Analysis owners and participants can submit scenarios for approval. Only scenarios that are In Progress state can be submitted. All approvers must approve a scenario before it can be committed to the Integrated Operational Planning database.
To submit a scenario for approval:
Click Actions and select Submit Scenario Name for Approval.
where Scenario Name is the name of the selected scenario.
For data collection scenarios, a message box informs you if tasks in the Scenario Data Collection panel are incomplete. Tasks are incomplete in these situations:
Data received from data providers has not been successfully loaded
For example, a task may be incomplete if the analysis owner or a participant entered data changes on behalf of a data provider.
Either click Cancel and complete the incomplete tasks, or click OK to submit the scenario for approval without completing all tasks. (You cannot complete tasks after the scenario is submitted.)
In Submit Scenario Name for Approval, do the following:
Enter any desired comments for the approver. The comments are saved with the scenario.
Select whether to send e-mail notifications to the analysis owner, participants, or approvers.
Send notification e-mail to is enabled only when the sender and at least one receiver has a valid e-mail address.
If scenario data is out-of-date relative to the base data in Integrated Operational Planning, you can refresh scenario data with the latest base data and then submit the scenario for approval, or you can refresh scenario data with the latest base data, but do not submit the scenario for approval. Continue the analysis using the updated data.
The entire scenario moves to the Submitted state, where it remains until all approvers approve it. If no approvers are selected for a scenario, it automatically moves to the Approved state.