Overview of Oracle Purchasing | Oracle Purchasing | Oracle Apps R12
By Jag - October 21, 2014
Oracle Purchasing is a comprehensive procurement solution designed to:
- Help purchasing professionals reduce administration costs
- Process requisitions, purchase orders, requests for quotation, and receipts quickly and efficiently.
- Enable you to focus on:
- Value Analysis
- Development of strategic supplier relationships
- Management of the procurement process
Oracle Purchasing satisfies the following business needs:
- Replaces paper processing with online requisition generation, purchase-order creation, and document approval.
- Regulates document access, controls modification activity and approval, and is based on organizational signature and security policies.
- Minimizes data entry time with item-saving templates.
- Controls purchasing activity and enables accurate, automatic pricing using approved suppliers and supplier lists.
- Consolidates purchase requirements from multiple warehouses, plants or locations.
- Enables negotiating from a position of strength based on easy access to purchase volume statistics and supplier performance reports.
- Facilitates communication between requesters, buyers, receiving staff, and accounts payable staff using online enquiries, attachments and notes.
- Provides related functions, such as marketing, finance, master scheduling, inventory management, production, cost accounting, and customer order entry with access to purchasing information.
- Manages historical purchasing data.
Benefits:
- Automate the Entire Procure-to-Pay Cycle: Define suppliers and agreements; then automate your entire purchasing cycle from purchase order to settlement.
- Improve Supply Base Management: Take central control of all supplier and item master information with an application that tightly integrate suppliers into your organization by leveraging advanced supply management capabilities
- Adapt to Any Purchasing Practice: Adapt the application to your organization's purchasing practices with uniquely configurable policies and an open architecture that integrates legacy and supplier systems
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