1 Introduction
Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service enables retailers to collaborate directly with their suppliers for preselection and ongoing evaluation of sites, production facilities, and items, and to accomplish streamlined merchandising operations, leveraging data provided by partners through a single portal with a common navigation.
Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service is composed of the following modules:
Supplier Evaluation
Supports the on-boarding, evaluation, and management of Merchandising suppliers, enabling assessment and governance of ethical, environmental, safety, and quality performance, automatically scoring and grading suppliers, and items against multiple business disciplines for actionable insight.
Functions incorporate supplier self-certification survey, item assessment, audit and action management, process management, and incident alert notifications.
Retail Supply Chain Hub (RSCH)
Improves collaboration between retailers and suppliers with a platform to share information integrated in the Oracle Retail suite, increasing order and fulfillment efficiency and accuracy and reducing supply chain disruption and risk through direct collaboration on merchandising operations.
Functions include supplier self-configuration and enabling collaboration on item, cost and price management, deals, inventory and sales, payments, purchase orders, customer orders, and appointments.
This user guide covers the following features, which form the integration between the Supplier Evaluation and Supply Chain Hub modules:
- Navigation - Access to Supply Chain Hub functionality from the Supplier Evaluation navigation system.
- Supplier Site Management - Supplier Evaluation site accounts are prevented from being deactivated if the corresponding account remains enabled in Supply Chain Hub. Links provide direct access between the corresponding site accounts. The count of sites is used as the Retail Home metric.
- User Management - Centralized user account management in Supplier Evaluation with automated synchronization with Supply Chain Hub. Links provide direct access between the corresponding user accounts. Provides suppliers with the ability to self-manage their users.
An appendix that provides additional information on the integration processes is included in this guide.