About participant groups

Participant groups specify who can use the contract or vendor agreement created from an event. Setting up a participant group lets you add an event participant based on their assigned group (instead of individually). For events, participant groups are only used when awarding agreement-type event lines.

After you set up participant groups, you can also specify a company location or department to include in the participant group. If your company has accounting units in the General Ledger application, you can assign a company location (or requesting location) and the accounting unit to be included in the participant group. If your company has accounting units that are not in General Ledger, you assign a contract department to be included in the participant group.