Oracle Purchasing Enables The Automatic Creation of Sourcing Rules Setup

Oracle Purchasing enables the automatic creation of Sourcing Rules, Sourcing Rule

Assignments and Approved Supplier List entries during Blanket Agreement approval

submission. The system automatically creates the relevant entries, once the Blanket

Agreement is approved

1) A new Profile Option "PO: Allow Auto-generate Sourcing Rules and ASL" has been

introduced. The default value is 'None'. In order to activate this feature, the profile option

value needs to be set to either "Create Only" or "Create and Update".

If the value is set to "Create only" then the "Enable Automatic Sourcing" checkbox and

the "Release Generation Method" field are visible and can be updated on the Approval

window.

If the value is set to "Create and Update", then the "Enable Automatic Sourcing"

Checkbox, the "Update Sourcing Rule and ASL Entries" checkbox and the "Release

Generation Method" field are visible and can be updated on the Approval window.

Note: If the Archival mode being used for Blanket Agreements is "Archive on Print", this

feature cannot be used and the new fields and checkboxes would not be visible in the

Approval window. User must select "Archive on Approve" to use this feature

2. Sourcing Rule Name Prefix can be customized. The prefix value is read from the

activity attribute "PO Sourcing Rule Name Prefix" in PO Approval Workflow. The

default value is "PURCH".

Note: The new Sourcing Rules will be assigned
at the Item Level and will be added to the

assignment set that is specified in the profile option "MRP: Default Sourcing Rule

Assignment set". The ASL will be created as a Global ASL

This process will update existing Sourcing rules only if all of the following are true:

1. The sourcing rule is not assigned to any other item.

2. The Blanket purchase order Start and End Dates are not null.

3. If the update requires extension of any existing effective period in the Sourcing Rule,

there can be only one Supplier/Site for that effective period and must match the

supplier/site on the blanket purchase order.

4. The blanket effective period do not overlap multiple effective periods in the Sourcing

Rule.

The process will try to create or update Approved Supplier List entries even if Sourcing

Rule creation/update failed for the Blanket Agreement line item