All procurement transactions, requisitions, and purchase orders require a manual or systematic approval process. In many cases a purchase order does go through an approval process; however, it may not be as extensive as requisition. It could also follow a different hierarchy to support financial and budgeting approvals. Moreover, a purchase order has to be approved to manage receipt transactions.
Oracle E-Business Suite provides multiple methods to manage approvals that are simple hierarchical supervisory role based, or position hierarchy based. The new Approvals Management Engine (AME) allows users to use the engine to create hierarchies and branches based on the transaction criteria.
The AME approvals engine has the capability to use the position hierarchy or a supervisory role hierarchy, and extends it with branching logic based on business rules related to each transaction. This allows the flexibility to create complex approval rules to manage appropriate business transactions...