How You Set Up Approval Rules for Purchasing Documents with Outside Processing Items

You can set up approval rules for purchase orders and blanket purchase agreements that have at least one outside processing item.

To do this, use the Manage Purchasing Document Approvals task. You can find it in the Setup and Maintenance work area, Approval Management functional area. When editing a rule on the Edit Approval Rules page, use the Includes Outside Processing Items attribute to define a condition for purchasing documents having outside processing items. The attribute is available to use in a condition at the document line or header level.