Entry and Approval
Use
The Entry and Approval application streamlines the process of populating measures, reduces the amount of time spent on measure collection, and alleviates costly errors through a system of workflow steps. It allows organizations to collect measures without needing to integrate transactional systems or establish a data warehouse for just one or two measures.
The Entry and Approval application allows you to collect, enter, approve, and publish measures. The application shows the progress to-date of all measure data collected for the selected model. You can see which step is active, who owns it, and where it is in the workflow process. The Entry and Approval application supports data entry for measures with up to 5 dimensions.
Entry and Approval administrators can also create and edit measures sets, release measure sets, update defaults for the model, and load the Application Server model.
Features
Depending on the settings defined by the Entry and Approval administrator and the workflow steps you are assigned to, you can do some or all of the following in the Entry and Approval application:
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Data Entry users and approvers can use the My Measure Sets table to enter actual and current-period target data, historical information, and future target data.
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All users can review the entire list of measure sets in the All Measure Sets table. This table shows every measure set created by the Entry and Approval administrator for the current period for all users.
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Approvers can review and approve or reject data by clicking the arrow on the active step and displaying the Approval screen.
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Any user can open an Approval Log, showing the full audit trail of the selected measure set, by clicking Approval Log. The log captures detailed user interactions, including time stamps for approval, rejection and uploading of measures.
The Details button on the Approval Log captures detailed user interactions, including time stamps for approval, rejection and uploading of measures. Users see records for every data value written from Entry and Approval Data Entry screen. If an entered value is changed (for example, when rejected by the approver) both the previous value and new value are captured. The Details button is available only if the system administrator has configured the EAValueAuditFlag Java System Property for the strategy management application in SAP NetWeaver.
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Entry and Approval administrators who are assigned to measure sets and workflow steps can also enter data, and approve or reject as dictated by the particular step.
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Entry and Approval administrators can create and maintain measure sets, release measure sets, set Entry and Approval defaults, load data into the Application Server model and monitor the overall data collection effort for the Application Server model for each period.
The administrator of the strategy management application can access Entry and Approval from the Administrator.