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Purchasing Example

The purchasing department might want to group all items by commodity codes. You can define a category set called Purchasing Class with categories that represent commodity codes such as OEM, IC, software and documentation. You can choose Purchasing Class to be the default (mandatory) category set of the purchasing functional area.

In the bills of material shown in the Examples Overview, the purchased items are CM2346, CM2347, CM2349, CM2350, CM2352, CM2353, CM2355 and CM2356. When you define your items you can set the Purchased attribute to "Yes" for each of these items. Inventory automatically assigns the Purchasing Class category set and the associated default category OEM to each of the purchased items. The following table shows category assignments within the purchasing default category set.

Item Item Description Purchasing Default (Mandatory) Category Set Category
CM2346 Keyboard Purchasing Class OEM
CM2347 486 Processor Purchasing Class IC
CM2349 Monitor Manual Purchasing Class documentation
CM2350 DOS Operating System Purchasing Class software
CM2352 Desktop Keyboard Purchasing Class OEM
CM2353 Pentium Processor Purchasing Class IC
CM2355 Monitor Manual Purchasing Class documentation
CM2356 UNIX Operating System Purchasing Class software

Oracle Purchasing does not allow you to choose between different category sets. Oracle Purchasing uses the default purchasing category set in all forms and reports that require or display categories. For example, if you choose a particular item in the Supplier Autosource Rules window you see the category (from the purchasing default category set) assigned to the item. In addition, Oracle Purchasing uses item categories in the following reports and forms:

See Also

Item Category Examples Overview

Planning Example

Inventory Example

Unlimited Additional Category Sets

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