CHAPTER 13Procurement Management

Oracle Purchasing is the procurement and supply management solution. It has functionality to serve the requisitioner who needs a pencil as well as the procurement manager who is sourcing a component supplier through Request for Quotes (RFQs) and negotiating long-term agreements. The procurement system is also fed from the planning systems that request material for production. It is tightly integrated with Oracle Workflow, routing requisitions and purchase orders up an approval chain. Purchasing has embedded alerting mechanisms that will inform purchasing managers when long-term agreements are coming to an end. Oracle Purchasing includes the flip side of the Release Management product in Supplier Scheduling. It ...

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