Purchase request approval

The article below pertains to Procure to Pay (P2P) for the following applications and/or module(s):

Procurement

Approval of a purchase request can only be done by a person with the appropriate rights. Like invoices, these depend on a designated route. These can be based on an advanced route where the approver is determined by the coding. However, the route can also be determined by an easy route.

Requests that need to be approved by the logged in user are displayed in the block 'My activities' in  → . Via the block 'Open tasks' you can filter specifically on the requests that need to be approved. If more than 5 activities are available, they can be displayed via the button .  

To approve a purchase request, click on the request and use the claim button. .  

As an approver, the request can then be viewed in its entirety, advice requested and possibly rejected. The slider  shows the encoding of the request.  

A request is approved by selecting  and . Depending on the route, it then goes to the next approver or is converted to a purchase order.