Procurement - Purchasing Real Time

Description

This subject area provides real-time information on purchase orders. It includes details on the items or services being procured, estimated costs, quantities, delivery schedules, and accounting distributions. The data is measured at different levels of granularity, such as purchase order quantity at the purchase order line level, scheduled quantity and received quantity at the schedule line level, and distribution ordered amount and billed amount by distribution.

Business Questions

This subject area can answer the following business questions:

• What are the open purchase orders with delayed delivery?

• What are the top purchase orders by the number of days for which they are unprocessed?

• Which purchase orders have a nonstandard clause?

• What are the ordered amount and invoiced amount by purchase order distribution?

• What is the expected delivery schedule for open purchase orders for a given item?

• What is the split in the total purchased amount by purchase order charge account?

• What are the top 10 open purchase orders for a given supplier?

Job Roles

The following job roles secure access to this subject area:

• Buyer

• Category Manager

• Procurement Contract Administrator

• Procurement Manager

• Purchase Analysis

Duty Roles

The following duty roles secure access to this subject area:

• Purchase Order Transaction Analysis Duty

Primary Navigation

Navigator > Procurement

Time Reporting

This subject area supports historical reporting.

Time dimension is linked to Purchase Order Version Document Date.

Transactional Grain

Not available

Special Considerations

Predefined metrics, such as Ordered Quantity, don't get refined when used with Spend Classification attributes because the Spend Classification integration is at the distribution level of each purchase requisition, purchase order, and invoice. If you use these attributes with predefined metrics, note that the attributes won't change the values of the metrics.