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Overriding Purchase Demands

You can make changes to a planned and/or approved purchase demand (from a requisition or a work order requirement) from the My Desk view. Your changes are saved and carried to the purchase order line created for the purchase demand. The original purchase demand information is also saved for reference.

Once you have reviewed the purchase demand and entered any necessary overrides, you can mark the demand as reviewed so that it can be added to a purchase order.

Note: The My Desk view only displays the tabs described below if you are set up as a buyer on your employee record and the Purchasing Desk option is selected on the My Desk Settings tab.

To Override Purchase Demands

1.	Select the site’s My Desk view and the Purchase Demands tab.

2.	Select Waiting to be reviewed by you from the configuration list.

Tip: To see unreviewed purchase demands for all buyers, select Waiting to be reviewed by purchasing from the configuration list.

3.	Right-click the demand and select Override Requestor Information. The Override Request Info dialog appears.

4.	Enter the appropriate changes:

Setting Name

Description

Demand Description

A description of the requirements.

Purchase priority

The selected purchase priority for this resource demand. You can select from the list of priorities defined for the site.

Buyer

The name of the buyer who will process this resource demand.

Unit cost or Rate

The cost per unit for the demand. If you are entering a non-catalog resource, you can enter the unit cost here. If you have selected a supplier resource with a current price, or a warehouse issue, the system enters the unit cost and you cannot change it unless you are a buyer. Since inventory unit costs change over time as you purchase materials, the current unit cost is retained to provide costing stability.

5.	Repeat steps 2 to 4 for each purchase demand you need to override.

6.	Once you have entered changes, you can view the original purchase demand information on the Original Request tab.

When you are finished reviewing the purchase demand, you can mark it as having been reviewed. For more information, see Marking Demand as Reviewed.