Approvals for Business Transactions

You can use approval procedures to control the approval process for business transactions. In an organization, certain transactions require approval from various people before they can be fully processed. For example, a request for change (RfC) transaction requires approval before new items can be implemented in the IT infrastructure.

Approval procedures can be manually processed or integrated with workflow. All information relevant to the approval of a transaction is available in the Approvals assignment block in the business transaction.

Prerequisites

You have made the following settings in Customizing for Customer Relationship Management by choosing Start of the navigation path Transactions Next navigation step Basic Settings Approval Settings. End of the navigation path

Defined approval procedures and identified the approval steps and in what order they are processed
Assigned approval determination procedures to transactions
Optionally made settings to use SAP Workflow in your approval process

You have configured rule policies for approval. For more information, see SAP Solution Manager.

Features

You can use the Approvals assignment block in the business transaction to monitor the approval steps and related information. For example, you can view which business partner approved each step and when the approval was performed.
You can use workflow to notify the appropriate person that they have an approval step to approve.
You can define the steps that need to come before and after each approval step.