Catalog Agreement Management

Oracle iProcurement : Catalog Agreement Management :-
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Bulk-loaded items in iProcurement will be migrated to newly created Global Blanket
Procurement Agreements (GBPA) based on their Supplier, Supplier Site, Currency,
Operating Unit, and Contract Reference. From the iProcurement Catalog
Administration responsibility, there will be a summary of all newly created GBPAs for
bulk-loaded items. There will also be a data-exceptions report that lists all the
exceptions that prevent migration of bulk-loaded content to new GBPAs. For more
details on how to correct these exceptions, refer to the iProcurement Preupgrade steps
in the Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12.

The following is a list of changes in Release 12 as a result of the catalog upgrade:

• The upgrade will migrate bulk-loaded items into GBPAs. Release 12 , users will
load content into a GBPA and they will no longer need to provide Supplier,
Supplier Site, Operating Unit, and CPA/GCPA reference in the file. The bulk-load
option will also be available for BPAs and quotes.

• In Release 12, users will not be able to load catalog content for all Operating Units.
Please refer to the Oracle Purchasing Implementation guide for more details on
assigning GBPAs to Operating Units.

• Approved Supplier's Lists (ASLs) will not be shown in iProcurement search results.
In Release 12, the Oracle Purchasing Sourcing Rule will be used to determine the
best Supplier and Supplier Site combination during the requisition creation process.

• The bulk-load file format in Release 12 has been changed. A Converter has been
provided for users to convert old files to Release 12 format.

• In Release 12, users will not need to run the extractor to update the catalog content.
It will be updated in real-time.