Procurement - Purchase Requisitions

Introduction

Procurement - Purchase requisitions is the main dashboard where you can analyze your process for the purchase requisitions to get approval. See the illustration below.

The information displayed in the dashboard is based on the creation date of the purchase requisitions. The PR creation date filter in the Filters panel enables you to select a period to display the purchase requisitions that were created in the selected period.

Note: Since the process graph displays all purchase requisitions which are created within the selected time period, the graph can also contain changes to these purchase requisitions that might be outside of the selected period.

KPIs

Below is a description of the KPIs that are displayed at the top Procurement - Process requisitions dashboard.

If you click on a KPI, the corresponding metric is selected in the Purchase requisitions dashboard item.

KPI	Description
Avg. throughput time PR approval	The average throughput time from creating the purchase requisition to approval of the purchase requisition.
Total value (requested)	The total value of the purchase requisitions.
Purchase requisitions	The total number of unique purchase requisitions.

Purchase Requisitions

With the Purchase requisitions dashboard item you can analyze the purchase requisitions in more detail.

Metrics

You can create various different contexts by selecting different attributes from the drop-down list. The metric selector enables you to select different metrics. Below is a description of the metrics that can be used to analyze the purchase requisitions regarding the selected attribute.

Metric	Description
Number of requisitions	The number of unique purchase requisitions created within the selected period.
Percentage of requisitions	The percentage of unique purchase requisitions created within the selected period.
Avg. value (requested)	The average of the value of the purchase requisitions created within the selected period related to the selected attribute.
Total value (requested)	Sum of the value of the purchase requisitions created within the selected period related to the selected attribute.
Avg. number of approvals	The average number of approvals that were performed on purchase requisitions created within the selected period.
Avg. throughput time PR approval	Average throughput time of purchase requisitions from creating the purchase requisition to approval of the purchase requisition.

Distribution

The Distribution chart enables you to analyze the frequency of purchase requisitions based on the Value (requested), the **Number of purchase requisition approvals, or the **Throughput time (PR creation to PR approval). See the illustration below.

The Details button enables you to analyze purchase requisitions in more detail and opens the Details - Purchase requisitions dashboard.

Process graph

The process graph displays the purchase requisition process based on the number of cases. See the illustration below.

Note: You can use the Detail slider to change the number of activities and/or edges shown.

Viewing the process based on a different metric

Follow these steps to select a different metric for the process graph.

Step	Action
1	Click on the Displayed metrics icon in the process graph.
2	Select a different metric from the list of available metrics.

See the illustration below.

See also Working with Process Graphs.