The document provides an overview and demonstration of Oracle Sourcing, an application for online sourcing and procurement. It outlines the key steps in an RFQ process from creation and publishing to supplier response, evaluation, and award. It also notes some limitations, including an inability to update existing purchase orders and a lack of APIs to integrate with external systems.

1. Sourcing 11.5.10 Dharmalingam K S, PMP Procurement Professional Community Hot Topic Presentation 09-May-2006

4. Sourcing Flow & Advantages Source More of Your Spend Source for Lowest Total Cost Create Immediate and Long-Term Savings Structured Event Support Cross-Functional Collaboration Knowledge Capture / Re-use Total Cost Analysis* Real Time Decision Support* Enterprise Integration Rapid Deployment Change Management Automated Negotiations, Bid Mgmt and Award* Make Savings Stick Identify Opportunities & Suppliers Conduct On-Line Negotiations Analyze & Award Approve & Issue Define Strategies & Negotiations Integration * Requires Sourcing Optimization Purchasing Contract Mgmt Finance Marketing Other Operations

12. Intelligence

13. Administration

14. Negotiation Configuration

16. Create Form

18. RFQ Line Summary Once navigated to Lines page, the RFQ is saved to the table

19. RFQ Line Creation No internal attribute type – only Required, Optional, Display Only Multi Attribute scoring for Quantity & Need by to date

20. Scoring Criteria

21. Controls

22. Contract Terms Available only when Oracle Procurement Contracts is licensed & implemented

23. Create Deliverable

25. Add Supplier

26. Add Suppliers from Invitation List

27. Publish Negotiation

28. Supplier Sourcing Home Page

29. Supplier’s Action Menu in RFQ

30. Supplier’s Worklist

31. Supplier Notification

32. Supplier participation acknowledgement from worklist Workflow response becomes the participation acknowledgement

33. Supplier’s Online Discussion

34. Unread message in Buyer’s Negotiation Home Page

35. Create Quote

36. Price Factors

37. Line Price & Quote Price

38. Buyer’s Action Menu

39. Close RFQ

40. New Round If Sourcing RFQ is created from requisitions, then the requisition is returned to the pool on creating new round

41. Award by Quote

42. Score Entry

43. Award Multiple Lines Note lot is grouped and shown as one element

44. Award Quote

45. Award By Line

46. Graph Price/Score by Time

47. Graph Price by Score

48. Award

49. Line Comparison

52. Create PO The workflow background process with the item type ‘Sourcing Complete Auction’ needs to be scheduled to run @ a frequency depending on the rate of publishing the RFQ. This workflow calls the standard ‘Create PO’ workflow to create the PO.

53. PO Summary All the price factors would come as line level attachments

56. Data Flow in Sourcing Tables

57. Thank You A Q &