Buyer Work Center is a central launchpad from which requestors, buyers, contracting officers, contracting specialists and other users can efficiently perform their daily tasks - such as viewing and acting upon purchase requisition demand, creating and modifying awards and Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs), initiating solicitations (if Oracle Sourcing is licensed and implemented), and managing the supply base.
Buyer Work Center provides you with varied capabilities to satisfy your document creation needs. You can:
Access requisitions using the Demand Workbench and create purchasing documents using Document Builder
Note: Please note that you cannot create requisitions from Buyer Work Center, you can only view requisitions that have been created via interface or iProcurement.
Create and update new awards, Indefinite Delivery Vehicles (IDVs), Orders Referencing IDVs
If Oracle Sourcing is licensed and implemented, create solicitations
If Oracle Services Procurement is licensed and implemented, create and maintain awards 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
Create and maintain supplier information
You can copy CLM documents to other CLM documents, however you cannot copy a CLM document to a non-FAR document.
Note: Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Consigned Inventory are not supported in CLM.
Buyer Work Center consists of the following tabs (pages) and sub-tabs.
Requisitions
Demand Workbench
Summary
Amendments
Assignments
Awards
IDVs (Indefinite Delivery Vehicles)
Deliverables
Negotiations
Suppliers
Contract Administration
Contract File
Protests
An overview of these tabs is in the following sections.
Two new menus called View Awards and View Purchasing Documents enable you to view CLM document details. When an award is viewed using these menus, you cannot modify the CLM document. Additionally, you cannot create any new documents using these menus.
View Awards and View Purchasing Documents menus provide view-only access to users who do not have a CLM Purchasing responsibility or who are not buyers. These menus need to be added to the responsibility for those users who need view-only access.