Payables Invoice Approval AME Setups

We have a requirement where, If Invoice_amount >= 0, the approval should go to a person (employee) who approves all invoices except those that he creates. Only the invoices that he creates should go to his supervisor. And this person who approves all the invoices except his is not necessarily the supervisor of all people entering invoices, So using HR hierarchy might not be the solution here right? How can i implement such Rule using AME? I mean how do i get the approvers list here? I am pretty new to AME..Please suggest.
Thanks in Advance!
Munna

Hi Munna,
Create 2 Rules and 2 Approver groups and 1 Condition
Create a condition using "TRANSACTION_REQUESTOR_PERSON_ID" Attribute. While creating this condition, you can select the employee name (person who approves all invoices). Condition is TRANSACTION_REQUESTOR_PERSON_ID = <<<Employee name>>>
Creating 2 Approver Groups
1. Create an Approver Group and include only one person name in that. This person is the employee who will approve all the Invoice except the one created by him.
2. The second Approver Group should contain the Supervisor of the above mentioned employee.
Creating 2 Rule
1. Create the First rule will not contain any condition. Add the First Approver group in Action type Section in Rules window.
2. Create the Second rule with the condition which is created as mentioned above. Add the Second approver Group created in the Action Type section in Rules window.
I hope Invoice_amount >0 is not required because, the first rule will always apply to ALL the Invoices which does not satisfy the rule 2.
Regards,
guru

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