Common Elements Used in Purchase Order Sourcing

Business Unit

Select rows to be processed or selected based on the business unit that staged them.

Date

Specify the exact date that you want to use in the date selection criteria. This field is required if you use the date selection option S; otherwise, it is unavailable for entry.

Nbr Days (number of days)

Number of days for the before, equal to, or after selections in the Operand field. Applicable when you use Option field values P and M.

Operand

Use this field to indicate whether date selection range should include dates that are before, equal to, or after the selection date. For example, suppose that you want to include requisitions with source dates up to today and for the next three days, select date selection option P, date selection operand <=, and number of days 3.

Option

For the AutoSelect Requisitions process, use to specify the source date selection criteria for the requisition lines that you want to process or select.

For the Purchase Order Stage Load process, use to specify release date selection criteria for planned purchase orders you want to process or select.

For the Purge Stage Tables process, use to specify the release date selection criteria for requests that you want to process or select.

Values are:

C: Use current date.

M: Current date minus number of days.

N: No date selection criteria.

P: Current date plus number of days.

S: Use a specified date. Enter a date in the Date field.

PO Process that built row

Select rows to be processed based on the process that staged them.

CON (contract purchase orders).

CRT (par location replenishment).

OLS (online source).

PLL (planning load).

RFQ (request for quotation).

SFL (manufacturing load).

SRC (autoselect)

Process Instance

Select rows to be processed and selected based on the process instance that staged them.

System Source

Select rows to be processed and selected based on their system source.