How You Assign Buyers using Buyer Assignment Rules

Your organization's procurement buyers have different sets of expertise. Identifying the best buyer for a purchasing transaction can play a significant role in cost sensitive business procurement. You can use buyer assignment rules to help with this process.

The application assigns a buyer to a requisition line only if a suggested buyer isn't provided by the requester. The application assigns a buyer using the following steps, in order of precedence:

1. Evaluate the buyer assignment rules, as set up in the Manage Buyer Assignment Rules task. Find the task in the Setup and Maintenance work area, in the Purchasing Foundation functional area.

2. Use the default buyer from the item definition in the deliver-to organization of the requisition line. Find the requisition line on the Process Requisitions page, in the Purchase Orders or Purchase Agreements work area.

3. Use the default buyer from the Configure Procurement Business Function task. Find the task in the Setup and Maintenance work area, Procurement Foundation functional area.

If the Use Same Buyer for all Lines in a Requisition profile option is enabled in the application, the buyer assigned to the first line will also be assigned to all other lines.

Note: When you opt in to the Assign Requisition Lines to the Buyer on the Source Agreement feature, buyer assignment rules aren't evaluated for requisitions lines that are sourced to an agreement. The buyer on the source agreement is assigned as the requisition line buyer.