Murphy's Law

Ever sit down to present to a group of people and have your presentation material mysteriously disappear? A lot of people can relate to this stressful and embarrassing moment. Fifteen minutes prior to our recent webinar on iApprove™, our VP of Solutions Development contacted our CEO with news that the demo server was down! Panic! Besides one glitch, many of you would not have known the chaos behind the scenes. Ah, the excitement of live presentations.

iApprove™ is our most recent offering as an add on solution for QAD EA™. Although the software has been in use since 2004 as the heart of the ISS Group iPurchase™ and iQuote™ solutions, it is now available as a stand-alone product for exclusive and hybrid QAD EA™ environments.

We love the name, iApprove™. The name says it all, if you can think of something in your organization that needs documented approval, iApprove™ can do it for you. It is a rules based solution that is easily configured to dynamically route the request based on the data in the request. How do we define a rule? A rule can be as easy as; if a purchase order is over x amount, John needs to approve. Or if Sally wants to take off New Years Eve, her supervisor and HR needs to approve! Or a rule can be as complex as you need it to be, ie; a purchase requisition between x amount and y amount, which include the following departments (a,b,c,d) for the Ohio or Cleveland plant , being shipped by UPS or Fedex, OR the Project Code begins with an ‘M’, OR the Account Code is greater than or equal to 8000 and less than or equal to 8999, OR the Supplier is ISS Group, then Sam, Jane, John and someone from the Accounting Group needs to approve the requisition. That seems to be a mouthful, but easy to do with iApprove™. Try having employees remember and follow this rule as a standard operating procedure!

Thank you to the attendees of yesterday’s webinar. For more information regarding iApprove™ and/or all of the ISS Group solutions, please visit our website, www.issgroup.net. Please watch for our upcoming January webinar on iPurchase™.