Group Impacted Organizations During Item Replacement

Several organizations can get impacted during a supply disruption which get derived and displayed in the item replacement task, that is created to initiate item replacement for a disrupted item. You can now group the impacted organizations for an item replacement task as long as they have at least one common alternate option available and perform item replacement actions like replace and reinstate on the group. Prior to this update, you selected the level of replacement to be all organizations together or each organization individually while defining the replacement task. Instead, now you review the impacted organizations along with their alternate options. Based on the availability of a common alternate supply source or common alternate item, you can group all the organizations or a specific set of organizations as required.

Grouping of Organizations

Grouped Organizations

Grouping consolidates the purchase orders pertaining to different ship-to organizations that are supposed to undergo mass replacement. You can confirm the replacement options at the group level.

Confirm Replacement Options

In a scenario where some organizations had a particular alternate option to address a supply disruption and a few other organizations had a different alternate option, you had to initiate item replacement for each organization individually. When there’s a large number of inventory organizations in your enterprise, this becomes cumbersome. But with the organization grouping capability, you can perform the item replacement more efficiently by initiating the replacement for a group of organizations in one go and substantially reduce the administrative effort.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

• Once the organizations are grouped, they can’t be regrouped and the group can’t be split. Therefore, it's highly recommended to review the alternate options before grouping the organizations.

• The alternate item or the alternate supplier for the disrupted item must have a common source agreement for the organizations that are selected for grouping.

• The disrupted item must have a common source agreement against the disrupted supplier for the organizations that are selected for grouping.

Key Resources

• See Item Replacement in the Oracle Fusion Cloud Using Procurement guide in Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

• Manage Item Replacement (SCH_MANAGE_ITEM_REPLACEMENT)
• View Purchase Order Work Area (PO_VIEW_PURCHASING_WORKAREA_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.