Change Description and Pricing for Catalog Items During Shopping

You can now use the Responsive Self Service Procurement application to change the following information for catalog items during shopping:

• Description and price for a master item
• Price or amount for a blanket purchase agreement line based on the type of line.

This table summarizes the conditions for the changeability of attributes depending on the type of catalog content:

Catalog Content Type	Attribute	Conditions for Attribute Modification
Master Item	Price	Additional privilege is required.
	Description	Additional privilege is required. Product Information Management item setup is configured to allow description update on purchasing documents.
Blanket Purchase Agreement Line	Price/ Amount	The profile option Agreement Price Override on Requisition Lines Allowed (ORA_POR_BPA_PRICE_OVERRIDE) is set to Yes.  Blanket Purchase agreement line setup is configured to allow price override.
	Description	Not supported

For both master items and agreement lines, you can modify the values for price and description by drilling down to the Product Details page from the search result card for the item. You could make the desired change and upon adding to the cart the requisition line will be created with specified values.  

Edit Icons to Update the Description and Price of a Master Item

If you want to modify the values of the catalog item after it has been added to the cart, you can navigate to the Line Product Details page by clicking the item description link for the line in the shopping cart. 

Shopping Cart with Description Link for Lines

Line Product Details for Line with Blanket Purchase Agreement Line Reference

Apart from lines based on master items and blanket purchase agreements, depending on conditions, the description and pricing information on lines created from punchout catalogs can also be modified using the Line Product Details page. 

The description and pricing information provided by you for a master item is retained on lines after requisition submission and purchase order creation. For such lines, automatic document sourcing isn't applicable in requisitioning and PO generation flows. After you have updated any of description and pricing attributes for a master item-based line, any updates to these attributes in the Product Information Management (PIM) setup for the item won't be updated on the specific lines.

Like the master item, any change to the price or amount of a requisition line referencing a blanket purchase agreement line, is maintained on the requisition line and the associated purchase order document.

Using this feature, you can:

• Specify a more current description for goods or services and pricing information than the possibly dated values in the catalog setup.

• Communicate the specified values to the supplier by retaining information on purchase orders created for requisition lines.

Steps to Enable

Use the Opt In UI to enable this feature. For instructions, refer to the Optional Uptake of New Features section of this document.

Offering: Procurement

If you want to use the Support Price and Description Update of Catalog Items during Shopping feature, then you must opt in to its parent feature: Procure Goods and Services Using the Responsive Self Service Procurement Application. If you’ve already opted in to this parent feature, then you don’t have to opt in again.

Tips And Considerations

• For blanket purchase agreement lines with currency other than the ledger currency, the transactional currency price or amount is updatable on both the Product Details and the Line Product Details pages.

• On the Product Details page, the updates to any of the attributes are only applicable to the Add to Cart action. The Add to List action always adds the item with original attribute values. Also, the changes made to attributes are visible until the user is on the page.

• For items that can be sourced from inventory or supplier, any changes to the attributes made will be ignored if the source is determined to be inventory upon Add to Cart. 

Key Resources

• To know more about how to use the Responsive Self Service Procurement application, refer to the Procure Goods and Services Using the Responsive Self Service Procurement Application readiness training.

• To know how to provide the required privileges to your requesters to use your own configured role instead of the Requisition Self Service User role, refer to the How You Configure Roles for the Responsive Self Service Procurement Application topic.

Access Requirements

Users who are assigned a configured job role that contains these privileges can access this feature:

• Manage Requisition with the Responsive Self Service Procurement Application (POR_MANAGE_REQ_WITH_PWA_PRIV). This privilege was available prior to this update.

To update master item information one of the following privileges is needed: 

• Create Requisition with Quick Entry (POR_CREATE_REQUISITION_ALLOW_QUICK_ENTRY_PRIV). This privilege was available prior to this update.

• Allow users to override master item attributes during catalog shopping (POR_ALLOW_MASTER_ITEM_OVERRIDE_DURING_SHOPPING_PRIV). This privilege is new in this update.