Manage Approval Rules in Oracle Fusion Procurement

Today I will take you through 4 scenarios of how to setup Approval Rules for Purchase Orders in Oracle Fusion Procurement.

Let us start from the definition of Approval Rule.

What is an Approval Rule and why is it used for?

Approval rules are routing policies or rules that are evaluated to determine the approvers or FYI recipients for a business transaction.

There are three types of actions:

• Approval Required: The document or object will be routed for approvals.
• Automatic: The document or object can be approved or rejected automatically.
• Information Only: FYI tasks will be sent to notify the specified persons.

Today, we will go through 4 scenarios for business transactions that require Approval.

The figure below illustrates X company’s approval policy. As you can see there are several conditions, and approval rules need to be built based on the business approval policy below provided by business stakeholders.

Now let us go through each approval policy one by one to understand which setup needs to be done by Functional Anayst side in order to…