Purchase Orders > Requisition System > Setup > Group Approval Limits

Group Approval Limits

You use this program to maintain the approval limits for requisition user groups.

This enables you to define global approval limits for all requisition users attached to a group. In addition, you can indicate routing information as well as the requisition user to which approved requisitions/requisition lines originating from users in a group must be routed for purchase order creation.

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Field Description
New Select this to add a new approval limit for a requisition group or product class.
Delete Select this to delete the approval limit for the requisition group or product class currently displayed.
Save Select this to save the details entered or changed.
Requisition group Indicate the requisition group for which to maintain the approval limit information.
Product class Indicate the requisition group for which to maintain the approval limit information.

This field is only enabled if Approval level checking is set to Product class within group (Purchase Orders Setup).

You do not have to enter a product class, but if you leave this field blank, then the limits apply to all product classes in the requisition user group. This is equivalent to defining limits at Group level.

Requisition Group Limits Maintenance

Field Description
Requisition group This indicates the requisition group for which you are maintaining the approval limit information.
Product class This indicates the product class for which you are maintaining the approval limit information.

This only applies if Approval level checking is set to Product class within group (Purchase Orders Setup).

Next user for routing

Enter the code of the requisition user to whom requisitions are routed for users belonging to this group.

This user should therefore belong to a group that can approve an amount higher than this group.

If you leave this blank, then requisitions are routed to the user defined against the Requisition information > Route on to user field for each individual user in the group (Requisition Users).

[Note]

If you do not define the next user for routing here or against the individual users (Requisition Users) then no automatic requisition routing takes place.

The user code entered here is displayed as the default user code for the Route to option when creating a requisition using the Requisition Entry program.

Max approval value Indicate the maximum value that can be approved for all requisition users attached to this group.

Approval limits can also be defined against individual users in the group using the Requisition Users program.

The maximum approval value used is either the value defined at this field or at user level against the Requisition maximum values fields, depending on which one is higher.

[Note]

You can set this field to zero to indicate that no group approval limit is defined for the group.

In this case, the Requisition maximum values defined against the individual users of the group is used as the limit.

If you set Check maximum value at Line level (Purchase Orders Setup) then the value defined here represents the maximum requisition line value that the system will automatically approve.

If you set Check maximum value at Requisition level, then the value defined here represents the maximum total requisition value that the system will automatically approve.

If you are performing Approval level checking at Group level, then the maximum value is checked at line or requisition level, depending on your setup options (Purchase Orders Setup). If you are performing Approval level checking at Product class within group level, then the maximum value is checked at line level. In both cases the maximum value is checked at time of approval.

Purchase order user

Enter the requisition user to which approved requisitions/requisition lines originating from users in this group must be automatically routed for purchase order creation.

The requisition user you enter here should have the authority to create purchase orders.

If you leave this blank, then requisitions are routed to the user defined against the Route to user to create p/order field for each individual user in the group (Requisition Users).

[Note]

If you do not define the purchase order user here or against the individual users (Requisition Users) then no automatic routing for purchase order creation takes place.

Notes and warnings

Error messages

  • The product class entered is not on file or the branches have not been updated

    This is displayed when the Product class is not linked to an Accounts Receivable Branch. See Notes and warnings in Product Classes.

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