Project Information in Requisitions and Purchase Orders

You can create and manage requisitions and purchase orders for sponsored project expenditures. For purchase orders, use the Project Details section of the order's line distribution to enter project information.

Aspects of using project information in requisitions and purchase orders that are covered in this topic are:

Project attributes in requisitions and purchase orders.
Project costing integration.
Additional areas where project attributes are used.
What Happens When You Implement Project Costing.

Project Attributes in Requisitions and Purchase Orders

You can track sponsored project information in requisitions and purchase orders using these fields:

Project Number
Task Number
Expenditure Item Date
Expenditure Type
Expenditure Organization
Contract Number
Funding Source

Project Costing Integration

You can use the following fields to support integration with Oracle Fusion Project Costing:

Expenditure Item Date
Expenditure Type
Expenditure Organization

Additional Areas Where Project Attributes Are Used

Sponsored project information can also be used when:

Importing requisitions or purchase orders through the Cloud Import Template, Open Interface, or from external applications through a web service.
Setting up account generation defaults.
Setting up approval routing and rules.

What Happens When You Implement Project Costing

Your organization must implement the Project Costing functional area of the Project Financial Management offering, using the Setup and Maintenance work area. This enables the display of the Project Costing Details and Project Details sections in requisitions and purchase orders, respectively.

For inventory destination, you must use the Project-Driven Supply chain feature from Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering and enable inventory organization for project tracking.

How You Search for Requisitions and Purchase Orders Using Project Details

Using project attributes such as project number and task number, you can search for purchase orders and purchase order schedules on the Manage Orders page.

On the View Requisition Lines page, you can filter requisition lines by project attributes.

On the Process Requisitions page, you can search for requisitions by project number and task number. In order to do so, you must enter the requisitioning BU before entering a value for the project number. Similarly, you must enter a project number before entering a task number.