Purchase Order > Approval hierarchy

Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by Sanjit Anand | Print This Post | Email This Post

The setting up of approval hierarchy for PO requires few mandatory setup , which start with employee /Buyer information.These are the following steps required.

• Define the employee and his/her superiors
• Define the positions for the employee and the superiors

N –> Setup –> Personnel –> Positions

• assign the employee and the superiors to a position

N –>Setup –> Personnel –> Jobs

• define an approval group which allows him/her to approve PO’s up to the approval limit. Same for the superiors.

N –> Setup –> Personnel –> Position Hierarchy

• Make sure the document type (e.g. PO) allows ‘Owner can Approve’ (checkbox)
• Assign the approval groups to the correct positions
• Create a position hierarchy for every org according to your wishes
• Assign the hierarchies to the document type
• Run the concurrent request ‘Fill Employee Hierarchy’

and , finally the above can be understood in the data diagram as below.