Travel Management in ECC 5.0 - EP 7.0

Hi everybody,
We have to implement Travel Management in the Portal (7.0), and we have a ECC 5.0 as backend system.
When I look at the documentation, I find it strange that for example, you cannot create a travel request before ECC 6.0, but you can delete it as of ECC 5.0
?<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/f6/263359f8c14ef98384ae7a2becd156/frameset.htm">Source</a>
That's a little bit strange don't you think?
So I was wondering if maybe the documentation was wrong.
Can anybody provide me with a decent answer or helpfull link?
We need to setup "Create Travel Expense Report" and "Delete Travel Expense Report", which is only available from ECC 6.0
Maybe we need to use the IAC's instead?
Thanks in advance!

Hi Eduard,
We are just to begin realize Travel Management, do you have some document or manuals about it?
Thanks in advance
Regards
Dmitriy

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Greetings!
currently, we are in the process of implementing SAP Travel Management on our DEV System (Request and Expenses) and therefore of designing business processes. One major crucial point is the process of Approving the Travel Request.
We are on ECC 6.0 EHP 4 and therefore use the WD4A Travel Scenarios. We use a portal ess/mss with respective Stacks/SPs and BPs.
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nzworld, thanks for your idea. However this is not possible because the relation of user to cost centers to approvers can be
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http://help.sap.com/bp_hcmv1600/BBLibrary/Documentation/N06_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_US.do
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