Approved Supplier Lists in Oracle

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Approved Supplier Lists in Oracle is the term used to describe a list of items and commodities that

have approved sources from a list of suppliers.


In Oracle , while setting up Approved Supplier Lists you can specify the manufacturer of the product,
the distributor of the product or a company that both sells and distributes. You must specify the name
of the supplier, you can optionally specify the site that you purchase from. For each Approved Supplier
Lists, you can specify whether it applies to the whole enterprise or a single facility.
Take a note, there is always one organization which is responsible for negotiating on behalf of
subsidiaries and operating units, this is called the 'Owning organization'.
Moreover ,you need to specify the unit of measure that will be used when creating purchase orders
and the method of creating releases against blanket orders, which could be any of the following:

Manual release through Autocreate

Automatic release in complete status (i.e. generate and approve PO)

Automatic release in incomplete status (i.e. generate PO and approve in separate step).

You can also create sourcing documents, supplier scheduling information and planning information for
each supplier in the Approved Supplier Lists.
Source documents specify the document type as either blanket orders or quotes. Blanket orders will
be used over quotes. The source document may be in an active or inactive status, and items may be
sourced from these documents between their effective dates.
Navigation for Approved Supplier List

PO Super User
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Supply base

N -> Approved Supplier List

Select the organization, then define the supplier for category or Item for which you want to define,
and status to approved.

The Business advantage with the Approved Supplier List (ASL)

You can manage sets approval (certification) status at the appropriate level for your business,
that may be yours approve suppliers, distributors, and manufacturers.

You can eliminate redundant sourcing efforts within departments ,cost centers and across
organizations

You can get facilitate a more global approach to contract negotiation.

You can define global or local ASL entries.

You can attach notes and external documents to each ASL entry.

You can link the primary supplier item number to your internal item number.

You can also do setup and define your own approval statuses and associate them with specific
business rules.

You can manage procurement activity by preventing purchase order approval or supplier
schedule confirmation for certain supplier/item combinations.

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