Strategic Sourcing Business Units

A business unit is an operational subset of an organization. It tracks and maintains its own set of events and their respective awards.

When you create business units for events, you can set the defaults for event dates and times.

If you are using PeopleSoft Purchasing, synchronize the SetIDs between the business units of both applications to ensure that purchase orders and contracts are correctly created when you award events. Specifically, the same SetID should be used for the following record group IDs:

• FS_38 (suppliers)

• FS_26 (locations)

• DS_02 (freight and shipping codes)

• FS_18 (items)

• PO_04 (ship to addresses)

• FS_18 (item categories)

You map the PeopleSoft Purchasing business unit to the Strategic Sourcing business unit on the Purchasing business unit setup page. This enables you to associate multiple Purchasing business units with the same Strategic Sourcing business unit, which facilitates consolidating requisitions across multiple Purchasing business units.

See PeopleSoft Purchasing: Understanding Business Units in PeopleSoft Purchasing.