To be able to successfully conduct business on Oracle Sourcing, you must be able to quickly locate negotiations of interest. There are several ways to search depending on the kind of negotiation you are looking for.
To search for your active and draft responses:
If you are currently participating in a negotiation, or are in the process of preparing a response for a negotiation, information on your responses is displayed under Your Active and Draft Responses section of the Negotiations Home page. From this display, you can:
Click the negotiation number link to see details about the negotiation.
Click the response number link of an active response to see the details of your current response.
Click the response number link of a draft response to continue editing the draft.
To see a list of all your negotiations, click Full List.
To search for negotiations to which you've been invited:
If a buyer has invited you to participate in a negotiation, you will see an entry for that negotiation under Open Negotiations. To access a negotiation, click the Number link for that negotiation. You can see the details of the negotiation and decide whether or not to participate. To see a complete list of negotiations to which you have been invited, click Full List.
To search for all open negotiations:
In addition to the negotiations to which you have been specifically invited, there may be many other open negotiations which you may wish to investigate and participate in.
To search for all open negotiations, use the Search Negotiations fields at the top of the Negotiations Home page. You can search by Negotiation Title, Negotiation Number, Contact (the buyer who created the negotiation), Category (all negotiations having an item from that category value), Item (the item description) or Event (all negotiations associated with a Sourcing event .
After you have selected a search criteria and entered a search value, click Go. The Results: Negotiations page displays all negotiations that met your search criteria.
To access a negotiation, click the Number link. This will take you to the negotiation summary page. Here you can view information on the negotiation and submit a response.
Searching Lines Within a Large Negotiation Large negotiations typically have hundreds or thousands of negotiation lines. Scrolling through the lines display can be tedious and time-consuming for such a large number of lines. You can use the search function to view or process a selected subset of the total negotiation lines. This allows you to access and work with only those lines that meet your search criteria (for example, only lines whose items come from a particular category).
There are two fields that display line number information. Number of Lines specifies the aggregate number of all lines defined to the negotiation, including constituent lot lines and group lines. Last Line Number refers to the last independent and/or parent line number. Lines in lots and groups are numbered as children of their parent line number and so are not reflected in Last Line Number. This means there can be a difference between the two. For example, if you have a negotiation with many lots, the Last Line Number might be 200, while the Number of Lines might be 375
To search large negotiation lines:
On the Lines tab of the Create Response page, enter as many search criteria into the fields in the Search area as are necessary to define the set of lines you with to process. You can search on Line Number Category, Line Description and Item Number.
If you select "Show table data when all conditions are met," the lines retrieved must match each of the criteria you define.
If you select "Show table data when any conditions are met," the lines retrieved must meet as least one of the criteria you define, but not necessarily all.
You can add multiple search clauses by selecting an entry from the Add Another menu and clicking Add. This enables you to search for a range of items (for example, Item Number > 123 and Item Number < 789), or for items from more than one category.
After you have specified your search criteria, click Go to display the results.
Once the lines are displayed, you can process them as you normally would.
Note that if you use a search clause with the comparison type of Contains, Is Not, or Ends With, you must also include at least one search clause having a comparison type that is not one of the type just listed.