Blanket Order Release List

A Blanket Order is a contract with a supplier, allowing members of your Buying Organization to purchase specified release amounts from a list of items.

A Blanket Order may contain:

• One or a small number of items from a supplier's catalog, which you can select and add to a Shopping Cart (in a similar manner to your Favorite Items List, or
• A reduced version of a supplier's catalog, from which you can browse or search in the usual way.
• The ability to create Special Requests or make a RoundTrip to the supplier's web site.

Any member of the Buying Organization may view the list of items covered by Blanket Orders and add a permitted release amount (up to a maximum release amount specified in the Blanket Order contract) to their Shopping Cart.

After the Blanket Order Release has been selected, the Shopping Cart can be submitted for Check Out and approval as normal.

To view a list of the Blanket Orders available to you:

1. Select New Release from Blanket Order on the Procurement Home Page Shop menu.

The Procurement application displays the Blanket Orders page containing a list of all Blanket Orders for which your Buying Organization is authorized to create releases from.

2. If there are enough open Shopping Carts for the list to fill several pages, use the controls above the list to Filter the List.

For each Blanket Order, the list displays:

	Click this icon to expand the Blanket Order and view, for each item:
Item Description	This short description is a hyperlink. Click on it to view a longer Item Description, and other information such as pictures, technical drawings, animations, web page links, and so on.
Unit	The unit of measurement (UOM) for this item. For example, PK is package, CT is carton, EA is each. The Item Description includes an explanation of how many of each item is contained in the Unit of measurement.
Unit Price (Currency)	The unit price of the item expressed in the currency used by your Buying Organization. The actual price may vary from this if the supplier uses a different currency or if you are able to take advantage of tiered pricing.
Manufacturer	Manufacturer name
Supplier Part Number	Supplier Part Number
	Click to close up the Blanket Order again and hide the items.
Blanket Order Name	Blanket Order Name
Blanket Order Number	Blanket Order Number
Blanket Order Description	Blanket Order Description
Supplier	Supplier name
Contract Number	Contract Number
Action	Click an icon to perform various actions on the selected item. Note: If you mouse-over an icon, the browser displays a tool tip containing a few words explaining the action represented by the icon. If an Action is not available in any situation, its Action icon is not displayed. Actions include:
	to select a Blanket Order and display: its items in the Blanket Order Item List page, in order to make selections, add them to a Shopping Cart, and submit it for approval. The Search Catalog page, and browse and Search the Catalog in the usual manner but with a limited choice of items. Depending on how the New Blanket Order was created.