Oracle Apps :- Iprocurement Interview Questions and Answers

Some Interview Question for I-Procurement.

Que:-What is iProcurement?

Ans:-   iProcurement is a self-service web Purchasing application. Consider it as an alternate application for creating purchase requisitions and simple receiving.

Que:-  : What is a punchout?
Ans :-    : Punchout enables buyers to click a link that goes to a supplier’s catalog, search for

items on the supplier’s site, and return those items directly to the buyer’s shopping

cart.

Que:-  : Do we create purchase orders in iProcurement ?
Ans :-    : No, you can create requisitions in iProcurement.

Que:-  : We need to submit PO Creation as soon as the Requisition gets submitted & auto-approved in iProc. How can we do it?

Ans :-    : In Workflow "PO Requisition Approval", The item attribute “SEND_CREATEPO_TO_BACKGROUND” needs to be assigned value of N.
This will enable Real-Time processing of requisition mainly because the user can get a PO Number within the same browser session if auto-approval is enabled.

Que:-  : If a requisition has been approved in iProc, we want such requisitions to be Auto-Approved once they get converted to PO. How you achive it?
Ans :-   : In Workflow "PO Create Documents", assign a default value Y to attribute "Is Automatic Approval Allowed?"

Que:-  : What are the key advantages of punch-out over catalog management?
Ans :-    : 
1:- No need to maintain the price information. Supplier will maintain it at there end in their Istore
2. No need to uplaod supplier item in our system

Que:-  : When shopping basket is brought back from suppliers website after punchout, how does the item category code of supplier item get mapped to the category code in Oracle?
Ans :-    : Suppliers punchout basket will always contained universally recognized category codes i.e. UNSPSC codes. You will need to define the mapping for each such expected code in eCommerce gateway. These will be mapped to your inventory category codes (the good old mtl_categories ).

Que:-  : After the purchase order gets approved, you wish to send Purchase Order electronically to the supplier. Which XML document format is used?
Ans :-    : "PO 007" is the OAG format that is used for electronically sending XML Purchase Order to supplier.

Que:-  : Have you done any customization in Oracle iProcuremnt?

Ans :-    : All the implementations of iProcurement will involve customization of workflows to some extent.
Customization to Account Generator workflow is a must for any iProc implementation