Procurement

Oracle Procurement Cloud

Functional Comparison - Procurement Cloud vs EBS Procurement

EBS Description	Translates to Procurement Cloud
Operating Unit	Business Unit
Oracle iSupplier Portal	Oracle Supplier Portal Cloud
Oracle Supplier Management	Oracle Sourcing Cloud
Oracle Procurement Contracts	Oracle Procurement Cloud/ Enterprise Contract Management
Oracle iProcurement	Oracle Self Service Procurement Cloud
Supplier Part Number	Map Set (Approx.)

(Only the functionalities that are substantially different/ enhanced have been mentioned)

Criterion	Cloud Applications (Release 13 - 21C)	EBS Applications (Release 12.1.x & above)	Cloud Improvement Metrics	Rationale for Score
Functionalities : Gaining efficiencies by having efficient business processes supported by Cloud
Approval Process	Configure approval rules easily with granular controls. Example: Based on PO line and schedule status Based on any segment of charge account Flexible Approval notifications Flexible approval notifications From and cc email IDs	Could be configured using AME code/ configuration or workflow customizations	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Potentially eliminates need for workaround for 90% of use cases
Blanket Purchase Agreement Amount Validation	Prevents issuing purchase orders against the agreement once the amount limit has been reached	Line amount and quantity were the drivers to allow releases to be created	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Enables better monitoring and control on consumption against Blanket Agreement
Contract Authoring	Integration with MS Word provides ease in creating/ updating/ managing contracts	This feature is not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Brings unstructured data in Contract document into the system
Spend Classification	It can be used to review spend data (requisitions, purchase orders and invoices) to either refine the accuracy of its current categorization or assign a category for transactions that are unclassified. Spend data can be reclassified using upto five different taxonomies	This functionality was not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Provides insight into spending, allowing better visibility and control
Supplier Address Validation	Smart Data enables to validate/ autofill supplier address for most geographies. Helps maintain accurate supplier data	This feature is not available in Oracle Purchasing	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Significant improvement in data governance
Duplicate Check	Provides an ability to check for same or similar supplier/ customer while creating a new supplier to minimise creation of duplicates	This feature is not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Minimize the need for supplier merges and other corrective actions
Auction	Supports both forwards (where price increases and contract is awarded to highest bidder) and reverse auctions (where prices are reduced and the contract is awarded to lowest bidder), along with visibility using analytics, dashboard and notification of the auction process	Only reverse auction is supported	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Organizations using forward auctions can now use the system
Accounting	Uses Transaction Account Definition (TAD) for configuring accounting that needs to happen	Uses Account Generator workflow	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Generates accurate accounting resulting in fewer adjustment journals
Requisition Routing	Provide assignment of a purchase requisition to a buyer, dynamically based on rules	Only default/ suggested buyer can be assigned by the requestor	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Eliminates the need for manual routing and monitoring
Complex Work Purchase Order	Purchase Order using this PO type allows to create and link PO to payment schedule based on either rate or lumpsum	Purchase order was not linked to payment schedule	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Better coordination between Purchasing and Payables department for schedule based payments. Creation of these PO is available using REST services but not with FBDI
Supplier Management	Configure approvals for changes to key supplier master data elements by internal or external (supplier) users	This feature is not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Significant improvement in data governance
Retainage	Model the common practice of retainage (withholding payments until contractual obligations are met) prevalent in the Construction industry from RFQ all the way to AP invoicing	This feature is not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Limited business scenarios (Construction industry)
Manufacturer Part Numbers	Manufacturer and manufacturer part number is available on PO lines	This feature is not available	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Limited use cases
Migrations/ Conversion : Quick and reliable path to cloud
Purchase Order Conversion	MS Excel based templates have been provided	Standard forms to key in the text manually	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Faster migration to cloud with simplified conversion process
Supplier Conversion	MS Excel based templates have been provided	Standard forms to key in the text manually	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance
Reporting and Analytics : Easy, advanced visualizations
Reports	Unacknowledged PO - OTBI based reports to see how many orders are yet to be acknowledged by the suppliers	Limited standard reports availability and requires development of custom reports	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance	Fusion applications provide high level of flexibility to maximize the use of data using actionable graphs & drill down reports
Reports	Highly flexible reporting providing excellent data visualization are available using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI).
Dashboard	User interactive and actionable dashboards are easily configurable	No standard dashboard available in application	Improves Efficiency Process Improvement Improves Data Integrity Eliminates Extension/ Workarounds Improves Compliance