Currently within the purchasing module, there does not seem to be a way you can automatically make the owner of a cost centre the defaut approver of the purchase being made.

 

Due to human error it is possible for a person to enter the wrong cost centre from the drop down list, but then select the correct approver...  It sometimes then occurs that as the manager/approver sees the request, they dont check the cost centre loaded against this and still approve the PO. This then affects what cost centre the invoice is charged against and upsets department budgets.

 

If a person is the cost centre owner they should then be the default PO Approver.

 

Having the ability to then manually enter in another manager if it was required could then be an option.

 

If this was bought into place, setting up a way to transfer approval to another person when you are on holiday would also be incredibly useful. Similar to how Request currently work.