The Negotiations Home page is the central point of access for all your negotiations. From here, you can respond to all public negotiations as well as those negotiations to which you have been specifically invited. You can also monitor negotiations in which you are participating and manage any draft responses you have. If you have Oracle Procurement Contracts installed, you can manage your contract deliverables from this page as well .
To search for negotiations to which you have been invited:
Check the Your Company's Open Invitations section on the Negotiations Home page for negotiations to which you have been invited. To access a negotiation, click its Number link. This will take you to the negotiation summary page from which you can perform additional tasks such as placing a response or viewing response history.
The Active and Draft section shows negotiations in which you are participating by either having placed an active response, or by having a draft response that is in progress. Note that this section only displays the five negotiations with the most current expiration date. To see the complete list of invitations, click Full List.
If your company has multiple sites that are known to the buyer who created the negotiation, a separate invitation might have been sent to each site. If this is the case, you may see multiple entries having the same negotiation number but associated with different sites. You can place a response on behalf of either or all sites.
To search for negotiations in which you are already participating or for which you have prepared a draft response:
Check the Your Active and Draft Responses section to see any negotiations in which you are currently participating or for which you have prepared draft responses.
The Response Status column shows whether you have an active response against this negotiation or whether you are in the process of drafting a response.
To see information on the negotiation, click the Negotiation Number link. This takes you to the negotiation summary page.
To see your current response or draft information, click the Response Number link. This takes you to the Details page.
Note that the Your Active and Draft Negotiations section display only shows a limited number of your responses according to the time remaining. To see all the active and draft responses for your company, click Full List.
To search for open negotiations in which to participate:
You can access any open negotiation even if you were not specifically invited. To find open negotiations, use the Search Negotiations fields at the top of the page. You can search by:
Negotiation title.
Negotiation number.
Negotiation creator (contact).
Line (negotiations for a particular item or service).
Category (negotiations with lines in this category).
Event (negotiations associated with this sourcing event).
Select a search parameter, enter a value for the parameter, and click Go. On the Active Negotiations page, you can
Select the negotiation and click Respond to create a response.
Click the negotiation number link to view details of the negotiation.
Click All Responses to view the responses to this negotiation.
Click "Your Company's Responses" to see details of any current responses from suppliers at your company.
Click "Unread Messages" to view any online discussion messages.