Oracle SCM Functional Interview Questions & Answers - Purchasing Module - Part IV

Oracle SCM Functional Interview Questions & Answers - Purchasing Module - Part IV

How to reflect discount from a supplier on a Purchase orders? 

Purchase Order is a legal document not the quote and therefore the purchase order should reflect agreed upon price. Secondly if the discount comes after the PO then Oracle AP should handle it when invoicing. If a blanket Purchase order is used then price breaks can be used. 

How to change the created date on a Purchase Order? 

'Created date’ on the Purchase order is not an updateable field, due to it being a legal document once approved. 

What is the sorting order for requisition lines in autocreation of a Purchase Order?  

Requisition lines first meet search criteria determined by "find" screen, and then are grouped together by item and item category, then by need-by date. After an action is choosed, enter any search criteria to narrow the selection of requisition lines. Oracle Purchasing chooses requisition lines from the requisition pool that meets the search criteria. All requisition lines for the same item and item category are grouped together, but they are not necessarily in order alphabetically. Within each grouping of item and item category, requisition lines are ordered by need-by date. 

What does the error 'APP-50022: Oracle Human Resources could not retrieve a value for User Type profile option' mean? 

Profile Option ‘HR: User Type’ needs to be set. Set the profile option 'HR: User Type' at the Responsibility level. 

Why the action options for creating receipts different in Inventory are compared Purchasing? When in the Enter Receipts form and using different responsibilities produces different values in the action required field. Purchasing Responsibility shows Direct and Standard while the Inventory Responsibility shows Direct.

Set the Profile option ‘RCV: Allow routing override’ to 'YES' at the application level. 

How to purge Cancelled Requisitions? 

To purge any Purchase orders or Requisitions:

Assign the Payables Purge GUI responsibility to the user – have the user choose that responsibility, then choose Purge from the menu. Under the Category field do a List of Values and pick Simple Requisitions for cancelled requisitions the choices are listed. 

On the requisition form in the source details block, there is a field labelled supplier item. Where does this information on the quick-pick come from and how can this information default in? 

The supplier item field on the requisition can be populated by using either the supplier item catalog or ASL. Take an item from the supplier item catalog that has an associated supplier item, add it to the order pad and then add it to the requisition. After doing this go to the source details zone.

The supplier item is defaulted in for that item chosen from the catalog.

Navigation:

India Local Purchasing Responsibility > Oracle Purchasing > Supplier Item catalog

User entering a requisition and unable to find the header or line note fields. Was this replaced in GUI by attachments?
The attachments have replaced notes. The attachments are better because at the header level, the requisition notes were not coming over to the Purchase Order whereas the attachment does come over to the Purchase Order.

When user selects the Notifications form to review approvals and click on approve button for a Requisition waiting for approval, the 'Reject' box is greyed out. How does the approver reject a requisition?

User cannot reject Requisitions submitted by him. User can only reject those from others.

What are standard Quotations used for?
Standard quote is one that can be tied back to a PO.

Example, navigate to
RFQ > Auto create > Enter a PO and reference it back.

When does the status of a Purchase order can been seen as Archived?
User must approve or print a specific purchase order before this it can be seen it in the history information.

Where are standard notes in GUI?
Navigate to

Setup > Attachments > Create attachment.

Now navigate to Purchase Order and attach the attachment to the Purchase Order.

In GUI, notes are replaced by attachments.

In Oracle Purchasing, where is the automatic numbering for Purchase Order defined and maintained?
Navigation path to define the purchase order auto numbering is:
Setup > Organizations > Purchasing Options > Numbering alternate region
Navigation path for Character is:

Setup > Purchasing Options > Purchasing > Numbering options
 

There is a field for the organization code. What is this code?
This code is a short abbreviation for the organization.

Can the original Purchase Order can be viewed in any way without resorting to SQL, for a revised Purchase Order?
Original version of a revised PO cannot be viewed from the PO form or PO summary form. Information on the original PO can be obtained from the po_headers_archive and po_lines_archive tables using the PO_HEADER_ID column as a common reference using SQL only.

Reference: Collected from various web sources.

Please do refer below links for Oracle SCM Functional interview questions & Answers on Purchasing module.

http://learnoraclecsbscm.blogspot.in/2015/05/oracle-purchasing-module-scm-functional.html

http://learnoraclecsbscm.blogspot.in/2015/08/oracle-scm-functional-interview_56.html

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