Reassign Purchasing Document
Use the Reassign Purchasing Document scheduled process to reassign purchasing documents.
When to Use
You can run the scheduled process to reassign purchasing documents from one buyer to another, including purchase agreements, contract agreements, and purchase orders.
To run the scheduled process, use the Reassign Purchasing Documents task from the Purchase Agreements or Purchase Orders work areas.
Privileges Required
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Reassign Purchasing Document (PO_REASSIGN_PURCHASING_DOCUMENT_PRIV)
Specifications
Specification | Description |
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Job Type | Scheduled. |
Frequency | You're encouraged to schedule the process according to business needs. Allow for a lag between the end of each scheduled process and the start of the next scheduled process. |
Time of Day | Choose the time of day that doesn't interfere with your daily business activity, such as at the end of the workday, after the end of shifts, after peak transaction activity, or during a lull in transaction activity. |
Duration | The runtime of this process varies based on the number of documents. |
Compatibility | There must be only one instance of the job running at any point of time. This is automatically handled by the application. If you must run more than one instance of this process, then consider spacing them out over a period of time. |
Parameters
Parameter | Optional or Required | Description | Parameter Values | Special Combinations Required | Notes |
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Document Type | Required |
Select one of the following document types:
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N/A | None | N/A |
Procurement BU | Required | Reassign documents for the specified procurement business unit. | N/A | None | N/A |
Requisitioning BU | Optional |
Reassign documents for a specified requisitioning business unit within the procurement business unit. |
N/A | None | N/A |
Supplier | Optional | Reassign documents for a specified supplier, within the specified procurement business unit. | N/A | None | N/A |
Buyer | Required |
Reassign documents from the specified buyer to another specified new buyer. |
N/A | None | N/A |
New Buyer | Required |
Reassign documents from the specified old buyer to this specified new buyer. |
N/A | None | N/A |
Troubleshooting Information
- You can view the status of the Reassign Purchasing Document process in the Scheduled Processes work area.
- The validation errors and warning messages that prevented the import contract agreements are displayed in the error log.
- After you've corrected the validation errors, you can resubmit the process.