Oracle External Purchase Price Approvals Setup

In the Setup and Maintenance work area, you can enable approvals to create and maintain approval rules for Manage Approvals for Oracle External Purchase Price approval workflow.

From the Functional Setup Manager, this workflow provides the stage and participants out-of-the-box and enables you to organize and author approval routing rules for external purchase prices approval tasks.

Define the approval rules by selecting values for the line level attributes. Deploy the rules after you create new rules or update existing rules for the changes to take effect in the approval workflow. This also updates the approval rules created using the Manage Task Configurations setup.

External Purchase Prices Stage

Seeded Participants

• External Purchase Price Routing Participants (FYI) - All identified participants will receive an FYI notification.

• External Purchase Price Parallel Approvers - All identified approvers receive a notification for approval in parallel. Approval is required from all approvers.

• External Purchase Price Single Approvers - Approvals are routed in parallel for this participant type. This participant type is more commonly used in conjunction with approval groups. The first responder to provide approve or reject action will represent the outcome of all remaining approvers.

• External Purchase Price Serial Approvers - Approvals are routed in serial. Approval process is completed sequentially from approver to approver.

The tables contain external purchase prices approval header and line level attributes.

Attribute	Notes
Requisitioning BU	The business unit that approves the external purchase prices.
External Purchase Price Number	The unique number that identifies the external purchase price.
Source Contract Reference	The contract with which the external price is associated.
Source Contract Type	The type of source contract.
Manufacturer Name	The manufacturer name.
Supplier	The name of the supplier.
Supplier Site	The name of the supplier site.
Currency	The currency of the external purchase price.
Document Type	EXTERNAL_PURCHASE_PRICE - In case of approval for a new external purchase price. CHANGE_ORDER - In case of approval for a change order.
Change Order Type	CHANGE - Change order for change to header or line attributes (includes cancellation of lines in an approved external purchase price.) CANCEL - Change order for cancellation of an approved price external purchase price. This is applicable only for change orders and not for new external purchase prices.
Manufacturer Part Number	The manufacturer part number of the line.
Supplier Part Number	The supplier part number assigned to the line.
Item Number	The item number of the line.
Purchasing Category	Name of the purchasing category.
Final Price	The final price for the line item.
Price Difference Value	The difference between New Price - Old Price. The value should be null in case of new line item. It should be zero when there is no change to the line price in case of change order.
Price Difference Percent	The value is determined as follows: (New Price - Old Price) / Old Price * 100. Example - Old Price $10.00, New Price $8.60, Price Difference Percent = - 14.00 The value should be null for a new line item. It should be zero when there is no change to the line Price in case of change order.