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What’s new in R12 Purchasing? Agenda:  Buyer’s Workbench Centre  Document management  iProcurement enhancements  Approval Support  Web-based features

Requisition & Purchase Order Management  Buyer’s Workbench Centre:  Intuitive User Interface  Streamlined Workflow  Flexible Personalization

Intuitive User Interface New  A New Buyer’s Work Center Provides a Central Location For Purchasing Information Access Purchasing Documents in a Few Clicks

Intuitive User Interface New  A New Buyer’s Work Center Provides a Central Location For Purchasing Information Hyperlink To Related Documents

Intuitive User Interface New  A New Buyer’s Work Center Provides a Central Location For Purchasing Information Use Documents Modification Tools Seamlessly

Intuitive User Interface New  A New Buyer’s Work Center Provides a Central Location For Purchasing Information Create New Documents Easily

Intuitive User Interface  Views Provide Immediate Access to Relevant Information Personalized Views are Easily Created to Meet Individual, Operating Unit, or Organization Needs.

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View Select Personalize

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View Duplicate an Existing View or Create a View Using Your Criteria.

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View Defaults

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View Specify Sorting Preferences

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View Apply Relevant Filters

Intuitive User Interface  Create a Personalized View  Seeded Views Cannot be Altered through the Interface  Newly Rendered Fields Are Visible After Being Enabled in the Application

Intuitive User Interface  Finding Specific Requisition Types  Forms Require Additional, Non-Intuitive Steps  Views Quickly Provide Search Results

Intuitive User Interface  Using Forms to Find Urgent Requisitions Select AutoCreate

Intuitive User Interface  Using Forms to Find Urgent Requisitions Select the Status Tab

Intuitive User Interface  Using Forms to Find Urgent Requisitions Select Find Change Urgent To Yes

Intuitive User Interface  Using a View to Find Urgent Requisitions Select the Urgent Requisition View And Go.

Intuitive User Interface  Using a View to Find Urgent Requisitions

Intuitive User Interface  Use Views to Quickly Find Multiple Document Types  Late Requisitions  Unassigned Requisitions  Requisitions Requiring an RFQ  Suggested Supplier  Requisitions for Goods  Requisitions for Services  New Suppliers  Criteria You Specify with a Personalized View

Streamlined Workflow  Modify Documents Easily  Integrated Tools Allow Intuitive, Easy Document Modification  Streamlined Work Processes Increase Productivity

Streamlined Workflow  Modify Documents Easily Replace with a Catalog Item* Replace with Your Favorites* Split the Requisition Add To/Create New Documents Return to Requestor Reassign to Another Buyer * New Features in Release 12

Streamlined Workflows  Return Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center

Streamlined Workflows  Return Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center

Streamlined Workflow  Reassign Unassigned Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center Select the Unassigned Requisitions View

Streamlined Workflow  Reassign Unassigned Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center

Streamlined Workflow  Reassign Unassigned Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center Specify New Buyer & Apply Changes

Streamlined Workflow  Splitting a Requisition  The Original Line is Split Into Additional Lines Previously Split Lines Can Be Split Again When Needed Splitting More Than Two Ways is Possible Using Forms  The Original Line Item Is Flagged As Modified and Does Not Reflect on the Books

Streamlined Workflow  Split a Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center Select the Split Icon on the Desired Requisitions Line

Streamlined Workflow  Split a Requisition Using the Buyer’s Work Center Enter New Quantities and Save

Streamlined Workflow  Replace With a Catalog Item/Catalog Favorite Select Replace with Catalog Item Icon

Flexible Personalization  Customizable to Meet Business Needs  Built on Same Framework as iProcurement, iService, iExpense, etc.  Show Result Fields Relevant to individual Procedures  Hide Irrelevant Result Fields  Create Custom Views with Specific Information

Requisition Management  Release 12 offers more efficient ways to manage demand  Views provide access to relevant information  Integrated tools streamline workflow processes  Customization offers a tailored interface to meet business needs

iProcurement Enhancements Improved Content Management  Enhanced catalog authoring  Supplier authored content thru iSupplier  Difference summary for catalog changes  Unified catalog  Approval, revision control & archive for catalog data – global agreements  Content security

Advanced Approval Support Expanded & enhanced integration with Oracle Approvals Management  Position based hierarchy approvals  Parallel approvals  FYI notifications

New Web-based Setups Tolerance setups

New Web-based Setups (Cont’d)

Other enhancements  Multi Org Access Control (MOAC)  Document publishing  E-Business Tax  More…

Questions?

Thank you! Andy Stakiw