The first step in the inquiry cycle is to assign the name of the buyer responsible for the inquiry to the related requisition or group of requisitions. This step can only be done by users who have the ASSIGN BUYER privilege, who are usually procurement managers. The buyer who is assigned to requisition supplement 0 is automatically assigned to requisition supplements greater than 0 (zero). The procurement manager can change the buyer manually. Only those users with the BUYER privilege can be selected as the buyer.
In the Engineering Requisition field, select the requisition you want to create the inquiry from and scroll to the right to the Buyer field. Select the buyer from the LOV in this field and click OK.
The Proc Acknow field is filled with the current date, but you can change it, selecting another date from the LOV in this field. This date indicates when the requisition has been accepted by the procurement team.
When you save these changes, the Inquiry Cycle button is enabled.