Based on a web-based user interface, the Buyer's Work Center is a central desktop from which buyers can efficiently perform their daily tasks - such as viewing and acting upon requisition demand, creating and modifying orders and agreements, initiating negotiations if Oracle Sourcing is licensed and implemented, and managing the supply base.
The Buyer's Work Center provides you with the features you need to satisfy your document creation needs. You can:
Access requisition demand in the Demand Workbench and create procurement documents
Create a new standard purchase order, blanket purchase agreement, or contract purchase agreement
Update an existing standard purchase order, blanket purchase agreement, or contract purchase agreement
Create and maintain supplier information
If Oracle Sourcing is licensed and implemented, create buyer's auctions or sourcing RFQs
If Oracle Services Procurement is licensed and implemented, create and maintain purchase orders for complex work payments
If Oracle Procurement Contracts is licensed and implemented, author contract terms and manage deliverables
Use predefined document views
Create and personalize your own document views including list of columns, where conditions, and sort sequences
The Buyer's Work Center presents requisition demand in views that are easily customized to an individual buyer's way of working. These views allow buyers to quickly prioritize requisition demand based on a variety of factors, such as sourcing status or commodity.
The Buyer's Work Center simplifies the purchase order and long-term agreement creation and management processes. The purchase order flow streamlines data entry by enabling buyers to enter shipment and distribution information at the line level. It also enables you to enter shipment or distribution information without having to drill down. A separate agreements flow is tailored specifically for the strategic buyer, who is responsible for agreement maintenance and compliance.
Document styles allow procurement managers to control the look and feel of the application for different purchasing activities. For example, purchasing managers can create a document style for a specific commodity, such as temporary labor. This document style optimizes field labels and presentment for that commodity, simplifying purchase order entry.
Oracle Purchasing builds on the popularity of Oracle iProcurement's search capabilities by offering buyers a similar search interface to easily find the items they need to procure. In addition, an improved catalog display shows all relevant attributes in a user-friendly list with the ability to drill-down to further details.
If your organization has licensed and implemented Oracle Services Procurement, the Buyer's Work Center supports a complete and integrated solution to procure complex work and manage the long-term contact execution. Services procurement often involves the definition and adherence of advanced payment terms when defining the contact. This solution is designed for fixed price contracts with either interim progress payments based on cost or milestones.
Using Oracle Approvals Management (AME), you can route purchase orders and agreements created in Buyer Work Center for review, approval, and multiple e-signatures.
Oracle Purchasing provides the flexibility to add any individual or a group of individuals to the approval hierarchy (position or supervisor) so that purchase orders and global blanket purchase agreements can be routed for review, approval, and multiple e-signatures. To setup and use this feature, Oracle Purchasing provides an AME transaction type and workflow process. Depending on business requirements, Purchasing administrators can setup either parallel or serial process in AME for purchase order review, approval, and e-signature.
See: Using AME for Purchase Order Review, Approval, and Multiple E-Signatures
Buyer administrators can set default values for key attributes in Buyer Work Center purchase order documents using the Purchasing Preferences page available from the Preferences page, Purchasing Defaults link. The preferences set are applicable to the user-session only. See: Entering Preferences for Buyer Work Center Purchasing Documents
Oracle Purchasing enables buyers to add or modify Buyer Work Center purchase order lines, schedules, pay items, and distributions using the Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) integration with Microsoft Excel.
See: Buyer Work Center Purchase Orders and Oracle Web ADI
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