Applies to:

Oracle Purchasing - Version: 11.5.10 and later [Release: 11.5 and later ] Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose
The document lists some of the frequently asked questions and answers related to the BWC (Buyer Work Center)

Questions and Answers What is Professional Buyer's Work Centre?

Begining from In R12, a web based interface for buyers has been introduced which allows the buyers to manage all their purchasing related activities and provides complete view of the purchasing process relevant to them. The features available are Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Agreements, Deliverables, Negotiations and Suppliers. We will discuss Requisitions and Purchase Orders here. The Buyer's Work Center Orders user interface optimizes the standard purchase order creation and management processes. Buyers can edit and view delivery schedules and account distributions across all order lines, thus eliminating the need to drilldown on individual lines. For simple purchase orders that do not require staged delivery schedules or multiple account distributions, buyers can quickly enter all necessary information for the order in the header and line sections, without having to navigate to the schedules and distributions sections. Based on a web-based user interface, the Buyer's Work Center is a central desktop from which buyers can efficiently perform their daily tasks. You can:

Access requisition demand in the Demand Workbench. Create a new standard purchase order, blanket purchase agreement, or contract purchase agreement . Create and maintain supplier information. If Oracle Sourcing is licensed and implemented, create buyer's auctions or sourcing RFQs If Oracle Services Procurement is licensed and implemented, create and maintain purchase orders for complex work payments If Oracle Procurement Contracts is licensed and implemented, author contract terms and manage deliverables Create and personalize your own document views including list of columns, where conditions, and sort sequences. Use predefined document views

Buyers Work Center Modules :

Sourcing create and manage negotiations Contracts author clauses and manage deliverables Services procurement of complex services iProcurement execution of procurement

processes based on above modules

How to find information in BWC (Buyer Work Center) that were entered at the purchase order line in "Purchase Entry" form, but this information seems missing in the HTML "purchase orders" screen?
1. 2. Navigate to the BWC, then to "Source Document" section in the Line update page (line summary => pencil icon). In BWC, the default page definition hides the less frequently used fields (It can be displayed by personalization):

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Enable profiles: Personalize Self-Service Defn and FND: Personalization Region Link Enabled to Yes to the user doing personalization. Click the Personalize Page link. Click Expand All. Click the personalize pencil in the attribute to personalize. Change the attribute to Rendered as true. Click Apply, then Return to the Application.

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Or, if you use the functional administrator responsibility => personalization you can notice these fields in the /oracle/apps/po/document/order/webui/OrderLineDetailsPG

What are the steps to get a Descriptive FlexField to appear in the PBWC?
Following setup steps need to be completed : 1. 2. 3. Navigate to System Administrator and create a DFF under Application - Purchasing / PO Headers and as usual. Confirm the setup by compiling the DFF and checking the DFF in the PO Entry form. Open the PBWC and click on Create a "New Standard PO".

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Clicked on the Personalize link. Update the Rendered to True in "Header:Details" and "Flex: (HeaderRN.Flexfields). The DFF should now be visible in the PBWC.

How do I enable DFF for PO Lines in EBS - R12 ?

I have compiled the PO Lines DFF using Attribute 1 and 2 ... but it does not display on the PO Lines screens.Do I have to do something in the personalization screens too for DFF to display ? Answer. Yes, you need to perform additional steps in the personalization screens to enable PO Line DFF in the Buyer Work Center page. 1. Log in to the application using Functional Administrator responsibility Note: If you do not have Functional Administrator responsibility then you need to first navigate to the respective page before clicking Personalize Page at the top or bottom of the page. You need to enable profile Personalize Self-Service Defn to yes at the user level. If you are using this approach and not through Functional Administrator responsibility then, after navigating to the respective page look for 'Header: Details' section under Personalization Structure. Continue from step # 4 after that. 2. Select the 'Personalization' tab 3. Query for Application = Purchasing Document Path =/oracle/apps/po/document/order/webui/OrderLineDetailsPG i.e. function 'PO Order Line Details Page' Once the document is returned, click on the pencil icon Personalize Page. Choose the appropriate context (Function, Site included, Organization, Responsibility etc). Then press Apply. In the next page, select Expand All and then look for 'Header: Details' section. 4. Click on the pencil icon Personalize for both records a. 'Header: Details' b. then 'Flex: (PoLinesFlex)' For 'Header: Details', make sure the region is Rendered by changing the value Rendered from False (the original definition) to true. Confirm the result is true. Press Apply. For 'Flex: (PoLinesFlex)', also make sure Rendered is set to true. 5. Close the application and relogin to the application. If you are creating PO line through Buyer Work Center page then after entering item, quantity etc press 'Update' pencil icon (just next to Duplicate & Delete) under 'Actions'. You PO line DFF segments will show up in the details page along with other line details. If you want to enable PO Line DFF in the PO lines Summary page then use following details and repeat the steps mentioned above: Application = Purchasing Document Path =/oracle/apps/po/document/order/webui/OrderLinesSummaryRN Records: Column: (FlexCol) Flex: (Flex) The navigation path was already given for Functional Administrator responsibility. Here is some more texts for you are not aware with the Functional Administrator responsibility . 1. Log in to the application using Functional Administrator responsibility After login once you select Functional Administrator responsibility a OAF page will open. At the top of the OAF page you'll see 4 tabs: Security, Core Services, Personalization and File Manager 2. Select the 'Personalization' tab from there If you see the steps 1 & 2, I had given an alternate navigation in case you don't have Functional Administrator responsibility. I have just edited that portion now to provide some additional instructions. If you are using this approach then you'll NOT find 'Personalization' tab, but Personalize Page as I have mentioned. Ref. : Thread: R12 - Buyer Work Center PO Lines DFF ?

How To Diagnose Issues in OA Framework in iProcurement or Buyer Work Center?

Document 602996.1 explains how to diagnose issues in OA Framework in iProcurement or Buyer Work Center

What are the Requisition Management Profile Options?

PO: Document Builder Default Document Type: The document type that is defaulted into the document builder region.

Profile Value Add to PO New RFQ New Auction New PO

Description Add to an existing Purchase Order Create a new Sourcing RFQ Create a new Sourcing Auction Create a new Purchase Order

PO: Default Requisition Grouping : The default for grouping requisition lines onto a Sourcing RFQ/Auction or PO.
Profile Default Requisition Value Description Group requisition lines using the default grouping. One or more requisition lines can be associated with one purchase order line. Group requisition lines using requisition grouping. One requisition line can be associated with one purchase order line

What are the Purchase Orders Profile Options ?

PO: Auto Apply Default Contract Template : Default Contract template in the PO.

What are the documents not supported in PBWC?

Following document types are not supported in PBWC :

Planned PO Local Blanket Agreement Local Contract Agreement Scheduled Releases BPA Releases Quotations RFQs

Are Preferences supported in PBWC?

Preferences are not supported in PBWC

Related Products

Oracle E-Business Suite > Procurement > Procurement > Oracle Purchasing

Keywords BUYER WORK CENTER; WORK CENTER

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