Use these procedures to act on purchase requisition work items that are assigned to you from Workflow. If your organization is using Role Centers and your work list is displayed on your Role Center, the work list displays your Workflow work items. For more information about work lists, see Manage and use work lists.

Note Note

If your organization is not using Role Centers, you can skip steps 1 and 2 in the following procedures and perform the remaining steps in the form.


Complete a purchase requisition

Use this procedure to complete a purchase requisition when a completion task has been assigned to you from Workflow.

Note Note

A completion task can be performed by only one user. If a completion task is assigned to several users, you must first click > to accept the completion task, and then perform the task. When you accept the completion task, the task is no longer assigned to the other users and is removed from their work lists.


  1. Click Homeon the Navigation Pane and find your work list on your Role Center.

  2. Click the completion task that was assigned to you. The form opens and displays the purchase requisition to complete.

  3. Enter the required information. Instructions are displayed in the message bar at the top of the form.

    You can change the information in most of the fields, except for the fields on the tab. You also can:

    • Delete and add purchase requisition lines (but you cannot delete the entire purchase requisition).

    • Create a request for quote from the purchase requisition. For more information, see Create a request for quote from a purchase requisition.

    • Choose from all vendors for purchase requisition items, not just the vendors that are associated with an item on a line.

  4. Click > to complete the purchase requisition and submit it to Workflow.

Approve a purchase requisition

Use this procedure to approve a purchase requisition when an approval task has been assigned to you from Workflow.

  1. Click Homeon the Navigation Pane and find your work list on your Role Center.

  2. Click the approval task that was assigned to you. The form opens and displays the purchase requisition to approve.

  3. Verify that the information on the purchase requisition is correct and click > to approve it. The purchase requisition status changes from to , and one or more purchase orders can be created based on the purchase requisition.

Note Note

You cannot make changes to the fields in the form when you are approving purchase requisitions. Only the user who requested the items on the purchase requisition can make changes. You must return the purchase requisition to that user and request changes, or ask that user to cancel the purchase requisition.


Request changes to a purchase requisition

Use this procedure to request that a user change a purchase requisition before you approve it. The user can change the information in most of the fields in the form, except for the fields on the tab. The user also can:

  • Delete purchase requisition lines (but not the entire purchase requisition).

  • Add purchase requisition lines.

  • Choose from all vendors for purchase requisition items, not just the vendors that are associated with an item on a line.

  1. Click Homeon the Navigation Pane and find your work list on your Role Center.

  2. Click the approval task that was assigned to you. The form opens and displays the purchase requisition to approve.

  3. Click > to request a change.

  4. In the dialog box, select the user to send the change request to. You also can type a message to provide more information. The purchase requisition status changes from to , and a workflow work item is assigned to the selected user.

Delegate a purchase requisition approval

Use this procedure to delegate the approval of a purchase requisition to another user.

  1. Click Homeon the Navigation Pane and find your work list on your Role Center.

  2. Click the approval task that was assigned to you. The form opens and displays the purchase requisition to approve.

  3. Click > to delegate the purchase requisition to another user.

  4. In the dialog box, select the user to delegate the approval to. You also can type a message to provide more information. The purchase requisition status remains as , and a workflow approval task is assigned to the selected user.

Reject a purchase requisition

Use this procedure to reject a purchase requisition when an approval task has been assigned to you from Workflow.

  1. Click Homeon the Navigation Pane and find your work list on your Role Center.

  2. Click the approval task that was assigned to you. The form opens and displays the purchase requisition to approve.

  3. Click > to reject the purchase requisition. In the dialog box, you can type a message to provide more information. The purchase requisition status changes from to .

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