Patent ID: 7840445

Claim:
An electronic requisition processing method, comprising the steps: preparing an electronic requisition form including a proposal for a requisition; establishing an electronic list of approvers for the requisition; at least one of the approvers delegating approval authority; in response to each approver approving the requisition, electronically recalculating, by an application server, the list of approvers, including: taking into account any delegates or new approver names that are further down in the list from the current approver, and accounting for all of the at least one of the approvers who delegated approval authority for a period of time and who resumed said approval authority at the end of said period of time by pulling said all of the at least one of the approvers who delegated approval authority back onto the list of approvers; and a first of the approvers approving the proposal, and the act of the first approver approving the proposal sending an email to a second of the approvers.