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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Create Commodity Codes

Create Commodity Codes

Security: Set up the
Set Up: Commodity Codes
 domain in the Common Financial Management functional area.
Create commodity codes, which you can use to track spend in procurement. Workday determines the spend category at the commodity level. You can create UNSPSC codes with 8 digits without any hierarchy.
  1. Access the
    Create Commodity Code
     task.
  2. As you compete the task, consider:
    Option Description
    Short Description
    Workers can use the description you enter to search for commodity codes in
    Item
     prompts on procurement documents.
    Spend Category
    You can select spend categories that aren't already associated to a
    Commodity Detail
     on the
    Maintain Spend Categories
     task.
    Parent
    Workday automatically creates parent codes based on the commodity code type structure that you maintain.