Approving Scenarios

All approvers must approve a scenario before it can be committed to the Integrated Operational Planning database. Approvers can review the analysis in Excel, add cell comments, and add scenario comments. Approvers cannot change any data values or recalculate measure values.

Before approving a scenario, you can review the scenario.

After a scenario is approved, the planning workbook for the scenario is unavailable for viewing in Microsoft Excel.

  To approve a scenario:

  1. Display the scenarios you are involved in as approver.

    • In the Scenarios section on the Home page, click Approver.

    • In the Analysis Workbench, select Approver in the View menu.

  2. Click a scenario name and review scenario information.

  3. In Approve this scenario?, Click Yes.

  4. In Approve Changes, enter any desired comments, and select whether to send an e-mail notification to the analysis owner, participants, or other approvers when you submit the approval or denial.

  5. Click Save to submit approval.

    When all required approvers have submitted their approval, the entire scenario moves to the Approved state. You cannot open a scenario in Excel when it is in the Approved state. When a scenario is approved, the scenario data changes are automatically committed to the base data in Integrated Operational Planning.