Understanding the Shopping Cart Program

The Shopping Cart program (P43E25) provides a simple, efficient means of entering requisitions. The Shopping Cart program displays the commodity structure so that a user can select a particular item or service by selecting a commodity. The program also contains a Product tab, which lists items from the Item Master table, and a Supplier tab, which lists preferred suppliers for a particular item. Users can search for valid products and services using standard searching capability, which includes the use of wild cards.

Additionally, if any of the suppliers are set up for Direct Connect, the Supplier tab provides links to those suppliers' websites.

After you connect to a supplier's site, you select items directly on their site. When you return to the Shopping Cart program, the system loads the items that you selected into the shopping cart. You can then either click Submit, or you can connect to another supplier's site to continue shopping. Within one session, the system loads items from multiple suppliers into the same shopping cart. You can also add stock items to the shopping cart.

When you click Submit, the system displays the requisition number that it created and assigns the requisition a status of Submitted.If you have activated budget checking in the processing options for the Requisition Entry Business Function Application (P43E0001), the system performs budget checking after you click Submit. If errors occur during the requisition creation process, the system displays the Requisition Creation form and highlights the error, enabling you to correct the error and resubmit the requisition.

If your internet session times out before you click Submit, the system saves the contents of the shopping cart so that you do not have to recreate it.