Redwood: Capture New Supplier Items in Negotiations

Suppliers can now provide new supplier items for both inventory and description-based line items when submitting responses in the Redwood supplier portal. The provided supplier items are automatically copied to the purchasing documents generated upon award. Additionally, if no existing supplier item is associated with the inventory item, the new supplier item is automatically added to item relationships in Product Information Management (PIM), provided this feature is enabled in the configure Procurement Business unit setup.

When creating a response to a negotiation with a backing requisition, the supplier bidders are presented with the supplier items coming from the requisition lines and can update them if needed. Similarly, when renegotiating an existing blanket purchase agreement, the suppliers can view and update the supplier items captured in the agreement.

Add New Supplier Item when Submitting Response

Category managers are notified of any new supplier items captured in responses, and only supplier items from awarded responses will be added to PIM.

Award Negotiation

Enhance transaction accuracy and improve Product Information Management (PIM) data quality by capturing supplier item information on the supplier's response.

Steps to enable and configure

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.

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

Additionally, you must opt in to Capture New Supplier Items in Negotiations in Oracle Sourcing functional area.

Setup for PIM Integration

• Business Unit Setup - To automatically add new supplier items (captured in negotiation responses) to item relationships in PIM, go to the Configure Procurement Business Function page, and select the Automatically add new supplier items to item relationships checkbox.

• Integration Setup - To facilitate seamless interaction between the Sourcing work area and Product Information Management (PIM) work area, an integration setup is required.
  1. Navigate to the Setup and Maintenance work area.
  2. Select Manage Setup Content.
  3. In Topology Definition, select Manage Integration of Additional Applications.
  4. Create a new integration setup.
  5. Fill the details as follows:
     1. Application Name: PON_DISPLAY_SUPP_ITEM_AND_MFG_PART_NUM
     2. Full URL: <customer_POD_URL>/fscmRestApi/resources/latest
     3. Partner Name: PON_DISPLAY_SUPP_ITEM_AND_MFG_PART_NUM
     4. Security Policy: oracle/wss_username_token_over_ssl_client_policy
     5. Username: <user name>
     6. Password: <As applicable>
  6. Select Apply and then select Save and Close.

Application Integration Setup

Tips and considerations

Consider these when you're working with supplier item, manufacturer, and manufacturer part numbers:

• The new supplier item is updated in item relationships in PIM only when there's no existing supplier item already associated with the item.
• Capturing and updating the manufacturer or manufacturer part number isn’t supported yet.

Key resources

• Refer to Manage Item Relationships in Using Product Master Data Management on the Oracle Help Center.
• 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.
• Refer to the What’s New for the Enforce different bid price decrement for each line in auctions.
• 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 either one of these privileges can access this feature:

• Create Response (PON_CREATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)
• Edit Response (PON_EDIT_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)
• Create Supplier Negotiation Response as Surrogate (PON_CREATE_SURROGATE_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)
• Submit Supplier Negotiation Response (PON_SUBMIT_SUPPLIER_NEGOTIATION_RESPONSE_PRIV)