How You Reassign Purchasing Documents

You can run a process to reassign purchasing documents from one buyer to another, including purchase agreements, contract agreements and purchase orders.

To run the process use the Reassign Purchasing Documents task, from the Purchase Agreements or Purchase Orders work area.

Note: To use the Reassign Purchasing Documents task you must have a role with the Reassign Purchasing Document privilege. For example, Procurement Manager, Category Manager or Buyer.

Settings That Affect the Reassign Purchasing Documents Process

This table lists selection parameters and their descriptions for the Reassign Purchasing Documents process.

Parameter	Description
Document Type	Required. Reassigns documents based on document type. Values include: Purchase Agreements, Purchase Orders, and Purchase Orders and Agreements.
Procurement BU	Required. Reassigns documents for the specified procurement business unit.
Requisitioning BU	Optional. Reassigns documents for a specified requisitioning business unit within the procurement business unit.
Supplier	Optional. Reassigns documents for a specified supplier, within the specified procurement business unit.
Old Buyer	Required. Reassigns documents from the specified buyer to another specified new buyer.
New Buyer	Required. Reassigns documents from the specified old buyer to this specified new buyer.

How Reassign Purchasing Documents Is Processed

Based solely on the required parameters, you can reassign purchasing documents from one buyer to another, for a specified document type and procurement business unit.

You can also use the optional parameters to perform a more granular reassignment of a subset of those purchasing documents between buyers.

• Reassign documents of a specified type for a requisitioning business unit within the procurement business unit.

• Reassign documents of a specified type within the procurement business unit, for a specified supplier.