Exam Workday-Procure-to-Pay Topic 1 Question 18 Discussion

When a purchase item on a requisition line is already covered by an active, on-contract supplier agreement, Workday has sufficient information, including the supplier and negotiated pricing, to bypass the manual sourcing step that would otherwise be required for the buyer to assign a supplier. The Official Workday Pro Procure-to-Pay Guide explains that once the requisition business process completes approval for an on- contract item, the requisition line automatically becomes a purchase order line, since the contract has already established the supplier and pricing terms needed to generate the PO. Option A is incorrect because requisition lines are not sent to suppliers for review; supplier-facing communication occurs through purchase orders. Option B is incorrect because the defining characteristic of an on-contract item is that it does not require buyer sourcing, since the supplier is already determined by the contract. Option C is incorrect because the requisition line becomes a transactional purchase order line, not a catalog item, which is a setup record rather than an output of the requisition process.