Approvals Management Engine

Overview of Oracle Approvals ManagementOracle Approvals Management (AME) is a self-service Web application that enables you to define business rules governing the process for approving transactions in Oracle applications that have integrated AME.

Advantages of using Oracle Approvals Management•Oracle Approvals Management enables you as a business user to specify the approval rules for an application without having to write code or customize the application.

•Once you define the rules for an application, that application communicates directly with AME to manage the approvals for the application's transactions.

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AME builds approval lists.AME uses the logic you setup to control

the building of the approval list.AME does not send notifications or

handle any of the other required “glue” in an approval process.

Typically AME is just a processes/functions on an existing approval process defined in Workflow.

How does AME fit in?How does AME fit in?

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1. Define Attributes2. Define Conditions3. Define Action Types4. Define Approval Groups5. Define Rules

All of this takes place on the AME Business Analyst Dashboard

Definition of the AME ProcessDefinition of the AME Process

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Attributes are business variables with a single value for a particular transaction. Examples of attributes are: transaction's total amount percentage of discount an item's category a person's

AME AttributesAME Attributes

ConditionsConditions•A condition is a statement that is either true or false, for a given transaction. •For the rule to apply to a transaction, all of its conditions must be true for the transaction. •The following graphic illustrates the conditions in rules and indicates the types of conditions:

An action is an instruction to AME to modify a transaction's approval process in the manner you specify . Common Predefined Action Rule Types are:

◦ Chain of authority action types◦ List Modification action types◦ Post List Approval Group ◦ Pre List Approval Group

Action TypesAction Types

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The following graphic illustrates an action in the approval rule:

Approval GroupsAn approver group is a collection of approvers that you define

An approver group can either be an ordered set of one or more approvers (persons and/or user accounts) or it can be a list, which is dynamically generated at rule evaluation time

•Rule associate one or more conditions with an approval in an if-then statement. Before you can create rules, you must create conditions for the rules to use. •You may need to create some attributes and/or approvals.•You may also need to create some approver groups. •Thus, while creating rules is your ultimate goal, it is also the last thing you do when you set up AME.

RULES