Mass Replacement of Items and Supply Sources

Use the Mass Replacement of Items and Supply Sources scheduled process to replace the open purchase orders or purchase order lines with an alternate item or with an alternate supply source.

It also sends notifications to the requesters of the requisitions backing these purchase order lines informing them about the changes due to the replacement action.

When to Use

This scheduled process is initiated automatically as part of the item replacement task when you perform the replacement actions on the purchase orders through an item replacement guided process.

Privileges Required

This scheduled process is initiated automatically and not by the user.

Specifications

Review these specifications:

Specification Description
Job Type Initiated by the system.
Frequency Whenever replacement is initiated on the open purchase order lines in a replacement task.
Time of Day Automatic.
Duration Runtime of this process varies based on the volume of open purchase order lines.
Compatibility There should only be one instance of the Mass Replacement of Items and Supply Sources process running at one time for a replacement task.

Parameters

Parameter values are automatically passed to the scheduled process when it's called from the Manage Purchase Orders page of the item replacement guided process.

Troubleshooting Information

  • You can view the status of the process in the Scheduled Processes work area.
  • Error and warning messages encountered while running the process are displayed in the process log file.
  • When the process is submitted, you can perform any of these tasks in the Scheduled Processes work area: Resubmit, Put on Hold, Cancel Process, Release Process.