If you used AutoCreate to generate a sourcing negotiation, there are backing requisition(s) associated with items you finally awarding. When you create the resulting purchase order dealing with the awarded items, you can specify how the items on these backing requisitions are consumed by the awarded items. Any unconsumed requisition demand is returned to the requisition pool.
For example, assume you have two requisitions for PC keyboards for a total of 75 keyboards. You AutoCreate these into a buyer's auction.
| Requisition Number | Item Quantity |
| 12345 | 50 keyboards |
| 98762 | 25 keyboards |
You receive two bids as follows on the auction item:
| Supplier | Awarded Bid Quantity | Price |
| Office Supplies | 30 keyboards | $10 |
| Your PCs | 30 keyboards | $12 |
You have received bids for 60 of the requested 75 keyboards. You want to allocate the awarded items in such a way that one of the requisitions is fully consumed and the other is partially consumed (any remaining unconsumed demand is returned to the requisition pool available to AutoCreate.
The system generates a default allocation to consume requisitions as efficiently as possible. The bid with the earliest promise date will consume as many of the requisition quantity as possible. Once the awarded bid with the lowest price has finished consuming requisitions items, any other awarded bid quantities are allocated across the requisition quantities until all awarded bids have consumed as much of the requisition demand as possible.
Default Allocation
| Bidder | Awarded Bid Quantity | Consumed Quantity | On Requisition Number |
| Office Supplies | 30 | 30 | 12345 |
| Your PCs | 30 | 20 10 | 12345 98762 |
Notes: Bidder Office Supplies is awarded all 30 units and the award is applied against requisition 12345. The remaining bidder, Your PCs, is awarded 30 units as well: 20 units are applied against the remaining units for requisition 12345, and 10 units are applied against requisition 97862. Note that this leaves requisition 98762 with 15 units of unsatisfied demand. The 15 unconsumed units are returned to the requisition pool and are available for participation in any future AutoCreated negotiations.
To enter allocations
After you have made your award decisions and picked your winning bids, click Complete Award.
On the Complete Award page, click Continue to begin purchase order creation.
On the Review and Submit page, click Submit.
On the Complete Award Confirmation page, click "Continue Purchase Order creation process."
The Allocate page shows you the awarded items with backing requisitions that have been allocated.
For each awarded line item, you can select the item and enter allocation values by clicking Enter Allocations.
On the Enter Allocations page, you will see the system default allocations as described above.
Modify the allocation values as needed and click Submit. Note: You cannot allocate more units than you have awarded. You can allocate fewer units than you awarded a particular bidder, but you cannot allocate more units than you awarded that bidder. You cannot allocate more than the requisition quantity of each requisition.
Once you are returned to the Allocate page, continue allocating any remaining awarded items.
After you have allocated all the items you awarded, click "Create Purchase Order" and continue with the purchase creation order process.