Supplier Data Management in Oracle

Users Prefer the More4apps Suite of Tools for Accurate Supplier Master Data

The process of adding information to Oracle is manual and slow, so errors are easy to make and hard to find. As a result, the accuracy and reliability of your ERP are impacted, affecting your ability to work fast and keep up with market changes.

More4apps tools allow data-owning end-users to prepare and load their data directly into the spreadsheet, where they receive error feedback immediately and can quickly react, removing process bottlenecks and the need for costly IT resources.

Watch how users load Supplier data in a fraction of the time that it takes in FBDI. >

Check out the More4apps solutions for Suppliers.

Supplier Solutions Designed for End-Users, by End-Users

Supports Flexfields and Additional Information

Supports descriptive and key flexfields for EBS and Additional Information for Cloud, reading your setup dynamically and is always in sync with your Oracle instance.

Supports all Supplier Data Types

Supports suppliers, attachments, contacts, business classifications, and banking, which includes intermediary account details.

Multi-Org Functionality

Complete multi-org functionality.

Flexible Spreadsheets

The flexible spreadsheets include as few or as many columns as you require.

Oracle-Seeded Public APIs

Harnesses the Oracle-seeded Public APIs, keeping you aligned with your Oracle support contract. Access is governed by Oracle security, using an EBS username, password, and responsibility, ensuring adherence to Oracle authorities and restrictions.

Integrates Directly with Oracle

Our Excel-based tools integrate with Oracle giving data owners the power to prepare and load their data directly into the spreadsheet. The built-in controls allow users to download existing data, upload data, and amend data with validated edit forms.

Single Sign-On

Supports single sign-on.

Full Feature Set of Excel

Leverages Excel features, like copy & paste, formulas, lookups, and more to fast-track data entry.

Provides Pre-Import Error Validation

Receive error feedback immediately with detailed pre-import validation, empowering users to quickly react, removing process bottlenecks and the need for costly IT resources.

Loading Solutions: Free vs Build vs Buy

Data loading is essential to your business, but Oracle’s interface for uploads and downloads is inflexible and inefficient.

One option for addressing ERP loading needs is custom development, but building and maintaining a tool that is secure, user-friendly, and feature-rich demands significant time and expertise. Likewise, free tools frequently lack desired features and functionality.

More4apps offers a trusted, proven, and secure option. These out-of-the-box solutions integrate familiar Excel spreadsheets directly with Oracle. The software is easy and accessible, enabling rapid input and editing with instant validation for accuracy.

Learn more about your options. Read the blog >

Compare FBDI with More4apps for Supplier Data Preparation

Without accurate supplier data, your relationships can be decimated by missed deliveries, compliance challenges, communication issues and late payments.

With More4apps, users can leverage flexible Excel layouts to speed up supplier data preparation and uploads by adding and removing columns, copying and pasting data between spreadsheets, and reusing templates to fit their needs – none of which you can do in FBDI.

Watch this short video to see supplier data uploads completed in 2 minutes with More4apps, compared to nearly 43 minutes in FBDI.

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Create and update data in mass.

Download your existing records and use Excel to easily manipulate data. Use the update function to upload back to Oracle allowing data population and updates to be completed in seconds.

Maintain Supplier bank accounts (EBS only).

Download your accounts into the worksheet. End-date your accounts or their assignments. Assign or reassign them to other sites or addresses or easily designate them to different suppliers with built-in auto-assign-account-ownership functionality.

Use multi-business unit functionality.

To create supplier sites for your new operating unit, download the existing sites, copy their values to a new row, enter the new operating unit, and upload immediately.

More4apps is your smarter Excel interface for Oracle that was created for end-users, by end-users.

More4apps offers a secure, integrated connection to your live Oracle E-Business Suite or Oracle Fusion Cloud Application and ensures the accuracy of your data loading and analysis, all through an Excel-interface.

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Download ERP data into Excel spreadsheets
Find and fix errors
Validate data
Upload data back into Oracle
Carry on with your day!

More4apps products are Microsoft Excel based and are easily uploaded into your Oracle ERP.

Hear it from our Customers!

"Trying to update 24,000 records just would not have happened manually in the time frame required. We would still be working on them six months later. Without the More4apps products, we’d probably need a few more people just to keep the data up-to-date and be able to run projects like this would require a lot of overtime!”
– Josh Evangelista, Data Management Coordinator

Two Solutions: Equally as Impactful

Accelerate your data loading with a suite of trusted and reliable, Excel-based solutions.

Find out more in the EBS Toolbox and ERP Cloud Toolbox brochures!

Oracle Procure-to-Pay Processes Rely on Oracle products, like the More4apps ERP Cloud Toolbox and EBS Toolbox.

Ease of Use

The Excel connection creates accounts payable invoices in a familiar environment. Users can easily merge and import invoice data from multiple sources.

Flexibility

Download data for ease of recreation and visibility and adjust Excel spreadsheet layouts easily.

Scalability

Create and action invoice holds (EBS only) in bulk, with all required data elements within one Excel spreadsheet.

Accuracy

Give your team confidence in the correctness of their data.
Remove manual data entry and reduce errors, confirm live data in real-time, and receive immediate response about data processing errors, all from within Excel.