How You Set Up Back-to-Back Order Fulfillment

Before you can process procurement transactions for back-to-back items, you must perform setup tasks for the procurement offering, suppliers and agreements.

Perform the following procurement-specific setup to support transactions for back-to-back items:

Enable the Customer Sales Order Fulfillment feature.
Set up suppliers and supplier sites for your back-to-back items.
Set up blanket purchase agreements for your back-to-back items.

How You Enable Customer Sales Order Fulfillment

In the Offerings work area, enable the Customer Sales Order Fulfillment feature in the Procurement offering, in the Procurement functional area.

How You Set up Supplier and Supplier Site

You must set up suppliers and supplier sites for your back-to-back items. Do this in the Suppliers work area, Manage Suppliers task.

Use the Sites tab to create each supplier site within the context of the procurement business unit which provides procurement services for the site.
Each site must have the Purchasing check box selected, to specify the site fulfills the purchasing function for the client (requisitioning) business units.
For each site, use the Site Assignment tab to assign each client (requisitioning) business unit for which the site fulfills the purchasing function.

How You Set up Blanket Purchase Agreement

You must set up blanket purchase agreements for your back-to-back sales order items. Do this using the Create Agreements task, in the Purchase Agreements and Purchase Orders work areas.

In the agreement line, Item field, enter the back-to-back item.
Optionally, you can select the following check boxes to support the automatic creation of purchase orders (POs) from requisitions. Do this on the Controls tab, in the Order Creation Options region.
- Automatically generate orders
- Automatically submit for approval
Also in the Order Creation Options region, select the following check boxes. This enables the grouping of requisition lines with the same sales order number, to be placed on a single PO.
- Group requisitions
- Use customer sales order

For more information about setting up back-to-back order fulfillment, see the SCM Cloud Implementing Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management guide.