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Setup Suppliers on Oracle Exchange
The suppliers can setup their punchout definitions one time on Oracle Exchange. Then any
iProcurement administrator can download these definitions, which will automatically setup
the punchout from iProcurement to that supplier.
Note: See the chapter ‘Defining an Oracle Exchange Punchout’ for
details on setting up a supplier for punchout from an Oracle Exchange.
Setup Oracle Exchange as a Supplier Hub in iProcurement
The Oracle Exchange you want to use as a supplier hub must first be setup in iProcurement.
For details on the setup required, refer the implementation and installation section later in
this document
Setup Punchout Suppliers from Oracle Exchange in iProcurement
The iProcurement administrator logs on to the iProcurement eContent Manager and initiates
the process of setting up punchout suppliers they want to enable. iProcurement executes
‘PunchOutServlet’ which first establishes a secure connection with Oracle Exchange. Once
established, ‘PunchOutServlet then generates the ‘OEXLoginRequest’ XML document and
sends it to Oracle Exchange. After the iProcurement user is authenticated on Oracle
Exchange their browser is re-directed to Oracle Exchange, using the login URL provided in
the ‘LoginResponse’ XML. The iProcurement administrator selects the punchout suppliers
they want to enable in iProcurement. Oracle Exchange sends the suppliers’ setups to
iProcurement in the ‘SupplierSyncUpResponse’ XML document. iProcurement then
executes ‘PunchOutServlet’ which creates all the supplier punchout related setups in
iProcurement.
Part of this setup process includes the download of keywords the supplier has associated
with their company during their setup on Oracle Exchange. The first time a supplier is setup
in iProcurement these keywords will be downloaded into iProcurement. The iProcurement
customer can keep these keywords or change them to meet their own user’s needs. This
information is not downloaded from Oracle Exchange again.
Additional setup information maintained by the supplier on Oracle Exchange (such as their
punchout URL and site level user id and password) will remain on the Exchange. This is
referenced each time a punchout occurs, so the iProcurement administrator does not have to
maintain any supplier specific login details themselves.
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