Cross BG - AP Invoice Approval

We were exploring the option of using AME to implement an invoice approval process. However, the way OF has been implemented in the organization, each country's users are in different Business Groups.
However, the invoice approval would require different BG users to approve.
Can somebody please let us know firstly whether this is possible as standard functionality? If not, then how big a customization are we looking at. Is there a workaround that could be used while trying to keep customization as minimal as possible?
HR has been implemented as well in the Organization however cross-BG employer-supervisor relationship applicability check has not been enabled. Does this have any impact or benefit/use on the AP Invoice Approval process?
The version is eBS 11.5.10.
Any sort of input will be valuable. Thanks.
Edited by: UTP on Oct 27, 2009 3:20 PM

Just wondering to ask why you are having multiple BG defined,
Was that part of business requirement?
However i did consult one of my friend and he mentioned me the below mentioned thing:
User 1 is in India BG and User 2 is in UK BG
User 2 is created as an dummy emp in India BG and also as the supervisor for the User 1 in the person create and maintain record
Now in the workflow you can create a rule to send an email to User 2 whenever invoice approval is initiated based on the email.
This should send him an email and he would either accept/reject the same.
You might need to test this as we are just guestimating . so have a good time.
Thanks
Manish Jain.

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