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Blanket Purchase Agreement - How to store GPO contract numbers in Purcahasing

edited Aug 4, 2021 10:49PM in Purchasing 4 comments

Summary

Requesting information on how to store store GPO contract numbers in Oracle and specifically if the BPA Supplier Agreement field should be used

Content

I am working with a Hospital that buys through a Group Purchasing Organization (GPO), which utilizes multi-tiered contracts to drive OEM and distributor pricing.  Within the Oracle Blanket Purchase Agreement, I am trying to understand if the GPO’s contract number should be stored on the Oracle BPA header field Supplier Agreement.  At the database level I believe the field is named "VENDOR_ORDER_NUM". I do not believe we need to communicate the GPO contract number on our outbound 850, however we want to use Oracle as it was intended and the client supply chain team needs to be able to run

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