CEO Reports to a Dummy?

January 24, 2006 on 5:45 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Feature of the Week | 5 Comments | Print Print | Email Email

Let me start the Feature of the Week column by describing a feature in Oracle Internet Expenses.

The Feature

Employee expense reports must be approved by their supervisors before they can be paid. And the way Oracle Internet Expenses approvals work is by using an employee-supervisor hierarchy. In other words, everyone must have a supervisor to be in a hierarchy, and be able to approve other people’s expense reports. Now, the CEO, or other employee at the top of the food chain, does not typically have a supervisor, right? Hence, any expense reports he tries to approve fail, because he is not in the supervisor hierarchy.

The Workaround

Oracle resources available on Metalink recommend setting up a dummy employee, which in fact we did. Let me tell you that it was a very embarrassing discussion with the client and their HR Management.

It is not a bug, and there is a workaround to make it work. But for the reasons above, CEO Approval of Expense Reports is my first (Fake) Feature of The Week.

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  1. What is the workaround for this because i am also stuck with iExpense going into Pending System Administrator Action Error because of the CEO issue.

    Comment by Frapacino — September 8, 2010 #

  2. CEO needs to have a supervisor…

    Comment by Marian — September 8, 2010 #

  3. I experienced this same issue and Oracle suggested the dummy employee. Like you, this made me very uncomfortable, so I implemented AME and was able to avoid bad data. You can create the rule so the CEO does not require an approver.

    Comment by Catherine — September 9, 2010 #

  4. Thanks Catherine,What steps must I follow to create the AME rule so that the CEO does not require an approver?I will appreciate your assistance.

    Comment by Frapacino — September 9, 2010 #

  5. Hi Marian I gave the CEO a supervisor but it is now asking for a supervisor for the supervisor I loaded for the CEO.What am i doing wrong?please help

    Comment by Frapacino — September 13, 2010 #

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