New or Changed Features

• Professional Buyer’s Work Center

• Document Styles
• Multi-Org Access Control
• Changes in requisition , RFQ, Quotation and PO screens
• Document Publishing Enhancements
• Communicate Document Attachments to Suppliers
• Maintain Sourcing Rules/ASLs for Agreements Items
 Professional Buyer’s Work
Center
Description
Oracle Purchasing Release 12 speeds up with an enhanced
Professional Buyer’s Work Center. Based on the latest web-based
user interface models, the Work Center is a central ‘Launch Pad’
from which buyers can effectively perform their daily tasks like:
- - View and Process Requisitions
-- Create and Manage Purchase Orders
-- Create and Manage Blanket and Contract Purchase
Agreements
-- Manage Procurement Contract Deliverables
-- Access Oracle Sourcing for Negotiations
-- Create and Manage Supply Base
Professional Buyer’s Work Center
Professional Buyer’s Work Center
Professional Buyer’s Work Center
Professional Buyer’s Work Center
 Professional Buyer’s Work
Center
Benefits
-- Increases Productivity
-- Ease-of-Use
 Document Styles
Description
In this release document style has enhanced features like, disabled
features are hidden to simplify the user interface and also
providing the ability to appropriately name the purchase
documents to align more closely with the naming conventions of
the deploying organization’s business.
Eg. Purchasing document type like ‘Standard Purchased Order’ can
assume different names based on the style applied.
 Document Styles
Benefits & Usage
-- Various settings allow companies to Control Look and Feel of User
Interface.
-- It’s a new concept that reduces the complexity of the application
by allowing the procurement managers to
control the available functionality and the display of PO
documents.
 Multi-Org Access Control
Description
In Release 12.0, Oracle Purchasing will leverage the new Multi-Org
Access capabilities to support operations of shared procurement
service centers, and without closing windows, buyers will now able
to perform their multiple operating units tasks.
 Multi-Org Access Control
Setups
-- General MOAC Setup
> Define Security Profile
> Set MO Profile Options
MO: Security Profile
MO: Default Operating Unit
 Multi-Org Access Control
Benefits
-- Improve efficiency of Shared Service Operations
> Easily access documents from different
operating units
-- Reduce Costs
> Cut down processing time
-- Access to more information for decision making
> Global consolidated view of data across
operating units
Changes in Requisition ,
RFQ, Quotation and PO
screens
11i Requisition Header
• R12 header has one change, new field Operating Unit has been added for
making the user more comfortable when entering requisitions for multiple
operating units
• New fields have been added to capture supplier information
R12 Requisition Header Screen
RFQ in R12
Quatation in R12
PO Header 11i
R12 PO Header
New Block Operating unit included in R12 as it
supports Multi Org Access control. need to
select the Operating unit for which the PO is
created before creating the PO

New Tab Temporary

Labor is added in R12 to
capture the temporary
labour information

New Fied Job is included to capture the

job information
R12 PO Lines – Temporary Labor
Tab
This is an additional Tab in R12 to capture the
contract Labor and their date information
11i PO Terms
R12 PO terms

This block Contract terms is newly

added in R12 to capture the procurement
contract information if it is fully
implemented.
 11i PO Shipments

The current Tax code and Tax groups are now enhanced in the new E business tax
Infrastrucute. Hence The Tax code and Taxable flag in Shipments removed in
R12 environment.

Note on E Business Tax:

Oracle E-Business Tax is a new infrastructure for tax knowledge management and
delivery, using a global system architecture that is configurable and scalable for adding
country specific tax content. As the single point solution for managing transaction-based
tax, Oracle E-Business Tax will deliver tax services uniformly to Oracle E-Business Suite
business flows through one application interface.
Oracle E-Business Tax significantly enhances the current tax code/tax group based tax
computation capabilities within the Procure to Pay business flow.
R12 PO Shipments

Now there is no field

called Tax Code
Contd….
Contd….

The Secondoary quantity trackings

also incorporated to in PO shipment
to aid the OPM
11i PO Distribution
R12 PO Distribution

Addtional
clolumn GL date
is included …
 Purchasing Options 11i and R12
R12 presents the new feature so that all the options can be set on one screen
which is a web based screen.
Purchasing Options 11i
Purchasing Options 11i
Purchasing Options 11i

Now Tax defaut tab is no more in the new

R12 page , Tax defaults are setup in E-
Business tax
Purchasing Options in R12
Receiving Options 11i
Receiving Options R12

The cost factor info is the new addition, here we can

check these check boxes depending on the
requirement
 Document Publishing
Enhancements
Description
Release 12.0, further enhances the 11i feature, which introduced the
ability to generate purchasing documents in Adobe PDF format.
-- Support for RTF and PDF layout templates
-- Publish Contracts using user specified layout
 Document Publishing
Enhancements
Benefits & Setups
-- Designing and configuring layouts in these formats is
extremely simple and straightforward.
-- Design layouts in RTF, PDF or XML formats
 Document Attachments to
Suppliers
• Description
Release 12.0 enables buyers to communicate all necessary document
attachments to suppliers.

Oracle Purchasing supports various types of file attachments (MS

Word, Excel, PDF etc) and also allow Zip file attachments with
maximum allowable size to minimize network traffic.
 Document Attachments to
Suppliers
Setups
-- Define Maximum Attachment Size on the Purchasing Options setup
page to control the checks performed while generating the ZIP file.

-- Define Email Attachment Filename on the Purchasing

Options setup page
 Support for Contractor
Purchasing Users
Description
Release 12.0 introduces support for contingent workers in the
procurement process to perform the same actions as
requesters and buyers who are employees.

Authorized contingent purchasing workers can raise

requisitions, conduct negotiations, and create and maintain
purchase orders.
Support for Contractor Purchasing
Users
Setups
-- Profile HR: Expand Role of Contingent Workers to be set
Yes
-- A contingent worker can take up normal ‘employee’ roles
only,
if the HR profile HR: HR_TREAT_CWK_AS_EMP is set
to Yes.
ThankYou