diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-function.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-function.adoc
index 5bcff77e9..ee6358a03 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-function.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/spring-cloud-function.adoc
@@ -59,6 +59,43 @@ transmit headers from any adapter that supports key-value metadata
 
 |===
 
+==== Supplier
+As you can see from the table above Supplier can be _reactive_ - `Supplier<Flux<T>>`
+or _imperative_ - `Supplier<T>`. From the invocation standpoint this should make no difference
+to the implementor of such Supplier. However, when used within frameworks
+(e.g., https://spring.io/projects/spring-cloud-stream[Spring Cloud Stream]), Suppliers, especially reactive,
+often used to represent the source of the stream, therefore they are invoked once to get the stream (e.g., Flux)
+to which consumers can subscribe to. In other words such suppliers represent an equivalent of an _infinite stream_.
+However, the same reactive suppliers can also represent _finite_ stream(s) (e.g., result set on the polled JDBC data).
+In those cases such reactive suppliers must be hooked up to some polling mechanism of the underlying framework.
+
+To assist with that Spring Cloud Function provides a marker annotation
+`org.springframework.cloud.function.context.PollableSupplier` to signal that such supplier produces a
+finite stream and may need to be polled again. That said, it is important to understand that Spring Cloud Function itself
+provides no behavior for this annotation.
+
+In addition `PollableSupplier` annotation exposes a _splittable_ attribute to signal that produced stream
+needs to be split (see https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messaging/Sequencer.html[Splitter EIP])
+
+Here is the example:
+
+[source, java]
+----
+@PollableSupplier(splittable = true)
+public Supplier<Flux<String>> someSupplier() {
+	return () -> {
+		String v1 = String.valueOf(System.nanoTime());
+		String v2 = String.valueOf(System.nanoTime());
+		String v3 = String.valueOf(System.nanoTime());
+		return Flux.just(v1, v2, v3);
+	};
+}
+----
+
+==== Function
+TBD
+
+==== Consumer
 Consumer is a little bit special because it has a `void` return type,
 which implies blocking, at least potentially. Most likely you will not
 need to write `Consumer<Flux<?>>`, but if you do need to do that,
diff --git a/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/PollableSupplier.java b/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/PollableSupplier.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7b76a6c8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/PollableSupplier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2019-2019 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.cloud.function.context;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * A marker annotation to signal to the consumers of the
+ * annotated {@link Supplier} method that regardless of its type signature
+ * (reactive or imperative), such supplier needs to be polled
+ * periodically. This has special significance to the reactive suppliers (e.g., {@code Supplier<Flux<?>}),
+ * since in most cases they are treated as producers of an infinite stream
+ * that is managed independently once produced. However if such suppliers produce a stream hat is finite
+ * they may need to be called again.
+ *
+ * <br>
+ * NOTE: Given that polling behavior is specific to the users (consumers) of the annotated supplier,
+ * spring-cloud-function provides no default post processing behavior which means that annotating a
+ * factory method with this annotation will not have any effect without some application/framework
+ * specific post processing.
+ *
+ *
+ * @author Oleg Zhurakousky
+ * @since 3.0
+ *
+ */
+@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE})
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+@Bean
+@Documented
+public @interface PollableSupplier {
+
+	/**
+	 * Signals to the post processors of this annotation that the result produced by the
+	 * annotated {@link Supplier} has to be split. Specifics on how to split and what
+	 * to split are left to the underlying framework.
+	 *
+	 * @return true if the resulting stream produced by the
+	 * annotated {@link Supplier} has to be split.
+	 */
+	boolean splittable() default false;
+}
diff --git a/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/catalog/FunctionTypeUtils.java b/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/catalog/FunctionTypeUtils.java
index f4caae2cb..320e999e2 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/catalog/FunctionTypeUtils.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-function-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/function/context/catalog/FunctionTypeUtils.java
@@ -240,8 +240,21 @@ public final class FunctionTypeUtils {
 		return Publisher.class.isAssignableFrom(rawType);
 	}
 
+	public static boolean isSupplier(Type type) {
+		return isOfType(type, Supplier.class);
+	}
+
+	public static boolean isFunction(Type type) {
+		return isOfType(type, Function.class);
+	}
+
 	public static boolean isConsumer(Type type) {
-		return type.getTypeName().startsWith("java.util.function.Consumer");
+		return isOfType(type, Consumer.class);
+	}
+
+	public static boolean isOfType(Type type, Class<?> cls) {
+		Class<?> c = type instanceof ParameterizedType ? (Class<?>) ((ParameterizedType) type).getRawType() : (Class<?>) type;
+		return cls.isAssignableFrom(c);
 	}
 
 	public static boolean isMono(Type type) {
@@ -275,14 +288,6 @@ public final class FunctionTypeUtils {
 		return argument != null && argument.getClass().getName().startsWith("reactor.util.function.Tuple");
 	}
 
-	public static boolean isSupplier(Type type) {
-		return type.getTypeName().startsWith("java.util.function.Supplier");
-	}
-
-	public static boolean isFunction(Type type) {
-		return type.getTypeName().startsWith("java.util.function.Function");
-	}
-
 	public static Type compose(Type originType, Type composedType) {
 		ResolvableType resolvableOriginType = ResolvableType.forType(originType);
 		ResolvableType resolvableComposedType = ResolvableType.forType(composedType);