Requisition Default Hierarchy

PeopleSoft Purchasing enables you to create requisitions using requisition loader batch processing or the requisition online entry pages.

The Purchasing Requisition Loader Application Engine process (PO_REQLOAD) derives its most specific default values from the data sources of this batch process. At a less specific level, you can use the Requisition Loader Defaults page to set the default values for the Purchasing Requisition Loader process. These default values populate empty requisition ChartFields when you run the process. Use the Requisition Loader Defaults - Overrides and Options page to set override options for the Purchasing Requisition Loader process. These values replace source requisition ChartField values when you run the process.

After you create requisitions from the online entry pages, use the Maintain Requisitions - Requisition Defaults page to set defaults for requisitions at the individual transaction level. This page gives you the option to do the following for all future requisition lines:

• Specify default values.

  The application references the default values specified in the existing hierarchy to populate fields on future lines. If no values are found, it uses the values defined on this page as defaults.

• Specify overriding values.

  The application references the values that you defined on this page to populate fields on the requisition for future lines.

If you have pre-existing defaults on the Requisitions - Header or Line Defaults pages and you change any of these values, PeopleSoft Purchasing enables you to retrofit these changes to existing requisition lines and distributions.