Sourcing Setup Step 2: Define System Profile Options (Required)

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Profile options are one way to control system processing. They can control resource usage as well as enable or disable certain application features. The following system profile options relate to Oracle Sourcing. Other profile options are involved with enabling integrations between Oracle Sourcing and other applications such as Oracle Procurement Contracts and Oracle Services Procurement:

• PO: Allow Autocreation of Oracle Sourcing Documents (Yes) enables buyers to use AutoCreate to generate draft auctions and Sourcing RFQs that can then be completed and awarded in Oracle Sourcing.

• PO: Display the Autocreated Document (Yes) allows Sourcing to launch automatically from Oracle Purchasing once your buyers have finished AutoCreating the draft sourcing document. Buyers must also have a responsibility that contains the Edit Draft Negotiation function.

• PON: Enable Sourcing Award Approval The Award Approval feature allows buyer to go through an approval process before creating a Purchase Order. Before using this functionality, you need to implement Oracle Approvals Management following instructions in the Implementing Oracle Approvals Management. Use a Transaction Type of Sourcing Award. And a DOCUMENT_TYPE of either BUYER_AUCTION, REQUEST_FOR_INFORMATION, or REQUEST_FOR_QUOTE. Afterwards, set PON: Enable Sourcing Award Approval to Yes.

• PON: Supplier Transaction History Time Period The system can search recent supplier transactions. Buyers can use this transaction history to research a supplier’s performance, for example, when identifying suppliers to invite to a particular negotiation. Set the PON: Supplier Transaction History. Time Period to a number to indicate the number of prior days the system should search for supplier transaction details.

• PON: External Application Framework Agent specifies a URL (typically outside your firewall) will be used for the links in notifications sent to suppliers. If this value is not specified, the system will use the applications frame work agent value assigned to the Sourcing Default Responsibility (See below).

• Sourcing Default Responsibility for External User Setting this profile option specifies the applications framework agent that will be used if the PON: External Applications Framework Agent profile option is not set (See above). 

• POA: DBI Implementation In addition to the reports available from Oracle Sourcing, if you have Oracle Daily Business Intelligence implemented, you can set POA: DBI Implementation to Yes to access additional reports from Oracle DBI.

• POS: External URL This profile option sets the URL included in notifications sent from the system.