Defining Credit Analysts

Credit analysts assist in the resolution of credit-related issues and evaluate the creditworthiness of your customers and prospects. Credit analysts can view credit applications and case folders in Oracle Credit Management, and can submit recommendations after concluding a credit analysis.

You must define employees as credit analysts and credit managers before they have access to view and update data in Credit Management.

Note: In addition to defining true credit personnel as credit analysts and credit managers, you can also assign the role of credit analyst to other interested parties who require view-only access to credit applications. For example, a sales representative who initiates a credit review request by submitting a lease application might want to view the credit application details.

To define credit analysts:

  1. First define your credit analysts as employees in Oracle Human Resources Management System (HRMS).

    See: People Management Overview.

  2. Next, import employees from HRMS into Resource Manager and assign roles.

    Two seeded roles exist for Credit Management:

    Note: A credit manager has access to setup functionality. You can assign the credit manager role to a credit analyst.

    See: Overview of Setting Up Resource Manager, Oracle Trading Community Architecture Administration Guide and Overview of the Oracle Resource Manager.

  3. Finally, when defining your analysts as E-Business Suite users in the Users window, link each analyst to his or her HRMS record by selecting:

    See: Users Window.

After you define a credit analyst, you can modify any of the analyst's information, except the employee and user names.

Suggestion: Non-employees can also initiate (from an application outside Credit Management) the creation of credit applications. Non-employees are users who are not in Oracle HRMS and who are not assigned a credit analyst role in Resource Manager. For example, a non-employee might be a vendor or a contractor. To enable this integration, the passing application must send the requestor_type of FND_USER and the requestor_id of FND_USER_ID to Credit Management when calling the Credit Request API.

See the Credit Management API User Notes appendix in the Oracle Credit Management User Guide.