Redwood: Access Collaboration Flows Using New Supplier Portal User Experience

Your supplier users can now use the new Redwood Supplier Portal to perform all their business processes. The business processes that you can access are controlled by your roles and privileges. There are two business process cards seeded for supply chain collaboration. They are:

• Supply Collaboration: This will give your supplier users access to the supply collaboration business process. Here, the supplier user may review order forecasts, provide commits, and upload supplier on-hand quantities.
• Vendor-Managed Inventory: This will give your supplier users access to the buy-side vendor-managed inventory business process. Here, the supplier user may review inventory, inventory exceptions, create or upload replenishments, and upload min-max quantities. They can also view the life cycle of a replenishment request on the Replenishment Requests page.

The new Redwood Supplier Portal page displays cards for supplier portal business processes, including Supply Collaboration and Vendor-Managed Inventory, as well as notifications, news, and additional links.

Supplier Portal

The Supply Collaboration card navigates the user to the Supply Collaboration Overview page, that displays:

• Review Forecasts metric card and visualization,
• Order Forecasts Changes metric card and visualization,
• Past Due Commits metric card and visualization, and
• Navigation actions (based on assigned privileges).
  • Order Forecasts and Commits,
  • Supplier On-Hand Quantities, and
  • Upload Supply Data.

Supply Collaboration Overview

The Vendor-Managed Inventory card navigates the user to the Inventory page that provides navigation at the bottom to Replenishment Requests, Upload Replenishment Requests, and Upload Min-Max Quantities based on assigned privileges.

Vendor-Managed Inventory

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: Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management

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

Follow these steps and enable the Supplier Portal functional area:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select Procurement, then click Opt In Features.
3. Enable Supplier Portal, then click Done.

Enable Supplier Portal Functional Area

To enable the feature:

1. Click Navigator > My Enterprise > Offerings.
2. On the Offerings page, select Procurement, then click Opt In Features.
3. On the Opt In Procurement page, click the Features icon for the Supplier Portal functional area.
4. On the Edit Features page, check the Enable box for the feature Redwood: Enable the New Supplier Portal Home Page Experience.
5. Click Done

Tips And Considerations

Before enabling this feature, review the following points to understand its impact on your current Supplier Portal deployment:

• In Update 25B, suppliers can access both the Supply Collaboration and Vendor-Managed Inventory business processes via the navigation cards, based on their function security from assigned job roles.  Other business objects were updated in 25A, with additional updates planned for future releases.

After enabling this feature, both Supply Collaboration and Vendor-Managed Inventory business processes will be displayed in the new Redwood version, regardless of your profile settings defined in Setup and Maintenance under the Manage Profile Options for Supply Chain Collaboration task.

Key Resources

• For additional information, please refer to the Redwood: Enable the New Supplier Portal Home Page Experience in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement 25A What's New.

Access Requirements

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

• Supplier Portal
  • Access Supplier Portal Overview (POS_ACCESS_SUPPLIER_PORTAL_OVERVIEW_PRIV)

• Supply Collaboration
  • Commit to Order Forecasts as Contract Manufacturer (VCS_COMMIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SHIPTO_PRIV)
  • Commit to Order Forecasts as Supplier (VCS_COMMIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
  • Edit Order Forecasts as Contract Manufacturer (VCS_EDIT_ORDER_FORECAST_SHIPTO_PRIV)
  • Manage Supplier On-Hand Quantities as Supplier User (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLIER_ONHAND_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
  • Manage Supply Data for Externally Managed Organizations as Supplier User (VCS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_EXTERNAL_DATA_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
• Vendor-Managed Inventory
  • Manage Inventory as Supplier (VCS_MANAGE_INVENTORY_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
  • Manage Replenishment Requests as Supplier (VCS_MANAGE_REPL_REQUESTS_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
  • Review Transactions for VMI Items as Supplier (VCS_VMI_REVIEW_TRANSACTIONS_SUPPLIER_PRIV)
  • View Replenishment Requests as Supplier (VCS_VIEW_REPL_REQUESTS_SUPPLIER_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.