Patent ID: 7454369

Claim:
A synchronous electronic requisition processing method, comprising the computer implemented steps of: a user preparing an electronic requisition form including a proposal for a requisition, said proposal requiring approval by each of a plurality of approvers, wherein the preparing step further includes the step of the user submitting the proposal, whereby, in response to the submission, the proposal is immediately available for approval; establishing an electronic list of the approvers for said proposal; an approver delegating approval authority to a delegate for a period of time and resuming approval authority a the end of the period of time; at least some of said approvers approving said proposal, and in response to at least some of said approvers approving the proposal, dynamically recalculating the list to take into account the current availability of the approvers further down on the list, wherein, the step of dynamically recalculating the list of approvers further includes the steps of: taking into account any delegates that are further down in the list from the current approver when the approver delegating approval authority has not resumed approval authority; and pulling the name of the approver delegating approval authority back onto the list when the approver delegating approval authority has resumed authority; the method further comprising steps of: providing each of the approvers with a view of the proposal; a first approver approving the proposal, and the act of the first approver approving the proposal sending an email to a second of the approvers; the user checking to see which approvers have approved the proposal; and the user canceling the proposal, said canceling sending an email to all of the approvers informing the approvers that the proposal has been canceled.