Generic Requisition business object

The generic Requisition business object contains information that supports procurement business processes. Its attributes contain information to support the creation of such procurement objects as Purchase Requisition, Purchase Order (PO), and Stock Requisition. It also contains information about Item, Vendor Item, Manufacturer Item, and Vendor.

The procurement process involves many stages. A Customer Interaction Management (CIM) application usually generates the initial demand or Stock Requisition as an indication of a desire for a part. The CIM application sends the requisition to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, which completes the processing.

Usually the ERP application runs a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) program to plan the Stock Requisition. The ERP application also converts the requisition into either a work order (make) or a purchase requisition (buy). The purchase requisition goes through various stages of approval and sourcing, and then is generally promoted to a purchase order.

Because Requisition can be used in any stage of the procurement lifecycle, it can represent any of the objects used in the cycle.

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Business object structure

Requisition is a hierarchical business object that contains vendor information in its header. Its RequisitionLine child business object contains information for each line item. RequisitionLine has two child business objects that contain information for delivery schedules and purchasing accounts. Figure 1 illustrates the generic Requisition business object hierarchy.

Figure 1. The generic Requisition business object hierarchy

Requisition header

Requisition contains demand header data from the purchase requisition, purchase order, or stock requisition triggered by the source application. Its attributes store such header data as the requestor, purchasing organization, and vendor account information. The Requisition header business object contains the RequisitionLine child business object with cardinality of n.

Child business object Description Cardinality
RequisitionLine Identifies the item for which the demand has been created, the quantity requested for purchase, units of measure, requested delivery date, and the storage location where the item is stored. Other attributes give the business object the flexibility to capture data relevant to the creation of a purchase requisition or purchase order. n
ItemDeliverySchedules Contained by RequisitionLine, contains the delivery schedule information for each item on the RequisitionLine that needs to be purchased. It includes the quantity that is to be delivered by a vendor and the date when goods or services are to be delivered. n
RequisitionAccountAssignment Contained by RequisitionLine, contains account information for each item, including recipient, accounting entity, cost center, and quantity of item delivered. n

Supported verbs

The generic Requisition business object supports the following verbs:

Examining the object

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