How can I find requestor, preparer and owner of a PO?

Question

Hi,
I know the buyer is the agent_id in po_headers_all table.
But how do I find the requestor and preparer/owner of the PO?
How do these values get populated?
What if the PO is touchless? How do the preparer attribute gets populated?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Sudarshan,
Your question is : Who can be the preparer if the purchase requisition for the PO is being prepared from iProcurement and PO is automatically created with AUTOCREATE workflow without buyer intervention?
Ans : a) When you create a requisition using iProcurement (catalog requisition), you normally search items under shop which are linked to BPAs. When requisition is approved and a standard PO is auto created and auto approved then the Std PO carries the buyer name of the BPA which was used during requisition creation.
b) For non-catalog request (requisition)/smartform it refer the CPA of the buyer while creating a std PO.
Earlier you asked : how do I find the requestor and preparer/owner of the PO? How do these values get populated?
Ans : Sandeep has said it correctly that in PO, there is no concept of requester/preparer etc.. Buyer of the PO will be treated as requestor and preparer/owner of the PO. This value is populated as mentioned above in point a).
Kind Regards,
S.P DASH