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After you submit your Shopping Cart, the system evaluates it according to the business rules of your organization, such as:

• Does the Shopping Cart contain all the information necessary to process and create Orders?
  
  

• Does the Shopping Cart contain an incomplete item or a special request that needs further resolution?
  
  

• Does the Shopping Cart total exceed your spending limit?
  
  

• Does the Shopping Cart contain any item which arbitrarily requires approval regardless of cost or spending limit?

If all rules are satisfied, the system creates an Order for each supplier named in the Shopping Cart, dispatches them and reports Ordered Created on the Shopping Cart List page.

Approval Workflow

If any business rule requires it, the system forwards your Shopping Cart for approval, review or resolution according to the workflow rules:

• Who is your designated Approver (in your User Profile)?
  
  

• Has that Approver delegated responsibility to another user?
  
  

• Does the Shopping Cart total exceed your Approver's approval limit?
  
  (if so, after approval, it must go up to the next level of approval in the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition workflow).
  
  

• Have you nominated any additional approvers or reviewers who must see the Shopping Cart before, after or in parallel with (at the same time as) your default Approver?

An approver or a reviewer can click Approval and Review on the Home page Approve menu. This page is similar to the Shopping Cart List page, but it displays only those Shopping Carts which require approval, resolution, or review by you.