Overview of COA in OpenText
Maintenance of Chart of Authority
In VIM we use COA for the level based approval. It is used in NON-PO based document type and for PO based invoices baseline implementation identifies the requester of the PO as the first and only approver.
Basically COA provides a single interface where the combination of approvers, approval limits and coder are maintained for the Invoice approval process.
Use TCODE-/OPT/AR_COA
We have 4 Tabs within COA.
- User details
- Approval Limits/Level
- COA Details
- Coder Settings
User Details
We use substitutes management utility for adding substitute to USER so that in absence of present user it can be approved by its substitute.
Approval Limits/Level
Parameters
1.Company code
2.Approval Level
3.Expense type of invoices
4.Description
5.Amount Limit
6.Approval Category
7.Additional Amount
COA Details: It Enables to assign cost center to the user.
Coder Settings :It helps to maintain the code for the subsequent AFS ID.
