Discover New Suppliers Using Generative AI in Sourcing

Use generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to discover suppliers who may or may not be currently registered but possess the capability to provide goods and services for your business. If you like a recommendation, you can register the supplier and invite them to participate in the negotiation.

When creating a draft negotiation, you can click the Discover New Suppliers button on the Suppliers page to view AI-generated supplier suggestions. You can select other lines to view supplier suggestions for other items or services.

Discover New Suppliers Using AI Assist

Use generative AI to broaden the supplier pool by exploring new suppliers and adding them to your supply base. Increase competition in your negotiation events by inviting these suppliers.

We want your input! To provide feedback to Oracle on your experience with this feature, or to make suggestions about how the feature can be improved, post to the Sourcing forum on Oracle Cloud Customer Connect.

Steps to Enable

1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Profile Options setup task, and create a profile option as follows:

• • Profile Option Code: PON_SUPP_DISCOVERY
  • Profile Display Name: Sourcing Supplier Discovery
  • Application: Sourcing
  • Module: Sourcing
  • SQL Validation: Select meaning, lookup_code From fnd_lookups Where lookup_type='YES_NO'
  • Start Date: < Enter today's or desired date >
  • End Date: <leave empty>
  • Set Site Level to Enabled and Updatable for this profile option.
  • Click Save and Close.

2. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to the Manage Administrator Profile Values setup task, and add profile values as follows:

• • Use the Profile Option Code field to search for: PON_SUPP_DISCOVERY
  • Add profile level: Site, and profile value: Yes
  • Click Save and Close.

Tips And Considerations

This feature has the following limitations:

• Up to 5 suppliers are recommended per line for the first 10 negotiation lines only.

• The large language model used to generate recommendations doesn't consider the latest supplier data such as acquisitions, new product introductions, or going out of business.

The supplier suggestions generated by artificial intelligence may contain inaccuracies and shouldn’t be solely relied upon for researching and inviting suppliers to negotiations.

Key Resources

• To know more details about geographies where this feature is available, refer to the Fusion Generative AI Data Center Region Availability.

Access Requirements

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

• Create Supplier Negotiation (PON_CREATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_PRIV)   
• Create Supplier Negotiation Template (PON_CREATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_TEMPLATE_PRIV)   
• Edit Supplier Negotiation (PON_EDIT_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.