Profile options are one way to control system processing.

They can control resource usage as well

as enable or disable certain application features. The following system profile options relate to
Oracle Sourcing. Other profile options are involved with enabling integrations between Oracle
Sourcing and other applications such as Oracle Procurement Contracts and Oracle Services
Procurement.

 Setting the option PO: Allow Autocreation of Oracle Sourcing Documents to Yes
enables buyers to use AutoCreate to generate draft auctions and Sourcing RFQs that can
then be completed and awarded in Oracle Sourcing.
 Setting the option PO: Display the Autocreated Document to Yes allows Sourcing to
launch automatically from Oracle Purchasing once your buyers have finished AutoCreating
the draft sourcing document. Buyers must also have a responsibility that contains the Edit
Draft Negotiation function.

 The Award Approval feature allows buyer to go through an approval process before
creating a Purchase Order. Before using this functionality, you need to implement Oracle
Approvals Management following instructions in the Implementing Oracle Approvals
Management. Afterwards, set PON: Enable Sourcing Award Approval to Yes.

 The system can search recent supplier transactions. Buyers can use this transaction history
to research a supplier's performance, for example, when identifying suppliers to invite to a
particular negotiation. Set the PON: Supplier Transaction History Time Period to a
number to indicate the number of prior days the system should search for supplier
transaction details.

 PON: Automatically Default Catalog Attributes Determines the type of catalog

attributes Oracle Sourcing automatically adds to a negotiation line when a shopping
category is selected.

o All - both base and category descriptors are added to the linė

o Base - only base descriptors are added to the line.

o Category - only category descriptors are added to the line.

o None - no descriptors are automatically added to the line.

 PON:External Application Framework Agent specifies a URL (typically outside your

firewall) will be used for the links in notifications sent to suppliers.

 In addition to the reports available from Oracle Sourcing, if you have Oracle Daily Business
Intelligence implemented, you can set POA: DBI Implementation to Yes to access
additional reports from Oracle DBI.

 The POS: External URL is used to construct the link to supplier registration page as well
as the external abstract page.

 Set the Self-Service Accessibility Features to None to enable rich-text capabilities

when defining Requirements.

 Sourcing Default Responsibility for External User specifies the responsibility that will
be assigned to any external user whose registration is initiated from Oracle Sourcing.