R12.2 Procurement: How to replace seeded FAQ

Check out MOS document ID 2132795.1 for "How can we replace seeded FAQs in iProcurement home page in Purchasing News Section with Business specific FAQs." for the official Oracle documentation on how to customize the PORFAQSS.htm file to fit your needs!

Weekend Learning: iProcurement Catalog Enhancement Requests

An item you will definitely want to bookmark in My Oracle Support is "iProcurement Enhancement Request - Catalog Shopping" in note ID 1452878.1 for 11.5.7 to 12.1.3 versions of EBS which you can refer back to when a problem crops up so you can see if there are workarounds or patches that can be applied!

R12.2.3 Procurement: No backend server available for connection error message due to performance issue

If you are on EBS R12.2.3 or planning on going to it, make sure you add into your testing suite the issue detailed in article "Performance When Searching Items To Receive In iProcurement: No Backend Server Available For Connection" which note ID 2054046.1 tells us is due to an incorrect index and what patches are available to resolve the issue.

Weekend Learning: iProcurement and Oracle Exchange supported SSL certifications

Do you know "Which Type Of Certificates Are Supported By Oracle Exchange And iProcurement Punchout. Does It Support SHA 256RSA ?"  If you answered no, then check out note 1999543.1 on My Oracle Support to find out the answer and learn if you need to be making extensive plans to test and work with your suppliers/vendors and what conditions require different certification paths!

Weekend Learning: Procurement upgrade steps from 11.5.10

As there are many moving parts in an R12 upgrade, note "Upgrade: Steps To Execute In iProcurement Before Upgrading to Release 12, 12.1 or 12.2 From 11.5.10" via article ID 1481255.1 on MOS might be helpful if you are in that phase of your project investigation.

Weekend Learning: Procurement Accrual Accounting Analyzer

Check out document ID 1969667.1 on MOS "EBS Procurement Accrual Accounting Analyzer" and download this new analyzer to run it at least once so you can see if there are any outstanding issues that need fixing in your environment.  After you find out, then make sure to convert this into a concurrent request so you can keep on top of any issues that might popup before they become critical issues!

Weekend Learning: Troubleshooting PDF errors in Procurement

Today I share with you a document from MOS about "How to Diagnose and Resolve the ‘System failed to generate the PDF’ or 'PDF Document Generation Failure' errors in Procurement" which you can find via article ID 1520871.1 and is very detailed from the forms to archiving options to patching to troubleshooting and A LOT of other links to articles on MOS that you may find relevant down the road.

R12.1.3 Purchasing: In Process requisitions can be cancelled causing problems

Check out MOS note ID 1987669.1 for article "Functionality Of Cancelling 'In Process' Requisitions In iProcurement And Core Purchasing" to find out if you have a mismatch in your application between Core Purchasing forms and iProcurement allowing a requisition to be cancelled incorrectly.

Procurement approval not being updated correctly

Were you aware that there is a new AME related problem with Procurement approvals?  My Oracle Support leads us to the document "iProcurement Approval Action Is Not Updated Correctly" by way of article ID 1956448.1 that tells us about a problem that happens when an approver acts after being the second person delegated to in the hierarchy.

Weekend Learning: Oracle iProcurement - Information Center

Tonight is your chance to learn more about Oracle Procurement by visiting the My Oracle Support note "Information Center: Oracle iProcurement" from document ID 1381102.2!  Bookmark this for an analyzer tool for Procurement items and the latest patch updates all on top of the usual knowledge, troubleshooting and problem solving notes we find in these Product Information Centers!

R12.1.3: AME approval list out of sequence

Were you aware that the AME approval order for iProcurement is wrong on certain R12.1.3 patch sets?  The MOS article "Approval List Sequence Is Not Sorted Properly" via note ID 1561967.1 has all the details how to replicate the issue, impact, cause and which patches resolve the problem.

Weekend Learning: New and changed features for Procurement in R12.1.3 and beyond

Do you know how the Procurement module has changed in the latest R12 EBS releases?  Well look no further than this note from My Oracle Support "Procurement R12.1.3+ New and Changed Features" via ID 1607297.1!  Favorite this article since that + sign means the article will keep being updated with new features with new releases and RUPs too.

Weekend Learning: Procurement Personalization Index

If you have dealt with the EBS application for a while, you know that there are several different ways of creating personalizations in the application and what can be personalized is different in each module that you work in.  The My Oracle Support document rather simply named "Procurement Personalization Index" in note 1553987.1 has a plethora of information related directly to Procurement but also a lot of general information that will be interesting to you if this is something you always wanted to know about.

R12 Procurement Update

For those of you heading to R12, our spotlight on the EBS Support blog has several articles you should read about Procurement.  First, the new look of Procurement with the Buyer Work Center which provides a one-stop shop for Buyers so they can perform their daily tasks all in one place with ease.  Next, primarily for DBAs, are articles on several invalid R12 objects which are the cause of at least 25 known issues for Procurement and a new Rollup Patch for Procurement Approvals and AME which is not included in the RPCs I posted about yesterday.

Purchasing R12 RUP patches

From this post, the latest and greatest Procurement Family 12.1.3 Rollup Patch 15843459:R12.PRC_PF.B was released at the end of March which may resolve some issues you are facing in your current 12.1.3 environment or may help avoid issues if you are just starting to work on an upgrade.