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Microsoft Great Plains Business Portal is web application, utilizing .Nettechnologies. At the same time it had to work with so-called ERP back office, inthe case of Great Plains this is Microsoft Dynamics GP server with rich businesslogic. Having said these, we would recommend you to think about MS Great PlainsBusiness Portal as typical peripheral set of modules, however placed in the webpages and hosted in MS Sharepoint environment. This a bit complex mixture ofmentioned technologies makes business portal installation and setup complicated inturn, however if youÂ've done your homework, the deployment should be smooth enoughand you will see that BP does its job. In this small article we would like toreview some evident questions and answers in Microsoft Business Portal RequisitionManagement, which is replacement to former Microsoft Great Plains eRequisition (lastversion of eRequisition was 7.5, current version of GP is 9.0, we expect 10.0 bereleased pretty soon  Summer 2007) Approval Hierarchy. Unfortunately in User and Admin guides for RequisitionManagement module, approval hierarchy doesnÂ't mention and provide the screen shot,where you understand that requisition creators maybe placed on the same level underrequisition approver (meaning that approval hierarchy is not binary tree or binarylist). This is one of the most typical questions from IT people, who install MSDynamics GP Business Portal 3.0. Also, do not forget to select approval hierarchyin Requisition Management modules setup Required Fields: price, vendor, item id  these fields are mot required forrequisition creator, and this  powerful flexibility allows requisition initiator tocreate requisition with very generic description, imagine something like this:  Ineed really powerful new computer with large LCD monitor . Requisition creatorsubmits such a fancy purchase request and then professional requisition processingjob should be done by purchasing clerk: send requisition to multiple vendors to getquotations, then select a vendor (possibly by initial requisition line, allowingmultiple vendors deliver goods on one requisition). In other words, this means thatyou can select the vendor, item id, item price at the later time
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