Shop by Category

You can now shop for items using category-based browsing in the Redwood Self Service Procurement application. You can access the browsing categories using the Browse all link in the Shop by Category section. When you select a browsing category, matching results are displayed along with the browsing hierarchy. You can navigate to child categories and other available browsing categories in the Shop by category drawer.

Shop by Category Section on the Homepage

You can leverage the browsing category hierarchy to quickly find products and services that you want to request.

Search Results Page

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

If you want to use the Shop by Category feature, then you must opt in to one or both of these features:

• Enable the Redwood Version as the Default Self Service Procurement Application: Makes the Purchase Requisitions (New) work area available to all your users, and hides the Purchase Requisitions work area from all your users.
• Procure Goods and Services Using the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application: Keeps the Purchase Requisitions work area available to all your users, and makes the Purchase Requisitions (New) work area available to the users who are assigned this privilege: Manage Requisition with the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application (POR_MANAGE_REQ_WITH_PWA_PRIV).

If you’ve already opted in, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Tips And Considerations

• The Shop by category option is also available directly on the Search Results page to allow you to modify the search and view a different set of results.
• The Featured categories section on the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application page is renamed as Shop by category in this release.
• Changes to the category hierarchy won't reflect in the same session if the Shop by category option was previously accessed. To view the updated hierarchy, you must clear the cache. 

Key Resources

• To know more about how to use the Redwood Self Service Procurement application, refer to the Procure Goods and Services Using the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application readiness training.
• To know how to provide the required privileges to your requesters to use your own configured role instead of the Requisition Self Service User role, refer to the Privileges Required for a Predefined Role for a Requisition Self Service User topic. 
• For more information on how to enable a guided journey for Redwood pages, refer to the Enable a Guided Journey for Redwood Pages topic.
• 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

Access Requirements

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

• Manage Requisition with the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application (POR_MANAGE_REQ_WITH_PWA_PRIV) to access the Redwood Self Service Procurement Application.

This privilege was available prior to this update.