The purpose of Oracle
Approvals Management (AME) is to define approval rules that determine the approval
processes for Oracle applications.
Approval Rules
An approval rule is a
business rule that helps determine a transaction's approval
process. Rules are
constructed from conditions and actions.
For example an approval
rule can be as follows:
If
the transaction's total cost is less than 1,000 INR, and the
transaction is for travel expenses,
then
get approvals from the immediate supervisor of the person
submitting the transaction.
Transaction Types
An application that
uses AME to govern its transactions' approval processes is termed
an integrating
application.
An integrating
application may divide its transactions into several categories where
each category requires a distinct set of approval rules
Each set of rules is
called a transaction type.
Different transaction
types can use the same attribute name to represent values that are
calculated in different ways or fetched from different places
This allows several
transaction types to share approval rules.