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Purchasing Questions

1. What is the difference between 'Accrue On Receipt' and 'Accrue at Period End'?
2.Why are expense items typically accrued at period-end, and why are inventory items always accrued on receipt?
3. Which Purchasing report should be used to review period-end accruals?
4. Which Purchasing report should be used to review online accruals?
5. After entering receipts and running the Receipt Accruals - Period-End Process, the new journals do not appear in the General Ledger. Should the transactions automatically appear in GL after performing these steps?
6.How can one tell whether each journal in the general ledger is for period- end or on receipt (online) accruals?
7. Does the process of reversing journals for period-end accruals occur automatically in GL?
8. For the Uninvoiced Receipts Report, what is the purpose of the parameter 'Accrued Receipts'?
9.A purchase order shipment was received against, then canceled. It now appears on the Uninvoiced Receipts report and accrues each month when running the Receipt accruals - Period-End process. Why is this happening?
10.How do transactions which have subtotals of $0.00 get removed from the Accrual Reconciliation Report?
11. Several transactions appear on the Accrual Reconciliation Report which were charged to the accrual account in error. Manual journal entries have already been created in GL to correct these transactions. How do these transactions now get removed from the report?
12. Will end-dating a position with approval authority have no affect on the employees who are tied to that position in terms of their ability to approve?
13. What impact, therefore, would end-dating a position have? The customer knows that in HR they cannot assign employees to end-dated positions.
14. What does the status 'INVALID' do to the position?
15. The errors in the log file of the Fill Employee Hierarchy report are a result of employees not being tied to a position. In the hierarchy, won't there be positions with no Employees tied to them from time to time? Does it mean that the customer has to disassociate the employees from the end-dated positions manually? Wouldn't this cause this type of error?
16. What are the actions for which we need to run the Fill Employee Hierarchy process?
17. Why does the Fill Employee Hierarchy report take a long time to complete?
18. Is the PO_EMPLOYEE_HIERARCHIES_ALL table defined at the operating unit level or at the Business Group level?
19. What does the status Pre-Approved mean, and how does a document reach this status?
20. What is the difference between DIRECT and HIERARCHY forwarding methods?
21. What is the significance of the Document Total and Account Range types on the Approval Groups form?
22. What is the significance of using jobs or positions, and what effect will choosing one or the other have on the document approval routing?
23. What is the difference between archiving on Approve versus Print?
24. How is it possible to approve a blanket release when the blanket purchase agreement is showing that the full amount has already been released?
25. I am delegating the approval of a PO to someone who does not have access to open this PO. Would he be able to approve it?
26. I have heard about something called AME for approvals in 11.5.10, what is it and can I use it on my earlier release?
27. I have heard of POERROR for improved error handling. What is this feature?
28. Is it possible to define position hierarchies, which span across multiple operating units?
29. What is global supervisor and how can I utilize that for approvals across business groups?
30. Does autocreate copies descriptive flexfields from the requisition to the document you create?
31. Does autocreate copy Notes from the requisition to the document you are creating?
32. What are the columns on which autocreate combines the requisition lines into a single document lines?
33. What price becomes the actual price in case multiple requisition lines with different prices are combined to single PO line?
34. What price becomes the actual price in case multiple requisition lines with different prices are combined to single PO line?
35. Does autocreate add to an existing PO shipment that has been encumbered?
36. What can be done to open the created document directly once autocreate is done successfully?
37. Can requisition line with item number and without item number [one time item] be combined to single document line in autocreate?
38. Can you autocreate a release if the description of the requisition created in PO is different of the description of the Blanket?
39. How do you prevent autocreate from seeing requisitions from another organization?
40. Can you autocreate from a quotation and tie the PO to the associated quotation and requisition?
41. Where does the note to buyer show on an autocreated PO?
42. Does the supplier name from a requisition get carried over to an autocreated purchase order?
43. What causes the APP-14090 error when autocreating a requisition?