Allow Notes Entry When Submitting Purchase Orders for Approval using API

This improvement to the purchase order update API allows buyers to enter notes when submitting a purchase order for approval. This is the justification in the approval options. Buyer can enter this justification in the Buyer Work Center while creating or updating the purchase order. With this improvement, if you use APIs to submit orders for approval, then you can now provide justifications, making the approval process streamlined and efficient, as the approver will have more information about the goods and services being procured.

Prior to Release 12.2.15, notes could not be entered during the API submission, making it harder for approvers to have all relevant information.

Changes to Existing Flow

  1. Suppliers can send notes while submitting a PO change request using PO_CHANGE_API1_S.UPDATE_PO through a newly added parameter in the API.
  2. Buyers can also send notes when submitting a PO for approval using PO_DOCUMENT_UPDATE_GRP.UPDATE_DOCUMENT through a newly added parameter in the API.

Po Change API with New parameter

Steps to Enable

You don't need to do anything to enable this feature.

Key Resources

For more information, refer to How To Use the PO Change API To Update Existing Purchase Orders (Doc ID 1078842.1) on My Oracle Support.