2948799 - System Does not Determine Higher Level Cost Center Managers During Purchase Order Approval Process

You have defined the approval process for purchase order with rule Approval by all cost center managers by value limit of a project task, however system does not determine higher level cost center managers from the org structure hierarchy.

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1. Go to Purchase Requests and Orders work center.
2. Go to Purchase Orders view.
3. Select the relevant Purchase Order.
4. Go to the Approvals tab.
5. You can see that, approver determination is incomplete or incorrect.

Where you have defined the approval process for Purchase Order as Approval by all cost center managers by value limit of a project task and the corresponding Purchase Order is assigned to project task. If you open the project task, and navigate to Accounting you can see the responsible unit defined for the project task. Here system determined the cost center manager of the responsible unit assigned in the project task.

You expect system to find higher level managers from the Purchasing Approval Value Limit under Employee Work Distribution rule.

The cost center manager does not have any value limit maintained in the Purchasing Approval Value Limit section. In this case, system will give infinite approval limit to the user and assign the task to him.

Which means, system will not find any other higher level managers.

You need to define the value limit for project cost center manager in the Purchasing Approval Value Limit from the below steps:

1. Go to the Application and User Management work center.
2. Go to Task Distribution view.
3. Select Employee Work Distribution.
4. Select Purchasing Approval Value Limit under the business area Purchasing.
5. Add Row and Maintained the Employee Responsible and define the Value Limit.
6. Select Save and Close.

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