The following design components are delivered in Fusion allowing effective support for outsourcing of procurement
operations or centralized procurement operations
Business units performing the requisitioning business function can identify other business units as their outsourced
service providers who would perform the procurement business function on their behalf.
This allows Requisitioning Business Units to
• Source demand from centrally maintained supply base
• Get access to centrally negotiated catalog content
• Leverage sourcing and order administration services from shared service providers
This allows procurement service centers to
• Easily push sourcing policies and rules to all their client Business Units
• Control access to catalog content and supply based for sourcing purposes
• Process downstream orders and negotiations on behalf of its clients in response to upstream requisitions from
these clients
• Have streamlined access to client Business Unit specific reference data when administering transactions on
their behalf
Procurement Business Function
This business function when assigned to a Business Unit lets customers
• Create and manage Purchase Orders and Purchase Agreements and Negotiation Events
• Setup and manage Supplier Sites for the purposes of inviting to bids, creating agreements and purchase
orders, processing invoices and releasing payments.
If this business function is assigned to a Business Unit, it is possible to setup system parameters that provide
configurations, controls and defaults that apply to this Business Unit when
• New supplier sites are created in this Business Unit
• The Business Unit is creating, managing new negotiation events (requires Oracle Fusion Sourcing license)
• The Business Unit is creating, managing new agreements or Orders
Business Benefits
By reorganizing the existing business system parameters, Fusion provides the following benefit:
• Enable the ability to maintain controls and defaults for procurement service centers on their sourcing
transactions like RFQs and Auctions. Prior to Fusion, this requires maintenance of such controls under every client
business unit to which the service centers provide service.
By providing the ability to separately assign the Procurement business function to business units and then identifying the
client BUs that these BUs provide service to, Fusion allows customers to setup dedicated service centers for providing
centralized sourcing and contract management services.
Navigate to Setup and Maintenance
Go to Manage Implementation Projects & click on the Project
Go to Define Business Function configuration
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