How to define an owner for an organization/department/cost center

Question

Hello Friends,
I have a requirement in which i need to route requisition approval to the cost center(fetched from the charge account) owner.
I am trying to find a standard way to achieve this. Is there any standard feature available to establish this relationship.
Any ideas?
Version : 11.5.10.2
Thanks for your help !
Regards,
Amit

Answer 1

Assuming that one person typically raises requisition for one cost center only, you can try the following approach.
You can define a position for each cost center manager.
Then you have do define one approval group for each cost center.
When defining the approval group, you have to use the a/c range such as
000-000-403-000-000 to zzz-zzz-403-zzz-zzz.
where 403 is the dept. number.
Then you have to assign the approval group to the right position.
Then you define your hierarchy (either purchasing or employee-supervisor) where each employee reports to his appropriate department manager.
This way, when an employee raises a requisition, it will go to his boss and his boss will have the authority to approve the requisition only if the requisition is for his department. If not, the requisition will go to boss's boss.
If your requirement is that one person may raise requisitions for different Dept. and they should get routed properly. I believe you will have to go for AME.
Hope this helps,
Sandeep Gandhi