Icons indicate whether an approver is pending, active, or optional, or whether the approver has approved or denied the request. Ariba Contract Compliance automatically assigns approvers for your request, based on your company’s approval rules.

Approvers can review requests across multiple partitions; an approver does not need to be logged into the partition in which a request was created in order to review and approve or deny it.

In the default configuration, if a contract was created from Ariba Contract Workbench, it will have no data in the Approval Flow tab because all approvals are handled in Ariba Contract Workbench instead.

1. Review the system-assigned approvers and see where the contract sourcing request (CSR) is in the approval process:
   • If you do not want to add or delete approvers, go to step 2.
   • If you want to add an approver, click Add Approver.
   • If you previously added an approver to the approval flow and want to delete that user, click Delete Approver. The Delete Approver button appears if you have permission to delete an existing approver.
2. Click Submit to submit the sourcing request for approval, or Exit to stop working with it. When you submit the request, it has a status of Submitted and is listed on the Submitted status screen. If you exit and choose to save the request, it has a status of Composing and is listed on the Composing status screen. You can edit the request at a later time and then submit it for approval.