Administration guidance

Simulate a procurement policy

Test proposed control behavior without writing live transaction states.

FOR
Organisation administrator, Procurement, Auditor
OUTCOME
Use RAQOZ to test proposed control behavior without writing live transaction states.

Before you begin

  • Organisation administrator access, or another role explicitly permitted for the setting.
  • The organisation has agreed the control or operating decision before configuration.

Guidance

  1. 1

    Select the draft policy and representative purchase scenarios.

  2. 2

    Run the no-write simulation and review which rules would pass, observe or block.

  3. 3

    Investigate unexpected results and adjust the draft, not historical transactions.

  4. 4

    Retain the simulation result as review evidence before activation.

Evidence RAQOZ retains

  • Draft policy reference
  • Simulation inputs and outputs
  • Reviewer decision before activation

Common issues

A configuration change behaves differently than expected.

Review scope, effective date, inheritance and status. Use a representative test or no-write simulation before activating a policy change.

A prior transaction appears to use an older rule.

That may be correct. Effective-dated versions preserve the policy context used at the time instead of rewriting history.

Related articles

Last reviewed 2 September 2026. Review against the current production release before relying on exact screen behavior.