Tip: Buyer derivation on Requisition Duplication

Summary

Is the buyer re-derived when we duplicate a requisition?

Content

Customers / Support

I thought this tip was useful to share given it has attracted a reasonable share of questions in the past.

Customer Issue:

I duplicate a requisition.The original requisition has buyer A assigned. I know that for the same set of attributes, the system should assign buyer B but the duplicated requisition still shows buyer A. What am I missing? Interestingly enough, when I create a new requisition, the buyer assigned to the requisition is B.

Designed behavior:

If the buyer on the original requisition is still a valid buyer at the time of submitting the duplicated one, the system will not attempt to re-derive the buyer. It will continue to use the buyer from the original requisition.