Linking Spend Facts directly to Agreements in FAW

Joost H

Organization Name (Required - If you are an Oracle Partner, please provide the organization you are logging the idea on behalf of):

KPN B.V.

Description (Required):

In the Subject Area [Procurement - Spend] the element of Agreement is missing within the subject area. This results that you cannot combine the Spend facts with the Agreement Number attribute from the Subject Area [Procurement - Agreements].

However it is possible to include in your visual an Purchase Order attribute which in itself will connect to an agreement, and thus linking agreement with spend. But this will inflate the visual and will be unwanted in most cases.

A second result of this is that no overview can be made of [Agreement] + [Buyer] + [Spend] can be made. If Purchase Order attribute must be used, then this will also pull in the [buyer] of one or more purchase orders. Inflating the visual with operational buyers instead of only one strategic buyer.

Note: in practice there is [buyer] of the agreement which is the person who creates and finalised the agreement with the supplier. And there is the buyer who initiates the operational Purchase Orders under an Agreement.

Use Case and Business Need (Required):

From Procurement perspective it is very relevant to be able to generate lists/tables/visuals which will give an overview of (all) agreements in place of the organisation with its corresponding spend.

So a strategic overview of suppliers with their agreements plus the spend for current year, or multiple years. This is a basic requirement for any strategic procurement department.

Enhancement Request / Service Request:

Implement Agreement within [Procurement Spend] subject area, so Spend facts can be combined with Agreements only to be able to built reports on this strategic attributes.