3.8 Delegating Approval

Approval Delegation allows the approver to delegate approval responsibility to a proxy approver for a temporary period of time. PECOS P2P will divert all documents from the inbox of the designated approver to the proxy for as long as the defined timeframe is valid.

Reasons why it might be necessary to select an alternate approver include:

• Holidays
• Leave of absence or secondment
• Meetings
• Illness
• Time constraint in times of heavy workload

Not all approvers will necessarily have the right to delegate their approval tasks. The approval delegation feature is controlled by the system administrator and permission to delegate is granted through a user role.

Approval can be delegated only to another PECOS P2P user but can be for any defined time period (see Approval Delegation).

System Administrators (within their designated authority) also have the ability to create and edit approval delegations.