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 Accelerate B2B Adoption With Suppliers Using
Oracle Business Network Connectivity
Fusion Procurement Cloud

Piyush Singh, Mark Peachey, Alan Ng

Product Management
Fusion Applications Development

November 2021

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 Agenda

• Introduction to OBN
• NEW! Intelligent OBN connectivity for new suppliers
• Existing Features
- OBN trading partner connectivity for an existing supplier
- Creating OBN account through Oracle Cloud
- Trading Partner registration on OBN
• Roadmap
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 Oracle Business Network
Delivering Connectivity to a Trading Partner Community

Trading Partners
PSFT
EBS
Oracle Customers
Buyers
Fusion Suppliers
Cloud Single Connection Oracle Business Network Single Connection

3rd Party
Networks

Fusion Cloud

• Electronic business document delivery platform (est. 2005)

• One connection per Trading Partner to access the entire network
• No fees or charges - all Trading Partners participate for free
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 Exchanging Documents with Oracle Business Network
Today: Procure-to-Pay Cycle Support

Oracle Oracle Trading

Single Connection Single Connection
Customer Business Network Partners

Fusion Cloud

RECEIVE
cXML
SEND

Purchase Order
Change (PO) Order
Cancel PO EBS/Psft
OAGIS, cXML

Supported XML Formats: OAGIS 7.2.1 , cXML 1.2.007

Fusion Cloud
RECEIVE

PO Ack

SEND
cXML Change PO / Cancel PO
Advanced Shipping Notice
EBS/Psft Invoice
OAGIS, cXML Catalog

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Procurement Cloud: Intelligent OBN Connectivity
Streamline Electronic Messaging Collaboration
Fusion Cloud

• Enhanced Supplier Management onboarding flows

- Register
- Create
• Type-ahead matching pulls company identity from
Oracle DataFox global directory (DF-ID)
- No Oracle DataFox subscription required Dunder Mifflin
DF-ID

• Automatic check on OBN for Trading Partner with

matching DF-ID
• Option to Intelligent Connect & send new relationship
request to Trading Partner Oracle Business
Network
- Automatic B2B messaging configuration
• Supplier connected to one Oracle customer for B2B
>> becomes available to **any** Oracle customer DF-ID

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Intelligent OBN Connectivity for New Suppliers

• Why?
• No visibility if new supplier is on OBN
• B2B messaging setup is complex with manual steps
• How?
• Create supplier from Oracle DataFox global directory which checks supplier’s OBN status
• If supplier is on OBN, user is alerted to enable B2B when setting up sites
• B2B documents are auto-populated from the supplier’s OBN account
• What?
• Smart identification of suppliers available on OBN
• Seamless B2B messaging setup with OBN for new suppliers

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Intelligent OBN Connectivity for New Suppliers: Contd.

• Create Supplier & Register Supplier

• Feature available for new suppliers that are either created or registered
• Company must be selected from the suggestion list (powered by Oracle DataFox)

• Create Supplier Site

• Recommendation to enable B2B messaging
• Automatic document setup
• Connection Request
• OBN trading partner request automatically sent to supplier

• Opt In
• Use Opt In to enable feature, no Oracle DataFox subscription required
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Intelligent OBN Connectivity for New Suppliers: Contd.

• Support for non OBN service providers in 22A update

• No restriction on the opt-in based on service providers
• Manually select and add the B2B documents

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OBN Trading Partner Connectivity for an Existing Supplier

• Setup B2B messaging for an existing supplier

• Ensure supplier registers on OBN and completes the setup
• Manually search and select the trading partner to enable B2B
messaging

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Creating OBN Account Through Oracle Cloud

• Customers can create a new OBN account directly from Fusion Cloud
• Request will be processed and approved immediately
• Option to Create Connection for customers with an existing OBN
account

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Collaboration Messaging: Manage Tasks
Manage Collaboration
Messaging Service
Providers

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Manage Service Providers
Manage Collaboration
Messaging Service
Providers

Edit Oracle Business

Network

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Select Account Setup
Manage Collaboration
Messaging Service
Providers

Edit Oracle Business

Network

Select Create Account

in Setup

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Enter Company Details
Manage Collaboration
Messaging Service
Providers

Edit Oracle Business

Network

Select Create Account

in Setup

Submit Account
Details

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Create Connection using existing OBN Account Details
Manage Collaboration
Messaging Service
Providers

Edit Oracle Business

Network

Select Create Account

in Setup

Submit Account
Details

Alternate: Create
Connection for
Existing OBN Account

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Updated OBN Onboarding
Synch to Oracle DataFox for non-Oracle Trading Partner Registration

21C Enhancement

Updated registration flow for onboarding

(non-Oracle) Trading Partners for Fusion,
EBS & Peoplesoft customers
Type-ahead matching to Oracle DataFox
company profiles (DF-ID)
Advanced Search option
Manual registration if company profile
not present on Oracle DataFox

Oracle

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Roadmap

• External registration
• Automatically discover existing suppliers with OBN accounts

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References

• Oracle Procurement Cloud 21D What’s New

Link

• Better B2B Collaboration with Oracle Business Network: Event

Recording
Link

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Thank You

Piyush Singh, Mark Peachey, Alan Ng

Product Management
Fusion Applications Development
Accelerate B2B Adoption With Suppliers Using
Oracle Business Network Connectivity

Appendix
 Oracle DataFox (Acquired Oct-2018)
Creates Precise, Dynamic Firmographic and Signals Data
AI-Based Matching & Firmographic Data
ML-Based Anomaly Deduplication Engine • Name
Detection • Description
• Location
• Headcount
NLP-Based • Keywords
• Industries
Data Creation • Hierarchies
• NLP Structuring of
Web Data
Signals Data
• API Stream Ingestion • Growth
• RSS Feeds • Financial
• People
ML-Based Signal • Recognition
Detection • Events
• Corp Updates
• Risk signals
1 billion 8.8 million 2.2 million 21 million 7000+
Data Points Sourced Websites Scanned New Businesses Added Signals Processed Newsfeeds Processed in Realtime

P E R Y E A R
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