DUAL LEVEL APPROVAL

Hi
I have a ess landscape wherein,the employee reports to manager and both are in one organizational unit.The manager reports to his superior who is in a different organnizational unit.In the present scenario,the manager only handles the requests from the employee.
The workflow used is:WS12300111.
So the requirement is after the manager takes a decision on the employee leave request,the next agent who should handle the request is the superior of the manager.
So how should the workflow template be modified to incorporate this extra step?
Regards
Deb

Hi Andy,
Thanks for the information.
I have a couple of queries on that.
1).I have tried to add the extra approval step in the initial workflow.But upon raising the leave request by the employee and after approval by the first level manager,it is not proceeding to the next level approval or to the next level manager.
In the second level approval, the workflow is taking the first level manager as the agent.So how do I set the agent for this extra step?In the first level approval,the agent is agent+0001.agents .
Apart from this in transaction pp01,the employee reports to first level manager in A003 and first level manager reports to second level manager in A003.
2).How do I make a copy of this workflow?
Regards
Deb

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>
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sapna madhuri

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First question: is approval of level 1 and 2 approvers performed independently for each item or depending on the previous level being completed (i.e. must all level 1 approvers approve before relevant items are sent to level 2 approvers)?
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