Using Blanket Purchase Agreements to source Requisitions containing Description-based Items

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How to use Blanket Purchase Agreements to source Requisitions containing Description-based Items

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This is probably a common question that may have arisen in many of your minds. We recently had a couple of customer issues that related directly to this. We are happy to get your feedback, any discussion points you wish to raise and your ratings on this article.

Problem Statement

We create Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs) for description-based items. However when we create a Smart Form or use the Enter Requisition Line flow to create requisitions, for description-based requests, only Contract Purchase Agreements (CPAs) seem to be available in the Agreements selector. We need a way to leverage the BPAs to meet our requirements here