Activating a Purchase Agreement

There are two ways you can activate a purchase agreement:

• You can manually activate a purchase agreement using the Activate Purchase Agreement button.
• You can let a purchase agreement activate automatically based on its start date.

You can only activate purchase agreements when they have a status of "Approved". When you activate a purchase agreement, its status and the status of its lines changes to "Active". Once a purchase agreement has a status of "Active", it cannot be deleted. You can only modify an active purchase agreement by creating a change request. For more information, see Creating a Change Request.

Activating a purchase agreement manually

To manually activate a purchase agreement:

1. Click the Purchase Agreements tab.
2. Select the purchase agreement that you want to activate.
3. Click Activate Purchase Agreement

Note: When you activate a purchase agreement, all its purchase agreement lines are also activated.

Activating a purchase agreement automatically on the purchase agreement start date

After a purchase agreement is approved, the purchase agreement and its associated purchase agreement lines are automatically activated on their start date. If a purchase agreement hasn't got a status of "Approved" by the start date, it is not picked up by the daily scheduled process for activation.

Note: The automatic activation of purchase agreements and purchase agreement lines is enabled through a Feature Console feature. Contact your administrator if you don't have this feature enabled.