Organize Your Purchase Requests into Groups

Use your own group to manage purchase requests in the Replenishment Planning work area.

You can use a predefined group such as Buyer, Category, Item, Location, Supplier, or None. You can also create your own group, and then use it to organize purchase requests into a group and take advantage of price breaks, order minimums, and so on. Supply Chain Orchestration will send your custom group for each purchase request to Oracle Procurement. Procurement will group these purchase requests into purchase requisitions according to the value that you set in the Group attribute.

Assume you have a replenishment plan named REPL-VISION-OPERATIONS. You want to group all of that plan's purchase orders that you get from your Vision Manufacturing supplier and that are marked for release into a group named Vision's Purchase Orders.

1. Make sure you have buyer planning privileges. If you don't have them, you won't be able to access the Replenishment Planning workarea.
2. If you have a pop-up blocker on your browser, disable it.
3. Go to the Replenishment Planning workarea.
4. Click Plans (it's the icon immediately below the Tasks icon).
5. Expand Plans, click REPL-VISION-OPERATIONS, then click Actions > Open.

   Notice that the work area opens a new tab that has the REPL-VISION-OPERATIONS plan.

6. On the REPL-VISION-OPERATIONS tab, click Actions > View Buyer Planning.

   Notice that the workarea opens a new browser tab.

7. In the new browser window, click Buyer Planning.
8. On the Buyer Planning page, find the row that has your supplier.

   Attribute	Description
   Supplier	Vision Manufacturing

9. Click the link in the Order Lines attribute on that row. The workarea opens a new page.
10. Click the Order Type header to sort the rows alphabetically on the new page.
11. Add a check mark to the check box on each row that contains these values.

    Attribute	Description
    Status	Marked for Release You can only group rows that are Marked for Release.
    Order Type	Purchase Order

12. Click Group Orders.
13. In the dialog that displays, enter the value, then click Save.

    Attribute	Description
    Group Name	Vision's Purchase Orders

    Supply Chain Orchestration will send all lines that are in the Vision's Purchase Orders group to Oracle Procurement as a group. Procurement will group these lines into a single purchase requisition.