Sourcing Setup Step 3: Assign Sourcing Responsibilities (Required)

System Administrator: Security-> Responsibility -> Define

Assign your users the responsibilities they need to perform their jobs. As you assign a user a responsibility, make sure that each buyer’s HR profile contains a first name, last name, and e-mail address.

The Sourcing Super User, Sourcing Buyer, and Sourcing Supplier responsibilities come predefined with most of the necessary job functions. However, you can create customized responsibilities using the job functions available. 

The following job functions (among others) come predefined to the Sourcing Super User and the Sourcing Buyer responsibilities. 

Function	Description	Seeded in Super User	Seeded in Buyer	Seeded in Team Member
Award My Negotiations	Users can make award decisions for negotiations they created.	Yes	Yes	No
Unlock Sealed Negotiations	Users can unlock any sealed negotiations.	Yes	Yes	No
Unseal Sealed Negotiations	Users can unseal any sealed negotiations.	Yes	Yes	No
Publish Negotiation	Users can publish negotiations.	Yes	Yes	No

The following job functions are assigned to the Sourcing Super User but not to the

Sourcing Buyer. You will need to explicitly grant them to buyers

Function	Description	Seeded in Super User	Seeded in Buyer	Seeded in Team Member
Award Others’ Negotiations	Users can make award decisions for negotiations created by other users	Yes	No	No
Manage Draft Sourcing Documents	Users can edit, delete, and publish any draft negotiations.	Yes	No	No

Granting Collaboration Team Management Capabilities:

Collaboration Teams allow groups of buyers within an organization to work together to create and manage a negotiation. The following function allows collaboration members to add and/or delete other members from the team (the owner of the negotiation has this ability by default). Users who have been defined to the team, have been assigned this function, and are not restricted to view-only access, can manage the make-up of the collaboration team. 

This function is seeded for the Sourcing Super User; you must explicitly grant this job function to your buyers as appropriate.

Function	Description	Seeded in Super User	Seeded in Buyer	Seeded in Team Member
Manage Collaboration Team	Users can manage the collaboration team for negotiations that they can access.	Yes	No	No

• Grant your buyers the Sourcing Buyer responsibility.

• Grant any users who will be maintaining the Oracle Sourcing system the Sourcing Super User responsibility.

Note: If any responsibilities have been customized, ensure that the

Sourcing Supplier responsibility does not contain any functions which

belong only to the Sourcing Buyer or the Sourcing Super User.