How You Automate Purchase Order Creation for Back-to-Back Items

Automating creation of purchase orders for back-to-back items can save you time and effort, especially when there's a high volume of transactions.

This topic provides supporting documentation for an optional step in the Setting Up Back-to-Back Fulfillment roadmap. You enable automation controls for purchase order creation in the set up for the governing blanket purchase agreements.

There are three prerequisite requirements before you can automate purchase order creation for your back-to-back order items.

• You must have enabled back-to-back fulfillment for Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement. For details, see Enabling Procurement to Support Back-to-Back Fulfillment: Procedure.

• Suppliers and supplier sites must have been created. Each supplier site must be set up with a Procurement business unit that's a service provider for the requisitioning business unit that's ordering the item. The supplier's site assignment page must list the requisitioning business units for the site. For more information on creating suppliers and supplier sites and creating Procurement business units, see the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement: Implementing Procurement guide. For more information on managing suppliers and supplier sites, see the Implementing Drop Ship section in the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM: Implementing Order Management guide.

After the prerequisite requirements are met, you can create blanket purchase agreements to automate purchase order creation for back-to-back order items. When creating the blanket purchase agreements, make sure to set the following automation control options:

• Automatically generate orders. This option enables automated conversion of purchase requisitions to purchase orders.

• Automatically submit for approval. This option enables automated submission of purchase orders for approval.

For more information on creating blanket purchase agreements, see the Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement: Using Procurement guide.