Redwood: Use an Enhanced Supplier Redwood Experience

In this update, the redwood experience in supplier portal delivered in 25A has several new enhancements for Sourcing suppliers:

  • Create response in a different currency: Suppliers can now create responses in currencies other than the negotiation currency. Suppliers can only select a currency from the list that buyer has allowed in the negotiation.
  • Copy Response: While creating a response, the details of an existing response can be copied to the new response, instead of adding all the details from scratch. Suppliers can copy draft or active responses, but only if the negotiation allows multiple responses and/or response revisions.
  • Timer on View Response page: The timer shows the time remaining until the negotiation is closed to help motivate suppliers to submit their response on time. The timer can be configured to show only when the negotiation is closing within 24 hours. Timer is displayed on the draft and submitted response page.
  • Timer countdown to negotiation open date: If the negotiation is not open yet and is in preview stage, then the countdown on the negotiation view and response view page will show the time remaining until the negotiation opens.
  • Closing within 7 days filter: The ‘Drafts’ filter on the Responses search page is now changed to ‘Closing within 7 days.’ This filter will appear under the ‘Needs Attention’ filter chip. On selecting this filter, all responses whose negotiation is closing within 7 days will be displayed. Archived responses will not be shown when the ‘Closing within 7 days’ filter is applied.
  • Download response PDF: The response details can now be downloaded in PDF format from the following pages: Search Responses, Submitted page of a response, Create page of a draft response.          
  • Export Responses to Excel: Responses on the Responses search page can now be downloaded in Excel using a download button present on the page.

Response in alternate currencies

Create response in a different currency

Copy response

Copy Response

Timer on View Response

Timer on View Response page

Countdown to Open

Timer countdown to negotiation open

Close 7

Closing within 7 days filter

Download PDF

Download response PDF

Export

Export Responses to Excel

These enhancements improve the Redwood user experience for Sourcing suppliers making it easier for them to participate and respond to negotiations.

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 use this feature, you must opt in to the Update 25A feature Redwood: Enable the New Supplier Portal Home Page Experience in Oracle Supplier Portal functional area. If you previously opted in to the Redwood: Supplier Portal Home Page Experience already, then this feature is automatically enabled.

You may refer to the What's New for the detailed instructions on Steps to Enable.

Tips And Considerations

Consider opting in to the Redwood Supplier Experience only if you conduct negotiations that don’t have any of these features:

  • High volume of negotiation lines
  • Negotiations with contract terms or base contracts
  • Negotiation lines with price breaks, line attributes, or cost factors
  • Auctions with proxy bidding, auto extend, or staggered closing

These features will be supported in future updates.

Key Resources

Access Requirements

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

  • View Supplier Negotiation Response as a supplier (PON_VIEW_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_SUPPLIER_FACING_PRIV_OBI)
  • Create Supplier Negotiation Response (PON_CREATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE).
  • Edit Supplier Negotiation Response (PON_EDIT_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)
  • View Supplier Negotiation as Supplier (PON_VIEW_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_SUPPLIER_FACING_PRIV)
  • Manage Supplier Negotiation Response as Supplier (PON_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_SUPPLIER_FACING_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.