Redwood: Enable Buyer-Managed Transportation for Purchasing Documents
Enable buyer-managed transportation for purchasing documents using a Redwood experience. Indicate in a purchase order your buying organization's intent to assume responsibility for the transportation of the ordered goods.
You can now enable buyer-managed transportation in the Redwood application when you create a purchase order. When buyer-managed transportation is enabled in the Procurement offering, you can:
- Indicate in a negotiation, agreement, or purchase order (PO) your buying organization's preference to arrange transportation for a purchasing transaction.
- Identify the shipping method.
- Specify the requested ship date for goods.
- Communicate these details to the supplier.
These screenshots illustrate the feature.
Enable Buyer-Managed Transportation on the Redwood View Purchase Order Page
You can see these buyer-managed transportation attributes in purchase order schedules:
- Requested Ship Date
- Promised Ship Date
- Requested Delivery Date
- Promised Delivery Date
- Last Acceptable Delivery Date
- Last Acceptable Ship Date
Date Fields in the Schedule Table
Steps to Enable
To use this feature, you must enable the Buyer-Managed Transportation feature in the Offerings work area, in the Procurement offering, Procurement functional area.
Tips And Considerations
When you create a purchase order, the buyer-managed transportation setting can be populated by default and is derived based on the existing values for the setting from these tasks, in this order of precedence:
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The value from the source blanket purchase agreement specified on the PO.
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The value for the supplier site.
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The value for the business unit, as set in the Setup and Maintenance work area, Configure Procurement Business Function task. You can find the task in the Procurement offering, Procurement Foundation functional area.
Key Resources
- To know how to manage the transportation for a purchasing transaction, refer to the Buyer Managed Transportation in Procurement 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
No specific privileges are needed to enable buyer-managed transportation for Purchasing documents.