Enabling the Indirect Procurement Feature

The Indirect Procurement Feature Console feature configures Order and Inventory Management to use the Purchase Accruals functionality so that purchase order lines of type Description, Capital Equipment, and Category generate an inventory transaction perpetual record with two associated inventory transaction financial records. These records can be used to produce journals in Accounting. The transactions are generated in the following cases:

• When the purchaser order lines are received.
• When their related AP voucher is matched.

Note:

If the Indirect Procurement feature is not enabled:

• Only purchase order lines of type Item can post to the General Ledger automatically on receipt.
• Purchase order lines of type Description, Capital Equipment, and Category can only post to the General Ledger after their related AP voucher is matched and pushed to Accounting as a payable invoice via the Order and Inventory Management – Accounting Connector.

Feature Console

The Feature Console steps that configure Order and Inventory Management for indirect procurement are as follows:

1. Perform this step to automatically add new values to the picklist on the GL Account object:
   1. Add or activate Accrued Purchases
   2. Add or activate Expenses
   3. Add or activate Goods Received Not Invoiced
2. Perform this step to automatically add new values to the picklist on the Inventory Transaction Financial Record object:
   1. Add or activate Accrued Purchases
   2. Add or activate Expenses
   3. Add or activate Goods Received Not Invoiced
3. Perform this step to automatically add new values to the picklist on the Inventory Transaction Perpetual Record object:
   1. Add or activate Accrual Reversal
   2. Add or activate AP Voucher Credit
4. Add the Allow Accrual for Intangible field to the Product Group page Layout.
   1. Add field OIM_Allow_Accrual_For_Intangible_c

Fields

The following table summarizes the object fields that have new picklist values:

FC Step	Object	Field
1	GL Account	OIM Account
2	Inventory Transaction Financial Record	GL Account
3	Inventory Transaction Perpetual Record	Inventory Transactions

Once the feature console steps are activated you cannot revert them.

For more information about using the Feature Console, see Feature Console.