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Pre-Requisites
Quick view of outstanding purchase orders
There is a Task Management panel available on the Dashboard tab which gives you visibility of any purchase orders awaiting approval, either for you or by you:
If you haven’t already enabled this, do so as follows:
- Click the Maintenance tab
- Click the Personal Preferences link under the Personal Settings heading
- Select the Dashboard Settings heading
- Tick the Tasks Outstanding box
- Click the Save Changes button
Your PIN for approving purchase orders
If you’re also going to be responsible for approving purchase orders, you’ll need to set a PIN to carry out your approvals:
- Click the General heading on the same page
- Go to the PIN section near the foot of the page and enter a four-digit pin code that you’ll remember
- Click the Save Changes button
Approving a Purchase Order
If someone creates a purchase order and selects you as the approver, then you’ll receive an email and you’ll also see a link to the purchase order on the Tasks Outstanding widget on your Home tab.
- Click the Dashboard tab
- Any purchase orders awaiting your approval will be listed under the Purchase Orders widget
- Click the link to take you to the purchase order for approval
- Review the purchase order:
- If you’ve been selected as the Project Approver, you should review the contents of the purchase order to make sure that they are valid purchases
- If you’ve been selected as the Manager Approver, you should rely on the Project Approver to validate the purchase – your focus is on the expenditure of the Purchase Order
- If you’re happy to sign it off:
- Click Sign which will enable a pop up to enter your PIN where indicated and press Sign
- Click Sign which will enable a pop up to enter your PIN where indicated and press Sign
- If you’re not happy to sign it off:
- You can click Reject which will enable a pop up to enter your PIN where indicated and a text field to enter a reason for rejecting the PO, then click Reject
- If you would rather someone else to do this, click Sign and you will see the other users who have the ability to approve – click the Envelope icon beside a name to pass over the approval
- You can click Reject which will enable a pop up to enter your PIN where indicated and a text field to enter a reason for rejecting the PO, then click Reject