Best Practice to Control Purchase Order Price Without Using RFQ/BPA in Oracle Fusion Procurement

Summary:

Hi,

We currently don't use RFQ or Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) in our procurement process. All Purchase Orders are created directly from Purchase Requisitions, and prices are manually entered at both PR and PO level — both remain fully editable by the Buyer, with no validation against Item Master, item cost, or historical purchase price.

This creates a control gap: warehouse users enter arbitrary prices on the PR, Buyers can still change the price when creating the PO, and approvers only see the total PO amount without visibility into whether the price deviates from the base/negotiated price.

We'd like guidance on: