Oracle Fusion Procurement 26D: what's new
26D is the next Oracle Fusion Cloud quarterly update. Oracle's 26D What's New documents for this area list 91 features: 14 on by default, 23 on by default with potential setup, 40 setup required, 12 opt-in, 2 needing another action, per Oracle's "Action to Enable" column. See all 91 →
We track 25 Procurement changes in 26D, out of 91 features (our count) in Oracle's 26D 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 26D What's New · Self Service Procurement 26D What's New
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Former opt-ins now standard in 26D
From Oracle's Current Opt-In Expirations list: features whose opt-in period ends with 26D. If you already opted in and finished setup, nothing changes. Oracle's list groups these under its own Pillar column; here they are shown by product. All former opt-ins now standard in 26D →
| Feature (Oracle source) | Product · Module | Now enabled | What this means | Oracle scale (Impact to Existing Processes) | First delivered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood: Set up Supplier Registration and Profile Change Request | Procurement Common · Common Procurement | No | Set up if you want to use it | None | 26A |
Delivered switched on (25)
Handle date changes in contract lines as inline updates in purchase agreements
The Import Purchase Agreements from External Purchase Prices scheduled process can now handle start or end date changes in contract lines as inline updates to corresponding Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs).
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Larger scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Add payment details with a new address or site
The feature Redwood: Manage Supplier Profile is now enhanced to allow adding payment details on new supplier addresses and sites. When you create an address or site, you can also add related bank accounts, payment methods, and payment attributes as part of this update.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Enhance lifecycle management for intake requests
Improve visibility and control over intake requests with return and resubmit capabilities, template updates, and tracking document history. Requesters can change the template for draft or returned requests; the application creates a new request with the selected template and cancels the original request.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Manage contract user variable values in purchasing documents
Allow buyers to enter, update, and view contract user variable values for purchase orders, purchase agreements, and their change orders when using terms templates from Enterprise Contracts.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Process multiple purchasing document actions in real time
Process selected actions on purchasing documents in real time when the number of selected records is within the processing limit. Before this update, when you performed any action by selecting more than 1 purchase order or purchase agreement, the action was processed using a scheduled process.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Retain column personalizations for table layouts on Sourcing pages
Retain table column personalizations made through the table organizer on Sourcing pages. These personalizations include showing, hiding, and reordering columns.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Retain column personalizations for table layouts on Supplier Model pages
Retain table column personalizations made through the table organizer on Supplier Model pages. These personalizations include showing, hiding, and reordering columns.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Retain column personalizations for table layouts on Supplier Qualification Management pages
You can now retain table column personalizations made through the column organizer on Supplier Qualification Management pages. Column personalizations include showing, hiding and reordering columns.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Search purchase agreement lines while viewing or editing purchase agreements and change orders
Search purchase agreement lines using a new user experience when viewing or editing purchase agreements or their change orders. You can use keyword search and filters to quickly find matching lines in large purchase agreements, helping you locate information more efficiently.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Search purchasing documents by contract number
Search purchasing documents by contract number to improve contract visibility and make it easier to identify documents backed by a procurement contract. The Contract attribute is now displayed in the search results, helping buyers and suppliers quickly identify contract-backed purchasing documents without opening each record.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Selected Contracts Bug Fixes in This Update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way the application works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Selected Purchasing bug fixes in this update
This update includes some bug fixes that can change the way Oracle Purchasing works. This isn't a full list of all the bug fixes in this update.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Split budget-controlled requisition lines that aren't charged to projects
Split requisition lines that are subject to budgetary controls or encumbrance accounting provided that the requisition isn't charged to a project. As a buyer, when you take this action, the application creates new requisition lines, copies the original line data, unreserves funds on the original line, and attempts to reserve funds on the new lines.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
View negotiation and award approval history
View approval history during negotiation and award approval using the Redwood experience. This provides greater transparency into approvers, approval actions, comments, and status changes.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Display detailed error messages in requisition approvals
You can now see more detailed error messages when you view approver information for a requisition. When approver information isn't available, the application explains the reason and tells you what to do next.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Display intake request number on requisition lines
For requisitions created from intake requests, you can access the originating request while reviewing requisition information. This provides easy access to the original request and its context.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Enhance lifecycle management for intake requests
Improve visibility and control over intake requests with return and resubmit capabilities, template updates, and tracking document history. Requesters can change the template for draft or returned requests; the application creates a new request with the selected template and cancels the original request.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: None · Oracle source
Create intake requests for procurement contracts
Create intake requests for procurement contracts by configuring intake request templates with the procurement contract outcome. Configure the template controls that are relevant to your contract process, including contract type, primary party, payment terms, commercial terms, and contract dates.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Manage negotiation templates
Manage supplier negotiation templates in the Redwood experience. From the Negotiation Templates search page you can review templates, as well as create, update, and activate draft templates using a guided process.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Larger scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Search and filter requisition lines, purchase orders, and purchase agreements using descriptive flexfields
Search and filter results using descriptive flexfield segments on Process Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Purchase Agreements pages for buyers and suppliers using the new user experience.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Simulate award scenarios in the Sourcing Command Center
Use the award simulator in the Sourcing Command Center app to generate award scenarios based on your enterprise sourcing award policies. Apply your preferred scenario to finalize the award and create outcome documents.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Larger scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Create intake requests for procurement contracts
Create intake requests for procurement contracts by configuring intake request templates with the procurement contract outcome. Configure the template controls that are relevant to your contract process, including contract type, primary party, payment terms, commercial terms, and contract dates.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Display line type when viewing requisition lines
Requesters and preparers can now view the line type, such as Goods and Services, from both the Lines view of the My Requisitions page and the Lines table on the Requisition Details page.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Manage catalog administration tasks using a new user experience
As a catalog administrator, you can now manage catalog administration tasks from a centralized Catalog Administration landing page. You can review recently modified catalogs, quickly access frequently used setup tasks, search for catalog objects, and personalize the landing page with KPIs and visualizations.
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Manage catalogs
As a catalog administrator, you can now manage local, punchout, and informational catalogs using a new user experience. Access the new user experience to manage catalogs
Oracle's "Impact to Existing Processes": Small scale · Action to enable: Potential Setup · Oracle source
Needs setup or opt-in (0)
None among the changes we track.
All 91 Procurement features in Oracle's 26D What's New
Every row of the Feature Summary tables in Oracle's 26D What's New documents for this area, with Oracle's own "Impact to Existing Processes" and "Action to Enable" columns as Oracle states them: 14 on by default, 23 on by default with potential setup, 40 setup required, 12 opt-in, 2 needing another action. Oracle's legend: features whose impact is "None" are not delivered enabled and need steps to use; "Potential Setup" means there is prerequisite or optional configuration to consider. Each title links to Oracle's feature page.
By product: Procurement (60) · Self Service Procurement (31)
Procurement (60)
Self Service Procurement (31)
| Feature (Oracle title) | Module | Oracle scale (Impact to Existing Processes) | Action to Enable | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborate on procurement documents and intake requests using Microsoft Teams | Common Procurement | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Configure procurement business functions | Common Procurement | None | Opt In plus Setup | Opt-in |
| Create intake requests for procurement contracts | Common Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Intake Request Creation Assistant - Create and review with enhanced features | Common Procurement | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Integrate and extend procurement using REST resources | Common Procurement | None | REST APIs | Other action required |
| Manage outcome document mappings for intake requests | Common Procurement | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Enhance lifecycle management for intake requests | Common Procurement | Small scale | None | On by default |
| Display detailed error messages in requisition approvals | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Display intake request number on requisition lines | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Display line type when viewing requisition lines | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Manage catalog administration tasks using a new user experience | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Manage catalogs | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Manage content zones | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Manage information templates | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Manage smart forms | Self Service Procurement | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Procurement Request Concierge | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Purchase Requisition Creation Guide - Support multilingual interactions and display on-hand quantity for internal material transfers | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Purchase Requisition Status Advisor - Search experience improvements | Self Service Procurement | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Search for requesters and approvers using flexible keyword search | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Search for suppliers using a Contains search in requisitions | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Transfer items within the same organization for inventory destination requisitions | Self Service Procurement | None | Opt In | Opt-in |
| Use extensibility capabilities | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| View billing details directly on requisition lines | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | Potential Setup | On by default, potential setup |
| Save and reuse requisition searches | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | None | On by default |
| Search and add charge account combinations when editing requisitions and purchase orders | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | None | On by default |
| Selected Self Service Procurement bug fixes in this update | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | None | On by default |
| Use keyboard navigation for public shopping list line updates | Self Service Procurement | Small scale | None | On by default |
| Enable intra-organizational material transfers for transfer supply requests originating from Self Service Procurement | Supply Chain Orchestration | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Inventory on hand striping attributes for manual transfer supply requests in Supply Chain Orchestration | Supply Chain Orchestration | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Route inventory min-max planning and PAR replenishment purchase requests through procurement approval workflow | Supply Chain Orchestration | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
| Support minimum remaining shelf life for back-to-back transfer and on hand flows | Supply Chain Orchestration | None | Setup Required | Setup required |
More 26D: 26D hub: what's new and the opt-in list · All 136 tracked 26D changes · 26D what-to-test checklist · 26D former opt-ins now standard
Other module families in 26D: Financials · HCM · Logistics (OTM, GTM, WMS) · Project Management · Supply Chain & Manufacturing
Other releases: Procurement 26C · Procurement 26B
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