Health Check for Oracle Procurement in EBS

The Procurement Health Check will provide the client with some suggestions on how to improve or fix their existing issues. In addition, the client will be given some suggestions on how to avoid long term issues, suggestions for better business process, improvement on efficiency, and quick win solutions by leveraging some unused functionality.

This Health Check will include:
A review of the company’s business process flow at a high level such as the purchase requisition process, purchase order process, supplier sourcing process.
A review of the customer’s pain points and bottleneck issues.
An analysis of high level gap/fit of procurement process flows.
A review of current requisition handling practices such as: planned order requisitions, manual requisitions, and internal requisitions. Some aspects would include:

• Requisitions generated by planning systems
• Drop ship requisitions from sales orders
• Manual requisitions; components, preferences, defaults

A review of current purchase order practices including auto creating from requisitions and manual purchase orders. Some aspects would include:

• Autocreate
• Standard purchase orders
• Blanket agreements and releases
• Contract orders
• Change orders / revisions
• Global agreements

A review of current sourcing processes: such as quotations, and approved supplier lists. Some aspects would include:

• Request for quotation and quotations
• Supplier item catalog
• Sourcing rules and assignments
• Approved supplier lists and sourcing documents

A review of current purchasing document approval practices. Some aspects would include:

• Position hierarchy, employee / supervisor, approvals management engine
• Change control tolerances
• Approval workflows

A review of current receiving practices. Some aspects would include:

• Receipts
• Inspection
• Corrections
• Return to vendor
• Receipt accounting and accruals

A review of internet procurement practices such as: iSupplier and iProcurement. Some aspects include:

• Oracle Supplier Network
• iSupplier portal
• iProcurement catalogs and punchouts
• Sourcing and supplier management

Contact us about a health check for Oracle EBS Procurement