Oracle Purchasing: Buyer Work Center (Bulkload /update feature in Blanket Agreements BPA)

Objective:

In this article we will see what is buyer work center and its benefits and talk more on "Upload feature in  Agreements"

What is buyer work center:

Buyer work center is a web application application. it is a new feature in R12.

It can be accessed through Purchasing super user responsibility.

Benefits:

1. Gives buyer handy way to access demand workbench (PO, Requisition) in a simple view and easy access.
2. Can create standard PO, Blanket Purchase agreements, etc.
3. Easy to create and maintain day-to-day activities.

Bulload or Update Agreements:

Prior to R12 if buyer want to update 100+ lines on the agreement he had to either update each line manually or IT had to create some custom upload functionality and use standard APIs to create upload feature to correct multiple lines on the agreement.

In R12 oracle has given bulk feature to create or update multiple lines on an agreements.

How can this be achieved?

Detail information can be found in Oracle document ID: 1309351.1