Objective
This note documents the exact procedure we ran to enable the Redwood experience for Supply Chain Sourcing / Negotiations on an Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications test pod: the 5 profile options involved, the step-by-step in Setup and Maintenance, and — most usefully — how to prove the switch actually happened.
The practical identification rule: in Oracle Fusion, the classic (ADF) experience uses URLs with /fscmUI/faces/... while Redwood uses routes with /fscmUI/redwood/.... If the URL contains /faces/, it is NOT Redwood. Everything else — look and feel, navigator labels — can mislead you; the URL cannot.
Prerequisites
The 5 profile options
The Redwood experience for Sourcing / Negotiations is activated with five profile options, all at Site level:
The first three are the Sourcing pages themselves; the last two are the search infrastructure they sit on. Skipping the ORA_FND_SEARCH ones is the classic way to end up with a Redwood page whose search returns nothing.
Step by step
Setup and Maintenance
Open the Manage Administrator Profile Values task
Enable each profile option
Log out, log back in
Site-level profile option changes may require a full logout/login for the Navigator menu to pick up the new Redwood entry. Do it — the next section explains why.
Validating the switch — before vs. after
The conclusive test is the URL the Sourcing landing resolves to when opened from the Navigator.
Before (classic ADF): Navigator entry Procurement → Negotiations opens the classic infolet Overview page ("My Negotiations", "Messages", award donut charts) at /fscmUI/faces/FndOverview?... — contains /faces/, so it is ADF, not Redwood.
After (Redwood): a new Navigator entry opens the Sourcing Landing Page — header, recent-negotiations counter, a negotiations table (Negotiation / Status / Title / Supplier responses / Unread messages / Last activity) and an Actions + Quick access side panel — at /fscmUI/redwood/sourcing/landing-page/overview. Contains /redwood/ and no /faces/: this is Redwood.
The 'Abastecimiento (nuevo)' gotcha
After enabling the profile options and logging back in, the Navigator grows a new entry — on a Spanish pod it is labeled «Abastecimiento (nuevo)» ("Sourcing (new)") under the Procurement area. That entry, and not the old «Negociaciones», is the one that opens the Redwood page.
The classic Procurement → Negotiations entry keeps working and keeps resolving to the ADF Overview. That is expected during the coexistence period — nothing is broken. If users report "we enabled Redwood and nothing changed", this navigator split is almost always why.