Automate Approved Purchase Requsition to Approved Purchase Order

Question

Hi all,
How can we automate the flow from the Approved Purchase Requisition to Approved PO.
What are the basic setups(ASL, SOURCING RULES) needed?
To brief it, by Requisition Import process we get approved PURCHASE REQUISITION.
In a similar fashion, can we automate(not with autocreate) creation of approved PO without choosing supplier, for each item/requisition ?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Kumar

Answer 1

HI ,
Find below the set up steps for Auto creation of PO.
1.Valid Contract agreement need to be available for the supplier site.
WF set up :
Create Documents workflow attribute :
“Is Automatic Creation Allowed?” set to “Yes”
Should Contract be used to autocreate Doc?” set to “Yes”
"Is automatic approval allowed" set to Yes
"Should Non catalog requests be autosourced from contract" set to YES
"Is contract required on requistion line" set to Yes
In req. approval WF :
'Send PO Autocreation to Background' set to NO for launcing the WF background process to be launched immediately.
In PO module :
PO: Automatic Document Sourcing -- set it to NO
create Sourcing rule and ASL ,Provide the Contract info in ASL and set the release method as "Release using Autocreate"
Note : In case of NCR from iproc which has the item category alone,ASL is not required for auto creation of PO.
Once all this setup is done ,import the req and it would be converted into a std. PO.Hope this suffices.
Subbu