Extending Next Generation Supplier Self-Service Registration

Supplier Registration can have unique requirements based on factors like geographic region and industry. If the information requested in the registration flow isn't tailored to the supplier based on these types of factors, it can be confusing and result in higher support costs with lower registration success rates. Tailor a seamless experience for your suppliers in the next generation supplier self-service registration by using Business Rules in Oracle's Visual Builder (VB) Studio. Business Rules offer a user-friendly interface that allows you to extend registration pages to make fields required or optional, read-only or editable, or hidden. These properties can also be applied conditionally based on specific criteria such as country. With Business Rules, you can efficiently deliver a tailored registration experience for suppliers with lower support costs. 

In this update, Business Rules are supported on the Company Details page, and additional pages are planned for the future. You can configure the individual attributes, including descriptive flexfields, per your business needs. In VB Studio, after you enter the workspace of a project, navigate to the layouts. Under Register Supplier click on SupplierRegistration page and then the Business Rules tab to access the default rules for the company details attributes.

Default Business Rules

Since the default rules can't be modified, start by duplicating them to create a new rule set you'll use to configure the attribute properties. Click on the action drawer (step 5 in the above screen shot) and then the duplicate action to create a duplicate of the default rules. On the new duplicated rule set, toggle the options available under the required, hidden and read-only columns to change the display properties of the individual attributes. For example, as demonstrated below, you can enable the descriptive flexfields and also configure individual descriptive flexfields as required or hidden. Unchanged attributes will keep the default properties.

Extension Business Rules Set to Enable Descriptive Flexfields

You can also add conditions on extension business rules using country, organization type, supplier type, and business relationship attributes. For example, as demonstrated below, you can configure taxpayer ID and supplier type as required for United States. In the conditions section, select the value of country as United States and then configure the taxpayer ID and supplier type attributes as required.

Extension Business Rules Set for United States

After making all the required extension changes, verify and then publish the project.

Another extension capability to add company logo is also now available. Add a new section in the container rule set of the suppreg-shell and insert the image of your company logo in this new section following this navigation: Workspace > Apps UI > From Dependencies > Register Supplier > Application Root Pages > suppreg-shell > Container Rule Set 1. You can remove the default section from your rule set if you have to show the logo but not the company name that is available by default in this shell.

Extend Your Shell to Add Your Company Logo

Steps to Enable

Configure Descriptive Flexfields: If you’re currently using or plan to use descriptive flexfields of type, list of values, you need to make additional setup changes to allow anonymous users access to the value sets. The setup must be performed for new as well as your existing descriptive flexfields, for more information, see How to Enable Descriptive Flexfields in the Next Generation Supplier Self-Service Registration.

Tips And Considerations

1. At any point in time, only one business rules set will be applicable. The sets are evaluated from top to bottom and the first applicable set is considered. You must therefore position the always applied extension business rules set towards the bottom. If none of the extension rules apply, default (built-in) rules will be considered to render the page.

2. The default properties of attributes are applicable if their properties are left unchanged on the applicable extension business rules.

3. Adding conditions on extension business rules is not mandatory.

4. Other extension capabilities like adding instruction texts or hyperlinks using dynamic containers delivered in a previous update, will continue to function as is. For example, you can add country-specific instruction text on the company details page to provide guidance on what documents must be attached. If you have implemented any extensions that aren't supported such as those on the dynamic components under Layouts, you must delete them prior to Update 24A.

5. To rename attributes you need to use the user interface text tool editor.

Key Resources

• To get an overview of the next generation supplier self-service registration feature, refer to the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement What's New (23C Update) and TOI.

• To get an overview of using Business Rules in Oracle's Visual Builder Studio to extend the next generation supplier self-service registration, refer to the TOI.

• To get more details on the extension capabilities supported in previous updates, refer to Extending the Next Generation Self-Service Supplier Registration Pages in Update 23C and Update 23D.

• To get more details on using Visual Builder Studio to extend the Oracle Cloud Applications, refer to Oracle Help Center.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains this privilege can access VB Studio for extension:

• Administer Sandbox (FND_ADMINISTER_SANDBOX_PRIV)