managing supplier attachments in oracle slm

Jan 27, 2011 Managing Supplier Attachment using Supplier User-Defined Attribute Draft Version 2.0

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Managing Supplier Attachments using Supplier User-Defined Attribute

Products Applicable: E-Business Suite R12.1 Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Oracle

Supplier Hub (SH)

The below provides details as to how to setup to enable linking and managing the Supplier Attachments

to a Supplier User Defined Attribute in Oracle Supplier Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Oracle Supplier

Hub (SH).

1. Define a Value Set Name Supplier_Attachments, Description Supplier Attachments, Data Type

Number, Validation Type Table, List Type List of Values. Define details as shown below in the

screenshots.


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Table Name: FND_ATTACHED_DOCUMENTS A, FND_DOCUMENTS_TL DTL, FND_DOCUMENTS D

Value Column

Name: DTL.DESCRIPTION

Type: Char

Size: 50

ID Column

Name: A.ATTACHED_DOCUMENT_ID

Type: Number

Size: 40

Where Clause

DTL.LANGUAGE = userenv('LANG') AND A.DOCUMENT_ID = DTL.DOCUMENT_ID AND D.DOCUMENT_ID =

A.DOCUMENT_ID AND ((A.ENTITY_NAME = 'PO_VENDORS' AND A.PK1_VALUE = (SELECT S.VENDOR_ID

FROM AP_SUPPLIERS S WHERE S.PARTY_ID = :$OBJECT$.PARTY_ID )) OR (A.ENTITY_NAME =

'POS_SUPP_REG' AND A.PK1_VALUE = :$OBJECT$.PARTY_ID ))


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2. Define another Value Set for various document attachment categories as shown below in the

screenshot (define you own document attachment categories).

3. Define a Multi Row Attribute Group Business_Reference_Documents with attributes and setup

as shown below in the screenshot. Associate the Supplier_Attachment value set defined earlier

to the numeric attribute Supplier_Attachment which has a display as Attachment. Similarly

associate the doc_type value set defined earlier to the char attribute Business_Document_Type


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group to a user defined attribute page. for example, Business

4. Associate the attribute group at the ‘Common’ association level. And associate the attribute


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5. Add the Supplier attachment: Suppliers (via self service portal) or internal users can upload

supplier related documents either as part of the new/prospect supplier registration request or

later as part of profile information update to the Supplier master record.

Step 1 Upload Attachment

Step 2


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Note: Ensure the Attribute Page associated with the Attribute Group used for linking the

Supplier Attachment is enabled for the new supplier request from the Onboarding configuration

setup.

Step 3 Link Attachment to User

Defined Attribute


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Step 1 Upload Attachment

Step 2 Click the Attribute Page tab

Step 3 Link Attachment to User Defined Attribute