PO Approvals Causing Delays

From: Petersen, Mike
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2024 10:30 AM
To: McPherson Management ; All Staff - Ankeny
Cc: Barnett, John
Subject: PO Approvals
Importance: High

All,
PO routing delays are a pain-point for our business. I understand some new tools are in work however we can greatly improve this NOW by doing the following:

PO Authors,
If a PO is HOT, give a heads up to your approvers to be on the look out.
If something is URGENT URGENT or EMERGENCY, escalate via text to GM, COO, John Barnett to gain approval to do the emergency work around process (Credit Card and similar)

PO Approvers,
Please assure you are doing your part to approve quickly.

A) Please make a shortcut using the below link to your PO approval dashboard.
This dashboard is one level up from the links that your PO emails point to so you can check your queue at any time.

STEPS:
1. Click link http://mcpiqmsiis:8080/iqms/web_approvals.get_data
2. Drag triangle icon onto your favorites bar in Chrome. (see arrow) Rename it if you like
3. Click on Shortcut multiple times a day to assure you are caught up.

B) Another handy tip is to create an Outlook Rule to notify you of POs
STEPS:
1. R-Click on any message Click Rules
2. Click Create Rule
3. Click New Rule
4. Set up like or similar to settings shown
5. Click OK