Part of the setup of Oracle Services Procurement is to associate a purchasing category set to an HR job. This is required for the entry of temp labor line types.

Prerequisites

• Install and enable Oracle Services Procurement. See: Procurement Services Setup Step by Step.

• Define jobs. See: Representing Jobs and Positions, in your Oracle HRMS documentation set.

• Define categories. See: Defining Categories.

   To define associations:

1. Navigate to the Job Category Association window from the menu.

2. Click Create to define a new association.

   You can search for existing associations by selecting Job, Category, or Business group. You then modify the association by clicking the Update icon. The Update Job and Category Association page has the same fields and behavior.

3. Enter or select the Job.

   You can only enter jobs belonging to your business group unless the profile HR: Cross Business Groups is set to Yes.

4. Enter or select the Category.

5. Enter or select a shopping category from the Shopping Category LOV. This LOV lists all the shopping categories defined for the Business Group. Though it is optional to specify a Shopping Category, if you select one, the system establishes an association between the Job - Purchasing Category - Shopping Category.

6. Enter a descriptive title in Job Description.

7. Enter a narrative regarding this job in Job Details.

8. Enter an Inactive Date.

9. The Manage Category Descriptors link is visible and active only if a shopping category is specified for the Job - Purchasing category combination. If you click this link without saving the Job - Purchasing Category - Shopping Category association, you will be prompted to save your work or not. If you opt to save your work, the association will be saved and the Oracle iProcurement page called Manage Category Descriptors opens for you to associate attributes to the shopping category. If you do not save your association, you stay on the same page (that is, Create Job and Category Association page).

10. The Manage Descriptors page enables you to define descriptors for the shopping category and these descriptors are displayed in the contractor request as well as in other related documents. When a Job is selected during contractor request creation then the descriptors associated to the shopping category will be displayed for the hiring manager to provide the required details.

    If there is a category key specified during shopping category definition then the same is shown in the Category Key field. The Shopping Category associated to the Job is displayed as the Category Name in the Manage Descriptors page. The description of the shopping category will be displayed in the Description field. Click Return to go back to the Job and Category Association page.

11. Save your work.

    In addition, the Update Job and Category Association page has new search criteria: Shopping Category. You can search for the Job based on the Shopping Category associated to the Job. You will see the Shopping Category associated to the Job as part of the search results.