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Purchasing Categories

Find purchasing categories available in Oracle Procurement.

Looking for some quick guidance? Consider using one of our most common purchasing categories for your purchase:

  • Furniture over 5k (Inventorial)
  • Furniture under 5k
  • Lab Equipment over 5k (Inventorial)
  • Lab Equipment under 5k
  • Lab Equipment Maintenance/Repair Services
  • Lab Supplies
  • Lab Chemicals/Reagents
  • Office Supplies
  • Services - Advertising/Public Relations/Promotions
  • Software - SaaS/Cloud
  • Software - Download

If you are looking for a list of Expenditure Types instead, you may review the full list and our KBA on how to populate them.

  • Tax is driven off the Purchasing Category
    • Purchasing category is mapped for catalog and punchout items based on the UNSPSC provided by the supplier, and cannot be changed
    • The purchasing category is selected by the PO requisitioner on request forms
  • Qualified tax reductions and exemptions can be indicated through the checkboxes in the distribution section of the requisition/checkout page
  • If an item is taxable based on the purchasing category, but the supplier’s invoice does not charge sales tax, then use tax will be applied.

Review the table below for a list of available purchasing categories including chart string account values associated with them, their taxability, and examples of when you might use each one.