Oracle EBS AP Invoice Batch Approval

Hi All,
We have one requirement for EBS R12 as mentioned below.
1) We want to implement batch approval for AP invoices.
2) It should allow user to select or deselect invoices from a batch for approval or rejection.
3) Approved or Rejected invoices from the batch should be processed later on with the same process.
4) It should allow 3 level approval hierarchy ( accountant, manager & director )
5) It should allow vacation rule creation for standard processing.
Can anybody suggest how we can achieve this functionality???
Thanks in advance for your inputs.
sanjaypanchal

Hi Srinivas,
This sounds like it would be a customization:
1. Enable and require standard invoice level approval
2. Switch off notifications on standard invoice approval and implement "mock" approver to receive all notifications each invoice (as your batch approver would now be the approver at a batch level)
3. Write extension to allow user to submit invoice batch for approval (e.g. SPECIALX or MENUX forms personalization) with each invoice in the batch submitted for approval when batch is submitted
4. Write custom workflow to provide logic you require for batch
5. When batch is approved/rejected update status (via backend or by callback to standard invoice workflow) of each invoice in batch as approved/rejected.
6. Probably a couple of reports to support the above.
Regards
Gareth
http://garethroberts.blogspot.com

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REM * Copyright (c) 2000 Oracle Corporation Belmont, California, USA *
REM * All rights reserved. *
REM **************************************************************************
REM * *
REM * FILENAME *
REM * *
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