Course Content

• Oracle Sourcing Functionality Overview

  • Understanding Key Business Flows of Oracle Sourcing

  • Contrasting Manual and Automatic Sourcing Systems

  • Identifying Key Productivity Benefits of Oracle Sourcing

  • Understanding the Oracle Sourcing Position Within the Oracle Advanced Procurement Product Family

• Oracle Sourcing Product Overview

  • Navigating Oracle Sourcing User Interface

  • Using the Buyer and Supplier Home Pages

  • Conducting Searches

  • Understanding the Functions of the Three Types of Sourcing Users

• Creating Negotiations

  • Outlining the Negotiation Process

  • Defining Header Information

  • Defining Negotiation Lines

  • Defining Negotiations Response Controls

  • Using Contract Terms

  • Inviting Suppliers to a Negotiation

  • Publishing a Negotiation

  • Identifying Additional Creation Methods

• Using Negotiation Attributes

  • Explaining the Usage of Negotiation Attributes

  • Defining and Using Requirements

  • Explaining Subjective Scoring

  • Defining and Using Line Attributes

  • Explaining Weighting and Scoring

  • Explaining How Price-to-Total-Score is Calculated and Used to Evaluate Responses

• Additional Creation Tools

  • Defining and Using Reusable Supplier Price Factors and Price Factor Lists

  • Performing Supplier Searches

  • Defining and Using Reusable Invitation Lists

  • Defining and Using Price Breaks and Price Tiers

  • Using Spreadsheet Upload for Header Attributes and Lines

  • Defining and Using Negotiation Document Templates

  • Defining and Using Negotiation Events

  • Defining Two-Stage RFQs

• Responding to Negotiations

  • Understanding the Differences Between Suppliers and Supplier Users

  • Explaining the Process for Registering Supplier Users

  • Outlining the Response Process

  • Searching for Negotiations

  • Entering and Submitting a Negotiation Response

  • Explaining Power and Proxy Bidding

  • Explaining Surrogate Bidding and Earnest Money Deposit while Bidding

  • Explaining How to Print Supplier's View of Negotiation

• Monitoring Negotiations

  • Understanding the Process To Monitor a Negotiation

  • Explaining Best Response and How Calculated

  • Explaining How to Use Live Console to Monitor Negotiation

  • Using the Count-Down Clock

  • Understanding How to Use Negotiation Amendments

  • Understanding the Multi Round Process

• Awarding Negotiations

  • Outlining the Award Process

  • Explaining How to Score Header Attributes

  • Explaining Different Award Methods

  • Explaining How to Use Award Optimization

  • Understanding How to Generate a Purchase Order

  • Explaining How to Allocate Requisitions Across Selected Suppliers

• Using Collaborative Messaging and Notifications

  • Explaining notifications used by Oracle Sourcing

  • Describing the use of Collaborative Messaging

• Using Forms and Abstracts

  • Understanding the Purpose for the System Abstract

  • Explaining How to Modify the Abstract

  • Describing Forms Usage

  • Implementing New Forms

• Using Transformational Bidding

  • Explaining the Usage of Buyer Price Factors

  • Explaining How Buyer Price Factors Affect Responses

  • Explaining Different Visibility Options for Transformed Responsesng

  • Defining Buyer Price Factors

• Processing Large Negotiations

  • Distinguishing between Regular and Large Negotiations

  • Identifying and Using Features available for Processing Large Negotiations

• Setting Up and Implementing Oracle Sourcing

  • Identifying Relevant Applications for Implementation Tasks

  • Identifying Additional Implementation Tasks

  • Outlining Required Steps to Implement Oracle Sourcing