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Who approves my Shopping Carts? |
In most cases, the system compares the Shopping Cart total with the Spending Limit in your User Profile and automatically creates the necessary Orders.
In the following special circumstances, the system cannot approve your Shopping Cart and must forward it to the approver designated in your User Profile. This is another member of your Buying Organization who can approve Shopping Carts (up to their approval limit):
If you submit a Shopping Cart that exceeds your Spending Limit, the Approver can approve it up to their Approval Limit. If it is higher than this limit, the Shopping Cart is forwarded to a higher level approver.
Certain types of item require approval at a higher level regardless of the users spending limit. These items are always forwarded to the designated approver.
If you create a special request Shopping Cart for an item not normally available to your Buying Organization, it may be forwarded to a special request approver for resolution.
When an approver needs to be away from their desk, they can go to their own User Profile and delegate approval responsibilities to another user.
Normally, approval is a serial process: your Shopping Cart goes from you:
To your designated approver...
To the next higher level approver...
And so on...
To speed up approval, you can add the names of other, higher level approvers when submitting your Shopping Cart. If you specify parallel approval, your Shopping Cart goes from you to all designated and selected approvers at the same time.
In addition to approval, you can also designate a reviewer to whom your Shopping Cart is forwarded for their information. A reviewer does not have approval responsibility.