Document Style Options

You can use purchasing document styles to control the look and feel of a purchasing documents in the application to match their business usage. Through reusable document styles, you can turn on or off various procurement features, thereby simplifying the user interface.

In addition, document styles provide the ability to define purchasing document names that align more closely with the naming conventions of your organization's business.

When you create a purchasing document using a document style, disabled features are hidden. For example, if price breaks aren't allowed on an agreement document style then agreements using this style won't display the price break region.

Document Style for Commodities

You can create a document style for a specific commodity such as services. This document style optimizes field labels and presentation for that commodity, thereby simplifying purchase order entry.

Document Style for Blanket Purchase Agreement

You can enable a document style for use with blanket purchase agreements. This document style could be used to limit the use of price breaks, for example. You can also give a document style a distinctive name. For example, a construction company might name their agreement styles Equipment Agreement and Supply Agreement to easily separate the two types of agreements.

Document Style for Contract Purchase Agreement

You can enable a document style for use with contract purchase agreements utilizing the naming convention of your organization.