Extending Next Generation Supplier Self-Service Registration

Supplier Registration can have unique requirements based on factors like country and industry. If the information requested in the registration flow isn't tailored to the supplier based on these types of factors, it can be confusing and result in higher support costs with lower registration success rates. Tailor a seamless experience for your suppliers in the next generation supplier registration by using Business Rules from Oracle's Visual Builder Studio. Business Rules allow you to easily configure company details and now contacts and addresses pages; Offering a user-friendly interface to extend registration pages to make fields required or optional, read-only or editable, and shown or hidden. These properties can also be applied conditionally based on specific criteria such as country. With Business Rules, you can efficiently deliver a tailored registration experience for suppliers with lower support costs.

You can now configure individual attributes, including descriptive flexfields, on contacts and addresses pages and add conditions in business rules using country, organization type, supplier type, and business relationship attributes.  The following example shows a configured rule with conditions: if supplier is Prospective and in the United States, then; Phone is required for a contact, User Roles are read only, and the Receive Payments address purpose is hidden.

Configure Contact Phone and User Roles for United States and Prospective Business Relationship

Configure Receive Payments Address Purpose

During the registration for a prospective supplier in the United States, user is required to provide phone number for the contact. User can choose to request user account for the contact, but the roles assigned to the user account are read only and can't be changed.

Phone is Required and Roles are Read-only for Contacts

On the Addresses page, the Receive Payments address purpose doesn't appear on the page.

Removed Address Purpose: Received Payments

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Procurement

To enable this feature, you must opt in to the Next Generation User Experience for Supplier Self-Service Registration feature under Suppliers and perform all the setup steps.

Configure Descriptive Flexfields: If you’re currently using or plan to use descriptive flexfields of type, list of values, you need to make additional setup changes to allow anonymous users access to the value sets. The setup must be performed for new as well as your existing descriptive flexfields, for more information, see How to Enable Descriptive Flexfields in the Next Generation Supplier Self-Service Registration.

Tips And Considerations

Consider these when you use this feature:

• After update 24B, regions and fields for Contacts and Addresses page will appear in your existing business rules on company details.  Review these existing business rules and decide whether there's a need to enhance them for the Contacts and Addresses pages. If you don't change anything in contacts and addresses for existing business rules after update 24B, the default attribute properties will apply.

• Other extension capabilities delivered in previous updates, such as adding instruction texts or hyperlinks using dynamic containers, will continue to function as is.

• If you have implemented any extensions that aren't supported such as those on the dynamic components under layouts, or configured any constants, then you must delete them prior to update 24B.

• To rename attributes you need to use the user interface text tool editor.

Key Resources

• To get an overview of the next generation supplier self-service registration feature, refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement What's New (23C Update) and TOI.

• To get more details on the extension capabilities using business rules for supplier registration, refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement What's New (Update 24A).

• To get more details on the extension capabilities supported in previous updates, refer to Extending the Next Generation Self-Service Supplier Registration Pages in Update 23C and Update 23D.

• To get more details on setting up project and workspaces in VB Studio, refer to Setting Up Project and Workspaces in VB Studio to Extend Next Generation Supplier Registration Pages.

• To get more details on using business rules to control display, refer to Set Properties for an Extension Rule and Understand What Will be Shown at Runtime.

• To get more details on using Visual Builder Studio and understanding the extension components used in extending supplier registration, refer to Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access VB Studio for extension:

• Administer Sandbox (FND_ADMINISTER_SANDBOX_PRIV)