Oracle Fusion Procurement 26B: what changed
We track 25 Procurement changes in 26B, out of 76 features (our count) in Oracle's 26B What's New documents for this area. 25 of them are delivered switched on; 0 need setup or an opt-in before anyone can use them.
Oracle sources: Procurement 26B What's New · Self Service Procurement 26B What's New
Impact ratings are our editorial view of how much a change affects day-to-day users and testing. Always confirm details on the linked Oracle page.
Former opt-ins now standard in 26B
From Oracle's Current Opt-In Expirations list: features whose opt-in period ended with 26B. If you already opted in and finished setup, nothing changes. All former opt-ins now standard in 26B →
None in Oracle's list.
Delivered switched on (25)
AI Agent: Configuration Advisor
Use an AI agent to help you identify the optimal configuration for a configured item according to your inputs. Use the agent to compare two or more configurations and select the best one.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Redwood: Add Ad Hoc Approvers on Purchasing Documents at Additional Positions
In Redwood Purchasing, you can now add ad hoc approvers at more points in the approval hierarchy when submitting POs and agreements: at the start of the task, or the start or end of a stage.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Add Lines from a Catalog to Purchase Orders and Agreements as a Buyer
As a buyer, you can now directly add products or services from the catalog to purchase orders and purchase agreements using the Add from Catalog action. This makes it easier to add lines to a purchase order from an existing blanket purchase agreement and streamlines your ordering process.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Award by Spreadsheet and Add Award Attachments
You can now add award attachments to your negotiation from the Award Analysis Dashboard. You may attach supporting documents to justify your award decision or include them with the purchasing documentation.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Redwood: Collaborate with Catalog Administrators and Suppliers on Catalog Authoring
Collaborate on catalog authoring using a Redwood page. You can transfer a draft blanket purchase agreement to the catalog administrator or supplier to collaborate in the purchase agreement creation.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Create and Edit Purchase Orders with Supply Chain Financial Orchestration
Create and edit purchase orders with supply chain financial orchestration using a Redwood page. The sold-to legal entity on the purchase order is now automatically derived from an eligible financial orchestration flow.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Edit Delivery Information on Multiple Purchase Order Schedules
Select multiple schedules on the Purchase Orders page to edit delivery information for those schedules. You can update the delivery dates, requester, and deliver-to location details.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Manage Purchase Agreements as a Catalog Administrator
Manage purchase agreements from a Redwood page as a catalog administrator. You can now add content to agreements pending catalog authoring, and search and filter purchase agreements and lines using keywords and specific filters.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Process Credit Requisition Lines into Purchase Orders
Process requisition lines with negative amounts into purchase orders using a Redwood page. Before this update, credit lines could only be added directly to the purchase order.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Recalculate the Latest Purchase Order Prices from Blanket Agreement Lines
Recalculate the latest purchase order price from the associated blanket purchase agreement line when editing the purchase order using a Redwood page as a requester, buyer, or supplier.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Renegotiate Blanket Purchase Agreements
Create negotiations from approved blanket purchase agreements using a Redwood page as a buyer. To start a negotiation, go to the Redwood Purchase Agreement pages and select the Create Negotiation option.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Upload Agreement Lines
Upload lines to blanket purchase agreements from a Redwood page as a buyer, catalog administrator, or supplier. You can upload lines during agreement authoring and when creating an agreement change order.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Use Additional Capabilities in Negotiations
More Sourcing features in the Redwood pages: export and import requirements by spreadsheet for draft negotiations, view requirement details from scoring and analysis pages, response revision settings, and a minimum decrement per line in auctions.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: View an Expired Status for Inactive Purchase Agreements
Search and view purchase agreements that have passed their end date by using the expired status. Agreements with past end dates are now marked as expired.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Selected Procurement Contracts and Enterprise Contracts Bug Fixes in This Update
Oracle's list of 26B Procurement Contracts and Enterprise Contracts fixes that change behavior. For example, purchasing documents for large contracts can now be created with a scheduled process instead of only in real time.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Selected Purchasing Bug Fixes in This Update
Oracle's list of 26B Purchasing fixes that change behavior, for example document history is now shown for withdrawn and rejected POs on Redwood pages, and the expiring, overutilized and underutilized agreement filters no longer return draft agreements.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
AI Agent: Configuration Advisor
Use an AI agent to help you identify the optimal configuration for a configured item according to your inputs. Use the agent to compare two or more configurations and select the best one.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Add Approvers on Requisitions at Additional Positions During Shopping Checkout
You can now add and manage ad hoc approvers at additional positions in the default approval hierarchy during shopping checkout in the Redwood Self Service Procurement application.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Redwood: Duplicate a Purchase Order or Its Lines When Editing the Purchase Order
In Redwood Purchasing, you can duplicate a purchase order or its lines while editing it, and duplicate change order lines, including all their schedules and distributions.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Navigate to Source Agreements from a Purchase Order
Use the source agreement link to drill down into backing blanket and contract purchase agreements when viewing purchase orders as a buyer or supplier. Before this update, the source agreement was just plain text.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Search When Editing Purchase Orders
Search purchase order lines, schedules, and distributions when editing an initial purchase order or change order. You can use keyword search and filters to quickly find matching records on large documents.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Support Business Rules for Business Classifications in Supplier Registration
Visual Builder Studio business rules now cover the Business Classifications page of supplier registration, so you can make fields required, read-only or hidden by criteria such as country or industry.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: Use Extensibility Capabilities
Redwood Purchasing extensibility now covers defaulting PO and agreement attributes with business rules, personalizing attachments and default attachment categories, project DFFs on distributions, and the View PDF action.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Redwood: View Budget Details with Funds Check Results
The funds check result details have been updated to include a Budget view that displays control budget details, such as total budget, total consumed from the budget, budget balance, and other relevant information.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Use Supply Chain Orchestration to Support Contract Manufacturing for Process Manufacturing In Your Plan-to-Produce Flows
Oracle Supply Chain Planning will send a planned order to Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration, then Supply Chain Orchestration will create a process work order to track the manufacturing progress at the contract manufacturers facility and a purchase order on the contract manufacturer to pay for the manufacturing services.
Oracle's own impact label: Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Needs setup or opt-in (0)
None among the changes we track.
More 26B: All 134 tracked 26B changes · 26B what-to-test checklist · 26B former opt-ins now standard
Other module families in 26B: Financials · HCM · Logistics (OTM, GTM, WMS) · Project Management · Supply Chain & Manufacturing
Other releases: Procurement 26C
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