Overview of Direct Procurement of Materials

You can procure materials directly for work order operations. You can do the following:

• Initiate the creation of a purchase requisition against a work order operation to manually procure items that are required to execute a specific work order operation.

  This capability is also supported for project-specific work orders. The project and task on the work order are defaulted onto the requisition line and you are required to enter other project costing attributes such as expenditure type and expenditure item date. It's important to note that the project/task on the requisition line must match with project and task on the associated work order.

  This capability is also supported for items that are directly procured for work orders with lot and / or serial controlled items.

• View the list of items procured for work order operations in a work order and the purchasing document details.

• Initiate corrective actions required to manage the purchased items, such as returning materials to suppliers or receiving and correcting receipt or return quantities from Receiving.

• Display purchased items for work orders in production reports and transaction history.

• View lot and serial numbers of items that are directly procured for work orders in transaction history.

• Analyze purchased items for work orders in Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) which displays the analysis of purchased items for work orders.