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Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition automatically checks a submitted Shopping Cart using the Buyer's User Profile and the Buying Organization's business rules. It then:

• Creates Orders for Shopping Carts that it finds are valid, and then dispatches them to the selected suppliers.

• Routes Shopping Carts that require attention to the Approve page for resolution by an approver.   

Shopping Cart Routing

The most common reasons that Shopping Carts are routed to an Approver for resolution are:

• A Non-sourced Special Request item for which no supplier (or a non-authorized supplier) is specified is included in the Shopping Cart
• The dollar total for the Shopping Cart exceeds the Spending Limit for the submitting user.
• An Approval-flagged Commodity is included which requires approval regardless of the buyer's Spending Limit.
• The submitting user is not authorized to create an Order (i.e. has a Spending Limit or zero.)

Starting Shopping Cart Approval & Review

If you are an Approver or Reviewer, you can see a list of Shopping Carts awaiting your approval or review:

1. Go to the Enterprise Buyer 2.0 Desktop Edition Home page.
   
   
2. Click Approval and Review on the Approve menu.
   
   The browser displays the Approve page with the Approval List tab to the front and a list of Shopping Carts to be approved.
   
   
3. Click the Reviewer List tab to display the Review page with  a list of Shopping Carts to be reviewed.

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