In the Travel Manager the status of the travel request object shows you the current stage the travel request has reached in its processing cycle. You can assign the following statuses:

• Request entered
• Request approved

The travel request status (Travel Manager) determines whether different individual business procedures are permitted or not and is thus a part of the process control of Travel Management.

The status Request approved is, for example, prerequisite for the payment of requested advances via Financial Accounting (FI).

As soon as you create and save a travel request in the Travel Manager, the system automatically generates a corresponding travel expense report in the background. To retain clarity this travel expense report is not displayed in the overview list of the trips. It is, however, listed in the expert entry scenario Travel Expense Manager.

The statuses are then as follows:

If the travel request is approved, the status in Travel Expenses also changes.

If the approved travel request is changed once again, you have to differentiate between the following cases:

• A change has been made in the travel request that does not affect the settlement results (such as subsequently changing the requested hotel):