Create Multiple Purchase Agreement Lines with Assigned Priority from External Purchase Prices

Use selection criteria to determine the 2 best contract lines. External purchase prices then assigns these lines with their respective priorities to purchase agreements.

Prior to this update, the selection criteria setup picked 1 line from External Purchase Prices to pass on to be created in a blanket purchase agreement. You could also mark specific lines as user-selected in External Purchase Prices, so that they were also created in the purchase agreements.

With this update, if there are multiple external purchase price lines for the same manufacturer part number or item and UOM combination, the selection criteria determine the 2 best contract lines to be created as blanket purchase agreement lines. When external purchase price lines are passed to blanket purchase agreements, they’re ranked with a priority that is assigned to the purchase agreement headers.

A new profile option, Multiple Purchase Agreement Lines Creation With Priority From External Purchase Prices Enabled allows the selection criteria to select 2 contract lines instead of 1.

Profile Option Setup

In this example, we have 3 external purchase prices with corresponding lines and the selection criteria is set to lowest price. These are the BPAs with priority with or without this feature.

Example

The priority rank value of a blanket purchase agreement can be seen in the Oracle Procurement in the Order Processing section of the Agreement Controls tab.

This feature helps reduce manual intervention needed to create more than one BPA for an item. With multiple BPAs for a single item, you have the option to choose alternate supplies in case of a supply disruption.

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Tips And Considerations

Existing BPAs created before the profile option was set to Yes will remain without a priority number. Similarly, any user-selected lines that are created as purchase agreement lines are also created in BPAs without a priority assigned.

While creating purchase agreements from external purchase prices, multiple BPAs could get created based on the priority value along with the existing combination of requisitioning BU group, supplier, supplier site, currency, and source contract number.

Access Requirements

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

• Import Purchase Agreements from External Purchase Prices (SCH_UPDATE_BPA_FROM_EXTERNAL_PURCHASE_PRICES_PRIV)
• Import Blanket Purchase Agreement (PO_IMPORT_BLANKET_PURCHASE_AGREEMENT_PRIV)

These privileges were available prior to this update.