Oracle Procurement Cloud Service 2016 Implementation

Essentials Exam Study Guide

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Target Audience
Oracle Procurement Cloud Service 2016 Implementation Essentials is for individuals who have implementation
experience at an intermediate level. It is not intended for beginners.

Job Role:

Senior or Principal Procurement Consultant

Solution Consultant transitioning to an Implementation Consultant role

Level of Competency:

Candidates should have at least1-2 years of Cloud Procurement implementation experience.

Participants should possess good knowledge of key technologies like: Cloud Procurement functionalities
Deep experience in at least one other Oracle product family is highly recommended.

Exam Topics
The Oracle Procurement Cloud Service 2016 Implementation Essentials exam covers 11 topics:

1 Procurement Application Overview

2 Fusion Functional Setup Manager
3 Common Applications for Procurement
4 Common Procurement
5 Purchasing
6 Self Service Procurement
7 Supplier Portal
8 Sourcing
9 Reporting and Business Intelligence for Procurement
10 Supplier Qualification Management (SQM)
11 Procurement Contract

Levels of Knowledge
Each exam topic contains objectives and each objective is categorized as either a learner or practitioner level
of knowledge.

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Learner items test foundational grasp and Example:
require product comprehension (not
When setting up price list modifiers in Advanced Pricing, which
recognition or memorization).
three steps must be completed in order to successfully activate
surcharge and price break features?

Practitioner items present on-the-job Example:

scenarios and require the ability to: integrate
1) You are creating price list modifiers in Advanced Pricing.
and apply knowledge in new contexts, analyze
Your customer has three requirements: X, Y, Z. Identify the two
and troubleshoot complex issues, and solve
steps that must be completed in order to meet those requirements.
problems.
2) You are running a two-instance database with six redo
logs defined. You decide to add a third thread to support a
third database instance, on the third node of the cluster.

Using command line administration, which two commands will

you execute to achieve this?

Training Options
Throughout the study guide each exam topic recommends one or several training/documentation titles:

Recommended Training
Online Training - recorded or live virtual training sessions
OPN Boot Camps - a combination of classroom lectures, hands-on lab exercises, and case studies
Oracle University Training - instructor-led in-class training, live virtual class, on-demand training
Oracle PTS Training*

(* based on qualifying criteria)

Recommended Documentation
Oracle Documentation product manual in on-line format
User and implementation guides are publicly available on the Help Center:
Product tutorials - on-line information on how to use the product
Datasheets and white papers - documents that summarize the performance and other technical characteristics of a
product, machine, component
Books product information written text that published in printed or electronic form

While the Oracle Partner Network facilitates free access to online training, in class trainings often require a fee.

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Exam Details per Topic
This section covers details associated to all exam topics such as: exam topics overview, objectives, levels of knowledge,
recommended trainings and sample questions. Specialization exams include all application functionalities not only the
most frequently used ones.

Topic 1: Procurement Application Overview

Objective Level
Explain Procurement architecture and components Learner
Explain simplified Procure to Pay flow Learner
Explain Procurement applications integration Learner

Sample Questions

Your customer organization is headquartered in Singapore and has 3 manufacturing facilities

in China, Taiwan and Hongkong. The raw material for these 3 manufacturing units are
clubbed and procured from China through China Procurement Division. How will you model
this in Fusion Procurement?
A. Requisitioning BU: China, Taiwan, Hongkong and Procurement BU: Singapore
B. Requisitioning BU: Singapore, Taiwan, Hongkong and Procurement BU: China
C. Requisitioning BU: Singapore and Procurement BU: China
D. Requisitioning BU: Singapore and Procurement BU: Singapore
E. Requisitioning BU: China, Taiwan, Hongkong and Procurement BU: China
Correct Answer: E

Your customer has several Procurement centers across the world. During implementation, the
customer wants to implement the same payment terms policy for all the Business units.
Identify the correct approach to fulfill this customer requirement in the application using
Functional Setup Manager.
A. Define same payment terms across all Business Units

B. Define Payment Terms and assign those to one reference object. Then assign
that reference object to all Business Units for reference object Payment Terms
C. Use Common reference object for all Business Units
D. Define Payment Terms in each business unit and assign those to different reference objects
specific to those Business Units?
Correct Answer: B

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Topic 2: Use Fusion Functional Set Up Manager

Objective Level
Explain the Application implementation lifecycle Learner
Explain Functional Set Up Enterprise Roles Learner
Plan an implementation Practitioner
Configure offerings Practitioner
Generate Set Up Task lists, Offerings, and Options Practitioner
Assign Tasks to users Practitioner
Manage implementation projects Practitioner

Sample Questions

An automobile manufacturer is implementing only Cloud Purchasing from the Cloud

Procurement suite of products. Identify the setup component that will NOT be required
while configuring the system
A. Procurement Business Function
B. Document Styles
C. Procurement Agents
D. Negotiation Styles
E. Purchasing Line Types

Correct Answer: D

During your fusion procurement implementation one of the requirements of your customer is
to accrue the expenses on receipt. To fulfill this requirement, you have been asked to setup
Expense Accruals to accrue At Receipt. Where will you configure this flag ?

A. Common Payables and procurement options for Procurement business unit

B. Configure requisitioning business function for requisitioning business unit

C. Configure procurement business function for procurement business unit

D. Supplier site assignment for the supplier site

E. Common Payables and procurement options for Sold-to Business unit

Correct Answer: E

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Topic 3: Common Applications for Procurement

Objective Level
Explain Enterprise Structures Learner

Practitioner
Configure Applications security, Job roles, Duty roles, and Privileges
Practitioner
Define Business Units, common Payables, Procurement options, and
Approval Management for Procurement

Sample Questions

Your customer has a requirement that whenever an employee who is an approver of

documents like blanket agreements or purchase order goes on vacation, the
administrator should be able to provide an alternate approval route for the documents
being submitted by the employees subordinates. Identify the rule which is required to be
setup to achieve this:
A. Modified rule in document approval task
B. Substitute rule in document approval task
C. Re-assign the approval task by providing alternate id of a new approver
D. Document approval
Correct Answer: B

During you Fusion procurement implementation there are 3 business units. All 3 business
units are going to perform requisitioning function. Your customer requires that one
procurement business unit is configured as the shared procurement business unit. Identify the
setup that will configure the one business unit with procurement business function
A. The procurement business unit must be defined before the requisition business units
B. Orchestration Agreement need to be defined between requisitioning business unit and
procurement business unit
C. Payables business function must be assigned in addition to procurement business function

D. The procurement business unit need to be configured as a service provider

to requisitioning business unit
E. The procurement business unit must be assigned with requisitioning business function
in order for it to be a shared services center

Correct Answer: D

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Topic4: Configure common Procurement
Objective Level
Manage Supplier configuration and Supplier site assignment Practitioner
Define Payment Terms, UOM, Carriers, and Hazard Clauses Learner
Define a Supplier Business classification lookup, Supplier Products, and the Services hierarchy Learner
Define Freight Lookups, purchasing profile options, and Approved Supplier-
-list statuses Practitioner

Sample Questions

Oracle Cloud applications provide a set of predefined Job Roles which can be assigned to users
for performing specific activities/operations. Identify the two job roles that can be defined for
Cloud Procurement users?

A. Sourcing Project Collaborator

B. Procurement Agent
C. Procurement Contracts Administrator
D. Procurement Administrator
Correct Answer: A, C

The business units in your organization are set up with a Client-Service Provider relationship.
Requesters from the requisition(client) business units need to utilize a blanket agreement for
automatic creation of purchase orders for their requisitions. Identify the configuration that
needs to be used by the buyer who is creating the blanket agreement to be made available to
other requisitioning business units for purchases against their requisitions.

A. Setup Profile Option: Automatically generate orders

B. Enable flag Automatically generate orders in configure procurement business function for
the procurement business unit

C. Enable flag Automatically generate orders in each client business unit

D. Enable flag Automatically generate orders in control tab of blanket

purchase agreement

E. Enable flag Automatically generate orders in the purchase order when buyer submits it

Correct Answer: D

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Topic 5: Configure Purchasing

Objective Level
Define Purchase Document Configuration and Document Styles Learner

Define Business Unit Function configuration, Configure Procurement Business Unit, Learner
Document types, Change Order template
Learner
Define Receiving Parameters for Purchasing
Practitioner
Create Line Types and Change Orders, and assign Procurement Practitioner
agents Set up Budgetary Control and Encumbrance accounting
Practitioner
Set up Financial Orchestration Flow driven Procurement Set Practitioner
up Procurement of Consigned Inventory from Supplier

Sample Questions

Your customer wanted to change the Need-by-date of an open Purchase Order and initiated an
external change order for the same purpose. The request is being reviewed by the supplier.
What would be the status of the Purchase Order and the Change Order?
A. Purchase Order Open; Change Order- Open
B. Purchase Order Open; Change Order- Pending Supplier Acknowledgement
C. Purchase Order Pending Supplier Acknowledgement; Change Order- Pending Supplier
Acknowledgement
D. Purchase Order Pending Supplier Acknowledgement; Change Order- Open
Correct Answer: B

During a Cloud Procurement implementation, you have gathered the required details for
setting up approvals for blanket purchase agreements. Identify the task under which you will
need to configure the business rules setup in approval management system:
A. Requisition approval task
B. Purchasing document management task
C. Manage Purchasing Document Approval
D. Blanket agreement approval task.
E. Purchasing agreement approval task
Correct Answer: B

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Topic6: Configure Self Service Procurement

Objective Level
Explain Self Service Procurement Learner

Manage Profile Options, Catalog categories, Content Maps, and configure Requisitioning Practitioner
Business Functions
Practitioner
Create Public Shopping Lists, Smart Forms, Catalog-Category Hierarchies, Templates and
Punch Out
Practitioner
Configure Requisition approvals

Sample Questions

A Buyer is creating a Purchase Requisition using 'Catalog Superstore' and intends to

compare items prior to adding them to shopping list. Identify the maximum number of items
that are allowed by the application to the Buyer for a side-by-side item comparison?

A. 3
B. 6
C. 5
D. 7
Correct Answer: C

In an implementation, the Purchase Requisition users are requesting that they want to receive
the purchase orders created for their requisitions. Identify the correct functionality related to
this requirement in Cloud Procurement:

A. Requesters cannot receive Purchase Orders

B. Requesters need to be assigned the Warehouse Manager or Receiver role in order to receive
Purchase Orders

C. Requesters can receive Purchase Orders using Self Service Receiving

D. Requesters need to be assigned Purchasing Agent role in order to receive Purchase Orders

Correct Answer: C

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Topic 7: Register Supplier Portal

Objective Level
Explain objectives, Portal Setup, and maintenance Learner

Define Portal Registration, Supplier Provisioning, Default Roles Practitioner

Supplier business classification, internal and external supplier registrations Learner

Sample Questions

Identify the THREE functions that a Buying Organization is able to perform after
it provides its Suppliers the access to the Supplier Portal :

A. Evaluate prospective suppliers by routing their registrations through a collaborative

review process using a flexible rules engine.

B. Collect information about prospective suppliers through a self-guided registration

flow.

C. Consolidate suppliers and supplier sites to clean up duplicate suppliers or support supplier
acquisitions.

D. Import supplier data and related entities.

E. Create Negotiation flow internally on behalf of prospective suppliers.

Correct Answer: A, B and E

In an implementation the user would like to send the External registration link to their
potential suppliers who will be using the Supplier Portal. Where will the user find this link?

A. In Functional Setup Manager, user should navigate to the Configure Procurement

Business Function task and select appropriate Business Unit to find this link

B. Under Supplier Master, the link is available in the menu

C. In Functional Setup Manager, user should navigate to the Configure Procurement and
Payables Options task and select appropriate Business Unit

D. The External registration link cannot be shared with any potential suppliers
Correct Answer: A

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Topic 8: Configure Sourcing

Objective Level
Explain Sourcing configuration objectives Learner

Use Negotiation styles and Templates Practitioner

Create Cost Factors, Attribute lists, Negotiation lookups, and Negotiation lists Practitioner

Configure Negotiation and Award Approval, Surrogate Bidding, Online Message, Practitioner
Notification Summary, and two-stage RFQ

Sample Questions

Identify the Three entities from which a Negotiation can be created

A. Requisition Lines

B. Purchase Order Lines

C. Expiring Blanket Purchase Agreement

D. Outcome of another Negotiations

E. Supplier Registration Request

Correct Answer: A, C and D

During an implementation of Cloud Sourcing, the users are performing user acceptance
testing and entering contract terms in the terms library from different remote locations.
There are occasions when same mistakes are being repeated by the users and the project team
needs to do a lot of coordination to eliminate the errors. Identify the system help that the users
can utilize so that they enter only the correct contract terms in the Terms library, validate
those, correct those and use those in the contract?

A. Users need to share the terms before input to the system

B. Users need to download the terms in word format and run the spell/ grammar check

C. Users need to run Contract library Tool to check the correctness

D. Users need to run Contract Expert which will identify the mistakes and red
line the items

Correct Answer: D

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Topic 9: Explain Reporting and Business Intelligence for Procurement

Objective Level
Explain Reporting and Business Intelligence for Procurement Learner

Configure of OTBI , RTF Templates for POs, PRs, Dashboard metrics, and graphs in Practitioner
Purchasing workareas and Sourcing

Sample Questions

Name the OTBI (Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence) KPI that indicates the
count of approved requisitions where at least one of the requisition lines is assigned to the
current login user and that requisition line is not implemented into an order, bucketed by
the number of days elapsed since the requisition was approved.

A. Requisition Lines in Process Count

B. Requisition Lines Volume Count

C. Requisition Line Aging Count

D. Requisition Aging Count

E. Requisition Lines Cycle Time

Correct Answer: D

During an implementation, the Buyers will like to access the OTBI reports that are available
in the Cloud Purchasing application. Identify the way to provide them easy access to
Purchasing related OTBI reports?

A. Enable the OTBI reports in Purchasing workarea

B. Train the buyers to navigate to Functional Setup Manager to access the reports

C. Ask the buyer to run Scheduled Process to run the OTBI reports for Purchasing

D. Train the users to navigate to Business Intelligence applications to access the reports
Correct Answer: A

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Topic 10: Supplier Qualification Management(SQM)

Objective Level
Configure SQM, create Questions, Qualification Areas, and Models Practitioner

Set up SQM Processes and manage Transactions, including Initiatives, Responses, Practitioner
Evaluation of Assessments, and Qualifications

Sample Questions

Identify the three sources from which Supplier Qualification Management gathers the
required data (supplier information)

A. Qualification questionnaires

B. Sourcing bids

C. Profile updates

D. Legacy systems

E. Expired Contracts
Answer: A, B, C

As a Supplier Qualification administrator, you have asked the suppliers to provide details of
Product and services offered by them by logging in to the Supplier Portal. How will you
configure so that the external supplier users can provide feedback on their Product and
Services?

A. Configure a question with attribute as Product and Services and ask the supplier user to
attach the details while answering the question.

B. Configure a question and ask the supplier to enter text against the selected Product and Service
from Supplier Master

C. Configure an open question so that supplier can enter Product and Services offered by them

D. Configure a question and list all the Product and services and ask the supplier to respond
by entering details.

Correct Answer: A

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Topic 11: Procurement Contract

Objective Level
Configure a Contract Terms Library Practitioner

Create Contract Terms, Procurement Contract, Approvals, and Contract Fulfillment Practitioner

Sample Questions

Identify the statement that is not valid for Oracle Cloud Procurement Contracts

A. The Contracts terms template defines pre-approved boiler plate for the type and
circumstances for the contract

B. The Contracts terms template drives rules to help you follow company policy

C. Allows you to capture any change in Terms & Conditions of Contract in MS Word

D. Allows you to publish Contracts on Social Networks

Correct Answer: D

During a Procurement Contract Implementation, the customer would like to setup approvals
for procurement contract documents. The business requirement is that the contract needs to
be approved by 5 users and all 5 users must approve the contract. Identify the configurations
that need to be completed to fulfill this requirement:

A. Setup approval group with voting regime as first responder wins

B. Setup employee supervisor hierarchy for all 5 users with their managers and add
them to an approval group

C. Setup user group, use rule for serial approval for the 5 users and setup individual
rules

D. Setup approval group, use rule for parallel approval with voting regime as
consensus
Correct Answer: D

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Recommended Training
Oracle University Training
Fusion Procurement
Oracle PTS Training*

(* based on qualifying criteria)

Recommended Documentation
Oracle Documentation
Cloud PROCUREMENT Documentation
User and implementation guides are publicly available on the Help Center.

Exam Registration Details

Full exam preparation details are available on the exam page Oracle Procurement Cloud 2016 Certified
Implementation Specialist (1Z0-327) including learning objectives, number of questions, time allowance, pricing and
languages available.

The OPN Certified Specialist Exams appointments are available worldwide at Pearson VUE Testing
Centers. Reservations can be made via phone or online.

Candidates must have an Oracle Web Account to access CertView and check their exam results. In order to have their
certifications reflected on OPN Competency Center, both CertView and Pearson Vue accounts must be updated with
the current OPN Company ID. Your Company ID can be obtained by contacting your local Oracle Partner Business
Center or by signing in to your OPN account.

Additional Resources
Oracle Procurement Cloud Knowledge Zone
Oracle Procurement Cloud Specialization
OPN Guided Learning Paths & Assessments
OPN Certified Specialist Exam Study Guides

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