Redwood: Create Alternate Lines in Supplier Portal

Suppliers can leverage the redwood response flow to offer alternate lines when the item requested by the category manager has limited availability or when they would want to suggest preferred items that are unknown to category managers. Suppliers can also respond to the line that the category manager originally defined in the negotiation.

After suppliers add alternate lines, they must provide the description for the alternate line. They can also change the UOM and add attachments.

Create an Alternate Response Line

Suppliers can create and submit their responses faster in a simplified Supplier Portal application. The intuitive layout makes it easier to drive supplier adoption thus improving your sourcing outcomes to achieve your spend goals.

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

• If you want to allow your suppliers to respond with alternate line information, you must create your negotiation using a style with Alternate response lines enabled.
• Redwood response flow will support negotiation lines with price breaks, line attributes, and cost factors in a future release update.

Key Resources

• Refer to the What's New for the Redwood: Use New Supplier Experience for Sourcing feature.
• Refer to the What's New for the Redwood: Enable the New Supplier Portal Home Page Experience in Oracle Supplier Portal functional area.
• For information about using Oracle Visual Builder Studio to extend your Redwood application pages, see Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM and SCM: Extending Redwood Applications for HCM and SCM Using Visual Builder Studio.
• Refer to Overview of Guided Journeys in the Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Resources: Implementing and Using Journeys guide, available on the Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

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

• Create Supplier Negotiation Response (PON_CREATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)
• Edit Supplier Negotiation Response (PON_EDIT_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.