How You Assign Priorities to Blanket Purchase Agreements to Rank Source Agreements for Requisitions and Purchase Orders

You can use the Rank Blanket Purchase Agreements to Prioritize Source Selection on Requisitions and Purchase Orders feature to assign priorities to blanket purchase agreements to rank candidate source agreements for requisitions and purchase order lines.

You can assign priorities to blank purchase agreements in the Order Processing section of the Agreement Controls tab on the Edit Order page. You can assign any number between 1 and 999, wherein any agreement without a priority is treated as having the lowest priority (999).

When multiple blanket purchase agreements are available for automatic document sourcing, the following hierarchy is applied to select a source agreement:

1. Agreement owned by the requisitioning business unit acting as its own procurement business unit.
2. Agreement with the option to automatically generate orders.
3. Agreement with the highest priority.
4. Agreement with the earliest start date.
5. Most recently created agreement.

Here are some of the considerations for using the feature:

• Blanket purchase agreement priorities can be assigned or updated from either the UI or the file-based data import process (FBDI).
• Priorities aren't applicable to contract purchase agreements.
• If you use approved supplier lists, the application will first attempt to identify a source agreement from the relevant approved supplier list entries and will use the agreements’ priorities to break ties whenever necessary.