Approval Chains

In Commerce One Procurement, you can require approval by certain people before a Shopping Cart becomes an order. The sequence of Approvers / groups that must provide approval is called an approval chain. The following describes where approval chains appear in the process, and how users can modify them:

• Commerce One Procurement builds the approval chain before a user submits their Shopping Cart, Blanket Order, or Blanket Order Release for approval. A user creates a Shopping Cart, Blanket Order, or Blanket Order Release and then clicks Approval Preview to see the sequence of users who need to approve it.
• At this time, the requester can add additional approvers / approval groups into the chain (also known as Ad-Hoc approval)