Depending on the areas of responsibility within a company, you might want to make operational procurement possible only after checks have been made on the created purchasing documents by a superior authority. In the SAP procurement process, a control mechanism of this kind can be implemented for each individual customer on the basis of a release procedure. This release procedure uses classification, and can be applied to all purchasing documents where it is possible to build up a differentiated and multi-level control system. Requests for quotation, outline agreements, scheduling agreements, and purchase orders can all be brought into this process using the purchase requisition.

You can use workflow to speed up this process.

In the following process, the necessary classification and Customizing settings for a release procedure in the purchase requisition are shown using links to the workflow.

At the end of the process, the functionality in the application area is explained using an example.