CHAPTER2Purchasing Setups
Purchasing, Procurement, Supply Chain: call it what you will, but it is how your company gets all kinds of stuff. When this process is combined in an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) package such as Oracle E-Business Suite, things can get complicated pretty quickly. Understanding the setups involved that make the system tick can help uncomplicate things, providing the foundation needed to make EBS work for your company instead of the other way around. This chapter will be broken into two main sections: required setups to use the basics of the purchasing module, and optional setups to make the system do more of the work.
In its most simple terms, EBS allows a user to create a purchase order, approve it, print ...
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