Changes to Oracle requisition and purchase order numbering

November 25, 2021

You may have noticed already that the numbers given for purchase orders and requisitions have shrunk. The finance and procurement teams investigated improvements in invoice processing and the longer order number, which included a suffix of the financial year and a dash, were sometimes complicated for suppliers to record on invoices. This made the process of matching your orders and receipts against invoices harder than normal. Therefore, the new purchase order number will remove the financial year indicator and the dash, changing from:

SWBH-012345-21-22 to SWBH012345

Similarly, we have removed the financial year suffix on requisitions, as it was not deemed useful and created more characters for colleagues to type and search on when enquiring in the system, therefore these have now changed from:

REQ-012345-21-22 to REQ-012345