Integration with Accredited Bodies

The system can be configured to allow for the integration of Assessments with third parties. This is of use where the retailer or supplier is using a third party such as a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) partner to source specialist data, for example sustainability, environmental and ethical analysis information about a supplier or its products.

For a third party to integrate with the Supplier Evaluation system, the retailer portal owner must register them as an Accredited Body and create an External System account, granting them assess to the relevant APIs.

An Assessment Template can be configured to be the type of assessment which will be used to capture data from a third party, in which case one or more Accredited Bodies are assigned. When an Assessment of that type is created, one of the permitted Accredited Bodies is selected. That third party is then able to retrieve the assessment using the Scorecard API to supply their data by populating the answers to its questions. They then submit the assessment responses using the same API.

Once an assessment is returned it is reviewed, approved and completed in the same way as regular assessments. The data provided by the third party is thus available for viewing within the assessment and for use in reports. Summary Attributes may be configured to give labels to individual responses which are then presented in info panels.

The integration may be supplier owned, where the supplier liaises with the third party and may be responsible for the final completion of the assessment, or retailer owned, where the retailer typically works with the third party without involving the supplier.

When registering a third party as an Accredited Body it is possible to configure a link to the third party’s proprietary system, in which case an option will appear in the top level Accredited Bodies navigation Tasks menu.

See the LCA Third Party Integration appendix in the Oracle Retail Supply Chain Collaboration Cloud Service Implementation Guide for further details on the integration.