This course is designed primarily for buyers, finance staff, and systems administrators who will be involved in catalog administration tasks in Oracle iProcurement. The Oracle R12 iProcurement Super User course will be helpful to delegates from organisations which have adopted a devolved approach to purchasing where many iProcurement users have no other requirement for access to Oracle Financials.

• Creating a Local Store
• Sequencing Stores
• Create a Local Content Zone
• Assigning Local Content Zone
• Adding Internal Items
• Uploading Supplier Items from a template
• Reviewing or Amending Base Descriptors
• Creating and Editing Item Descriptors
• Creating Item Categories
• Managing Category Hierarchies
• Mapping Categories in PO and iProcurement
• Creating Smart Forms
• Creating Information Templates
• Creating Validation Sets
• Reviewing key set ups for Punchout, Transparent Punchout
• Reviewing key set ups for Oracle Exchange

Session 1: OVERVIEW OF ORACLE iPROCUREMENT

• Introduction
• Oracle iProcurement in the Procure to Pay Flow
• Content Management
• Shopping and Checkout

Session 2: STORES

• Store types
• Creating Local Stores
• Sequencing Stores
• Test Stores Set Up

Session 3: CONTENT ZONES

• Content Zone Types
• Create a Local Content Zone
• Content Zone Security
• Assign Content Zone to a Store
• Create an Informational Content Zone
• Delete a Content Zone
• Content Zone Schema
• Create Item Categories
• Create Browsing Categories
• Add or Remove Category Mapping

Session 4: ADDING INTERNAL ITEMS

• Introduction
• Raising Blanket Purchase Agreements

Session 5: UPLOADING ITEMS FROM CATALOG ADMINISTRATION

• Introduction
• Raising Blanket Purchase Agreements
• Downloading Resource Files
• Completing the Template
• Uploading the Template
• Monitor and Test the Upload

Session 6: DESCRIPTORS

• Base Descriptors
• Add Edit or Delete a Base Descriptor
• Hide the Images in Search Results
• Category Descriptors
• Add Edit or Delete a Category Descriptor

Session 7: SMART FORMS

• Create a Smart Form
• Enter Header information
• Enter Default Item and Supplier Details
• Assign an Information Template
• Assign Smart Forms to a Store
• Edit Copy or Delete a Smart Form
• Define an Information Template
• Create Template Association
• Create Validation Sets
• Test Set Up

Session 8: PUNCHOUT OVERVIEW

• Overview of Punchout and Transparent Punchout
• Oracle Exchange
• Punchout
• Transparent Punchout
• Double Punchout
• Set up Steps for the Buyer

Session 9: IPROCUREMENT EXERCISES

• FPOR12, Oracle R12 Purchasing (PO)
• FAPR12, Oracle R12 Accounts Payable