How You Create a Purchase Agreement for Outside Processing

As a user such as a buyer or category manager, you can create purchase agreements for outside processing items. Purchase agreements for outside processing items support the automatic creation of outside processing purchase orders from externally managed purchase requisitions.

To create purchase agreements for outside processing items, use the Create Agreement task in the Purchase Agreements or Purchase Orders work areas. Key elements of this task are:

Selecting the outside processing document style.
Adding outside processing items to the agreement.

How You Select the Document Style

In the Create Agreement dialog, Style drop-down list, you must select an outside processing document style. Two predefined outside processing styles are delivered:

Outside Processing Blanket Agreement
Outside Processing Contract Agreement

You can also select from outside processing agreement document styles your organization has created, if any.

How You Add an Outside Processing Item

You can add an outside processing item to the Items field, on the Lines tab of a blanket purchase agreement. You can only do so if the agreement has an outside processing document style. There can be one or more outside processing items, as well as non-outside processing items, on a blanket purchase agreement.