Concept: Contingent Worker Purchase Orders

You can create purchase orders or change orders as part of the staffing events for contingent workers by adding steps to some of the business processes.

Contract Contingent Worker: Add the Create Purchase Order From Contract Contingent Worker
action after the completion step in the Contract Contingent Worker
business process. This configuration ensures that the hire is complete before creating a purchase order. The contract details in the purchase order come from the worker's position.

You can’t generate a change order by correcting the Contract Contingent Worker
event. However, if you configured the Contract Contingent Worker
business process to create purchase orders, you can create one during correction.
Edit Position: Add the Create Change Order From Contract Contingent Worker
action after the completion step in the Edit Position
business process. This configuration ensures that any changes to the position that affect the purchase order initiate a change order after the position edit is complete.
Change Job: Add the Create Change Order From Contract Contingent Worker
action after the completion step in the Change Job
business process.
End Contingent Worker Contract: Add the Create Change Order From Contract Contingent Worker
action after the completion step in the End Contingent Worker Contract
business process. The event effective date can't be earlier than any time logged against the purchase order.
Convert to Employee: You can’t add a change order step to the Convert to Employee
business process. However, if you have an existing purchase order and the contract end date changes during conversion, Workday reminds you to create a change order manually.

Some staffing events require a manual change order because the business process step doesn’t trigger automatically. You can use the

Purchase Orders out of sync with HCM

data source in a custom report to monitor your contingent worker purchase orders.