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Autonomous Sourcing Assistant

A seeded Oracle AI Agent Studio agent template for Oracle Sourcing that converts eligible requisition lines into supplier negotiations according to a configured sourcing policy document, generates the negotiation title and synopsis, invites suppliers based on historical data, submits the negotiation for approval where approvals are enabled, and publishes it after final approval. Award decisions and purchasing-document creation belong to the separate Supplier Negotiation Award Assistant.

Recorded characteristics

Function
Processes requisition lines marked as negotiation required that meet the item category and amount thresholds defined in a configured autonomous sourcing policy document, groups lines from the same requisition that share the same policy criteria (negotiation template name, maximum line amount, minimum supplier bid count, negotiation open duration) into a single negotiation, creates the negotiation from the selected negotiation template, generates a title and synopsis, invites relevant suppliers based on historical data, submits the negotiation for approval where approvals are enabled, and publishes the negotiation upon final approval. Oracle attributes award decisions, award approval and purchasing-document generation to a separate agent template, the Supplier Negotiation Award Assistant.
Data access
Requisition lines and their attributes, including the negotiation-required marking, item category, line amount and suggested buyer; the autonomous sourcing policy document held in the Autonomous Sourcing Policy tool in AI Agent Studio (eligible item categories, negotiation template names, bidding durations, minimum number of supplier bids, maximum line amount per category); negotiation templates and negotiation styles; and historical data used to identify relevant suppliers to invite. Oracle does not further specify the historical data set used for supplier invitation.
Actions
Can take actions
External actions
Unknown
Human confirmation
Conditional
Permission basis
Not established
Administrative control
Administrators create an instance of the seeded Autonomous Sourcing Assistant template in AI Agent Studio using Copy Template or Use Template, and must publish the instance. The autonomous sourcing policy document (obtained via My Oracle Support Knowledge Base article KB858736) is added to the Autonomous Sourcing Policy tool within the Sourcing product and set to Ready to Publish; Oracle notes policy documents must be text-based PDFs with unchanged section headings. Site-level profile options control the agent: ORA_PON_AUTONOMOUS_NEG_OWNER (default negotiation owner), PON_AUTONOMOUS_SOURCING_AGENT and PON_AUTONOMOUS_SOURCING_AGENT_VERSION (agent team code and version). The scheduled job Process Agent Documents parses the policy document, and Process Requisition Lines with Autonomous Sourcing Assistant is scheduled at administrator-chosen intervals (for example daily or weekly). Oracle recommends setting the negotiation owner as the first-level approver so that a human reviews autonomously created negotiations. From update 26B, approval rules and approval notifications can be routed and conditioned on the Autonomous Sourcing attribute, negotiations created autonomously display a banner throughout their lifecycle, and the Negotiation Workbench provides an Autonomous filter and an exposable Autonomous column. Access requires configured job roles containing the PRC Intelligent Agent Management and Fai Genai Agent PRC Administrator duty roles for agent management and the Fai Genai Agent Runtime Duty for interacting with agents.
Default state
Disabled
Availability
Introduced in Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement update 26A for the Sourcing product family, where Oracle's feature summary lists it with an enablement of Setup Required and no opt-in. Update 26B added visibility and approval-routing enhancements; the update 26C procurement release documentation records no further changes to this agent. Requires Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications and Oracle Sourcing. Oracle does not document geographic or deployment restrictions for this agent.
Licensing
Oracle does not document separate licensing or entitlement requirements for this agent beyond Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement (Sourcing) and access to Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.
External model or provider
Not established
Limitations and uncertainty
Oracle labels the feature Setup Required: it cannot operate until an agent instance is created and published, the sourcing policy document is loaded and parsed, profile options are set and the scheduled job is scheduled. Autonomy is bounded by the policy document, which limits eligible item categories, maximum line amounts, negotiation templates, bidding durations and minimum supplier bid counts. This record covers negotiation creation through publication only; Oracle attributes award decisions, award approval and purchasing-document creation to the separate Supplier Negotiation Award Assistant, and the record must not be read as establishing that this agent awards suppliers or creates purchase orders or agreements. Submission for approval occurs "when approvals are enabled", so whether a human reviews each autonomously created negotiation depends on the customer's approval rules; Oracle recommends, but does not require, that the negotiation owner be the first-level approver. Runtime authority is not clearly established: Oracle documents a default negotiation owner profile option and an integration user (Associated Person Type of None) with named privileges for scheduling the ESS jobs through REST services, but does not state whose privileges the agent's create, submit and publish actions execute under. Whether the agent performs any state-changing action in a system outside Oracle Fusion is not documented. Oracle does not identify the model or provider used by this agent. Error handling is documented only as an email notification to the negotiation owner when errors occur during the process.

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