Route inventory min-max planning and PAR replenishment purchase requests through procurement approval workflow

Oracle Supply Chain Orchestration can now automatically route purchase requisitions originating from min-max planning and PAR replenishment through the Oracle Fusion Cloud Self Service Procurement approval workflow. This enhancement streamlines the replenishment process by enabling automated approval routing, improving governance, reducing manual intervention, and ensuring that procurement requests adhere to established approval policies before fulfillment.

Get these benefits:

• Route min-max and PAR replenishment purchase requisitions through existing approval policies automatically.
• Reduce manual work by eliminating the need to review and submit each min-max planning or PAR replenishment requisition individually.
• Improve governance and accountability by ensuring that purchase requisitions receive the appropriate approvals before fulfillment.
• Accelerate replenishment processing while preserving established procurement controls.
• Maintain flexibility by allowing preapproved, incomplete, and approval-required requisitions to follow the appropriate processing path. 

Improve governance and operational efficiency by automatically applying your existing approval policies to replenishment purchase requests. This reduces manual submission work while maintaining approval controls before fulfillment.

How it works:
Supply Chain Orchestration automatically routes purchase requisitions created from min-max Planning and PAR replenishment through the Oracle Self Service Procurement approval workflow. To use this behavior, set the Min-Max Replenishment Reorder Approval profile option to Approval required.

When Oracle Inventory Management creates a replenishment purchase request, it sends the authorization status to Supply Chain Orchestration. For requests that require approval, Supply Chain Orchestration creates the purchase requisition in Oracle Self Service Procurement and automatically initiates the approval workflow. Buyers and requesters no longer need to manually open and submit each replenishment requisition for approval.

Oracle Self Service Procurement applies your existing approval rules to the requisition. After the approval process is complete, the purchase requisition is approved and can continue through downstream procurement processing, including purchase order creation.
The feature preserves the processing behavior for other profile option values:

• Preapproved: The purchase requisition is created in approved status and bypasses approval routing.
• Incomplete: The purchase requisition is created in Incomplete status and requires manual submission for approval.
• Approval required: The purchase requisition is automatically routed through the approval workflow. 

Steps to enable and configure

Set the Min-Max Replenishment Reorder Approval profile option to Approval required / Incomplete / Preapproved.

Tips and considerations

• The requisition number is available as soon as Self Service Procurement creates the requisition. The purchase order number is available after the requisition is approved and the purchase order is created and approved.
• Approval routing uses your existing Oracle Self Service Procurement approval rules. Review those rules to ensure that the appropriate approvers are assigned for min-max planning and PAR replenishment requisitions.
• The profile option setting affects newly created replenishment purchase requisitions. Existing requisitions retain their current status and processing path.
• Min-max transfer requests and make requests aren't affected by this feature.
• The feature doesn’t change the approval behavior of purchase requests from other sources, including back-to-back, Supply Planning, Manufacturing, Contract Manufacturing, and manual supply requests.
• If approval rules are changed, subsequent replenishment requisitions use the updated rules. 

Key resources

• Overview of Setting Up Supply Chain Orchestration
• Using Supply Chain Orchestration

Access requirements

Privilege status	Privilege name and code
Existing	Process Supply Order Interface (DOS_PROCESS_SUPPLY_ORDER_INTERFACE_PRIV)
Existing	View Supply Orders (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDERS_PRIV)
Existing	Manage Supply Request Exceptions (DOS_MANAGE_SUPPLY_REQUEST_EXCEPTIONS_PRIV)
Existing	View Supply Order Exceptions and Status (DOS_VIEW_SUPPLY_ORDER_EXCEPTIONS_AND_STATUS_PRIV)