How You Approve Purchasing Documents

Document approval electronically routes the purchasing document to all identified approvers and records their approval actions.

Oracle Purchasing leverages the Oracle Approval Management Service for purchasing document approvals. Approval Management Service is a robust engine that enables administrators to organize and author approval routing rules based on numerous seeded document attributes such as ordered amount, price, category, and contract terms exist. Based on your unique business requirements, administrators can choose to send the approval request to approvers in parallel or in a sequence. Approvals can be sought using supervisory chain, position or job level hierarchy, or using a list of approvers.

This table lists several approval routing rules examples. For each example an approval rule condition and corresponding action are provided.

Condition	Action
Purchase order amount exceeds a certain threshold	Route to procurement agent's manager
Purchase order amount is greater than backing requisition amount	Route to requester's manager
Line price change percent on a blanket agreement exceeds the Price Update Tolerance Percent	Route for category manager approval
Non-standard contract terms	Route for legal approval
Line category name is "Travel"	Route for travel approval