Use this activity when you want to manually select an authorization routing template and add it to a purchase order or to a purchase order change order. It's done by clicking Set Authorization followed by Select Authorization Routing Template.
This can be done before the purchase order authorization rules have been set up for a site. Once it has been setup you are able to select an authorization routing template to the purchase order or to the purchase order change order from the list of predefined authorization routing templates.
The settings on Company page, Supply Chain Information sub node, Procurement tab will decide if it is enforced to authorize all purchase orders in the company and if all authorization steps in a manually selected authorization routing template should be copied to the purchase order or not.
The system will validate whether the manually selected authorization routing template contains an authorization step with enough authorization limit to authorize the purchase order.