Period In-transit Inventory Valuation Report for Purchase Orders

Use the Period In-transit Inventory Valuation Report for Purchase Orders to review detailed in-transit information for each purchase order schedule and shipment line. This report also provides a summary of in-transit amounts, distributions amounts, and final accounted amounts by inventory organization for a period.

When to Use

This report is automatically generated when you run the Record In-transit Inventory and Expense for External Purchases process. This report is typically generated at the end of the financial reporting period.

Privileges Required

Record In-Transit Inventory and Expense for External Purchases (CMR_RECORD_INTRANSIT_INVENTORY_PURCHSE_ORDER_PRIV)

Specifications

Review the following before setting up this process:

Specification	Description
Job Type	Ad hoc job/on demand.
Frequency	You are encouraged to generate this report at least once per reporting period. You should avoid scheduling this process more frequently than necessary for your business purposes. Avoid scheduling the process on a frequency that might overlap. Ensure that you maintain a lag between the end of a scheduled process and the start of the next scheduled process.
Time of Day	Any time.
Duration	Runtime of this process will vary based on the number of transactions in the period.
Compatibility	The process is designed to automatically detect incompatibilities and will gracefully branch around the incompatibility, log errors, and exit when necessary. However, it's highly recommended to schedule the processes in such a way as to avoid overlapping process runs.

Parameters

Parameter	Optional or Required	Description	Parameter Value	Special Combinations Required	Notes
Bill to Business Unit	Required	You can run the process for a specific Bill to Business Unit. The application intelligently processes the data for only those profit center business units of the Bill to Business Unit to which you have data access and have pending transactions to be processed.	Bill to Business Unit name	N/A	If you don't have data access to the selected Bill to Business Unit, the process ends with Warning status.
Destination Type	Required	You can run the process for Inventory or Expense destinations or both	Inventory (default) Expense Both	N/A	N/A
Accounting Period	Required	The accounting period for which you want to run the process.	Period name	N/A	N/A

Parameter

Optional or Required

Description

Parameter Value

Special Combinations Required

Notes

Bill to Business Unit

Required

You can run the process for a specific Bill to Business Unit. The application intelligently processes the data for only those profit center business units of the Bill to Business Unit to which you have data access and have pending transactions to be processed.

Bill to Business Unit name

N/A

If you don't have data access to the selected Bill to Business Unit, the process ends with Warning status.

Destination Type

Required

You can run the process for Inventory or Expense destinations or both

Inventory (default)

Expense

Both

N/A

Accounting Period

Required

The accounting period for which you want to run the process.

Period name

N/A

You can optionally set the advanced parameters listed here.

Option	Description	Value	Notes
Schedule	Use this option to select the frequency of generating the report.	As soon as possible Using a schedule	N/A
Output	Use this option to control the layout & output file format of the report.	Name: User-defined Layout: Default Format: HTML, CSV, Excel, PDF, Data, RTF	N/A
Notification	Use this option to trigger notifications for the users.	Recipient Condition	N/A

Troubleshooting Information

You can view the status of the process in the Scheduled Processes work area.
Error and warning messages encountered while running the process are displayed in the process log file.
When the process is submitted, you can Resubmit, Put on Hold, Cancel Process, Release Process as provided by the Scheduled Processes work area.
To run the process, you must have data access to the appropriate Business Unit. If you don't have data access, the process ends with a Warning status.