS Commerce to Exchange Messages with Your Trading Partners

  1. Select Manage Collaboration Messaging Service Providers from the Tasks panel tab, search for the SPS Commerce service provider, and select Actions > Edit.

The overview tab displays the following SPS Commerce details:

  • Connection type that is configured, Test or Production.
  • Check box to indicate whether credentials are configured.
  • Number of trading partners configured for SPS Commerce.
  • Number of trading partners with override message definitions.
  • Number of customers set up with SPS Commerce as the service provider.

Screen capture that shows an overview of the SPS Commerce service provider.

Service Provider Overview

  1. Select Actions > Manage Delivery Settings to configure the settings for outbound message delivery.
    • Select Test or Production in the Outbound Delivery Connection Type drop-down list to reflect the environment you're setting up.
    • Enter the username and password provided by SPS Commerce for sending messages to their network in the Service Provider User Name and Password fields.

Screen capture that shows how to manage the delivery settings.

Manage Delivery Settings

  1. Select the Outbound Message Setup tab to activate these outbound messages:
  • Purchase Order Acknowledgment
  • Advance Shipment Notice
  • Invoice

Screen capture that shows the outbound message setup.

Outbound Message Setup

  1. Select the Inbound Message Setup tab to activate the inbound PO.

Screen capture that shows the inbound message setup.

Inbound Message Setup

Create Trading Partners

After completing the service provider setup, create your trading partners.

  1. Select Manage B2B Trading Partners on the Tasks panel tab.
  2. On the Manage B2B Trading Partners page, select Actions > Create, and add your trading partners.
  3. Select SPS Commerce as the service provider.

Screen capture that shows how to create a trading partner.

Create a Trading Partner

Associate Trading Partners with Your Customers

Next, associate the trading partners with your customers and select the documents you plan to exchange.

  1. Select Manage Customer B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, and search for your customers.
  1. Select a customer and then select Edit Collaboration Configuration.
  1. On the Edit Customer B2B Configuration page in the Associated Service Providers section, select Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the SPS Commerce service provider.
  1. On the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select Actions > Add Row. Add the following three inbound documents, and set their Association Status to Enabled.
  • Purchase Order - Inbound
  • Purchase Order Acknowledgment - Outbound
  • Advance Ship Notice - Inbound

Screen capture that shows how to associate a customer with a trading partner.

Customer B2B Collaboration

  1. To set up the outbound invoice for your customers, select Manage Customer Account B2B Configuration on the Tasks panel tab, then select Order to Cash from the Collaboration Business Process drop-down list and search for your customers.
  1. Select a customer and then select Edit Collaboration Configuration.
  1. On the Edit Customer Account B2B Configuration page in the Associated Service Providers section, select Actions > Add Row to add a trading partner and the SPS Commerce service provider.
  1. On the Collaboration Documents for Service Provider section, select Actions > Add Row. Add the outbound invoice document and set the Association Status to Enabled.

Screen capture that shows the association status for the service provider.

Customer Account B2B Collaboration

Key Resources

  • Refer to the Configuring and Managing B2B Messaging for Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM guide on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

  • Manage B2B Customer Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Customer Account Collaboration Configuration (CMK_B2B_CUSTOMER_ACCOUNT_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage B2B Trading Partners (CMK_B2B_TRADING_PARTNERS_PRIV)
  • Manage Service Provider (CMK_MANAGE_SERVICE_PROVIDER_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.