As a requisition reviewer or approver, you are informed by system-generated e-mail—assuming your company is using that feature—that a requisition is awaiting action. You use either Requisition Approval Maintenance (5.2.13) or the .NET UI-only Requisition Queue Browse (5.2.10) to review the requisition and then approve, deny, or reroute it. If you find incorrect or incomplete information, you can go from the approval screen directly into Requisition Maintenance (5.2.3) to make corrections and additions.

When you have completed your review, if you have a high enough approval level, you can approve the requisition for release and forward it to Purchasing. Or you can deny the requisition, reroute it to the originator for additional work, or reroute it to another approver.

This section describes the procedures used for approving and routing requisitions. Two alternative methods are covered in the following topics: