You can use this business process to create a shopping cart and add items to it. For recurring orders, you can also use previous shopping carts and templates provided by the purchasing department. Account assignment is then checked in the back-end system. You can order the shopping cart now or later, and check the status of the shopping cart at any time. If the shopping cart contains incomplete data, you can run a completion workflow to check and complete the necessary delivery data. Once the delivery data is complete, the approval workflow starts.

You can also assign responsibility for requirements from a shopping cart to a different purchasing group. You can do this manually or automatically. You might want to do this, for example, if the person who was originally responsible is absent, or if changes have been made to the purchasing group structure.