An important part of any automated purchasing system is the approval cycle, and Buying Chain allows the server administrator to create routing rules and assign purchasing authority to employees. We found the purchasing approval options in Buying Chain flexible enough for most companies. For example, we could assign purchasing authority to an employee based on dollar amount, product type or custom request. We also created routing rules for purchase orders that exceeded an employee's buying authority. Using these routing rules, Buying Chain will send, via the SMTP server, a purchase order to a specified approver.
Users can also include justifications for purchases.
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