Suppliers Added to Trading Community Architecture

Suppliers Added to Trading Community Architecture ( TCA ):-
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In Release 12, Suppliers are defined as Trading Community Architecture (TCA) parties.
During the upgrade, TCA party records are created and updated for all suppliers, they
are linked back to their records in the supplier entities and the payment and banking
details are migrated into the Oracle Payments data model. The supplier, supplier site,
and supplier contacts tables are obsolete and replaced with views that join information
from the old tables with information in TCA.

TCA Party Creation for Suppliers

During the upgrade, Oracle Payables creates new parties in TCA for all suppliers that
do not have existing party information. The parties are created with a party usage of
supplier. Country and address information is required for parties in the TCA data
model, so if there is no country or address line 1 specified for a supplier site, Oracle
Payables derives the country based on the most frequently used operating unit of the
supplier's historical transactions. E-Business Tax uses the country information when
you elect to calculate tax based on ship-from or bill-from location criteria. Please
confirm your setup of parties before you elect to use this E-Business Tax feature.

Also during the upgrade, Oracle Payables reviews the supplier sites and determines
duplicates, based on the supplier, address, city, county, province, state, country, zip and
language. Oracle Payables then creates only one Party Site for each distinct supplier site
address.

Suppliers created using Oracle Trade Management, Oracle Transportation
Management, and Oracle iSupplier Portal have existing party information. During the
upgrade, Oracle Payables updates the existing party in TCA with the Taxpayer ID from
the supplier record, if it is different from the one in TCA.

TCA Party Creation for Employees

In prior releases, employees were defined and linked to a supplier record in order for
Oracle Payables to create payments for their expense reports. Employees defined in
Oracle Human Resources and associated with an Oracle Payables supplier record have
existing party information. During the upgrade, Oracle Payables updates the existing
party information to have a party usage of supplier. Oracle Payables does not migrate
the employee address to the party site in TCA, they remain in Oracle Human Resources
for data security reasons.

Migration of Other Supplier Attributes

In Release 11i, you could record the relationship between a franchise or subsidiary and
its parent company by recording a value for the Parent Supplier field in the Suppliers
window. During the Release 12 upgrade, this information is migrated into the party
relationships model of TCA.