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What is the Buy2Pay approval process?

How orders are received, reviewed, and approved in B2P.

When you create a requisition, you are requesting to purchase goods or services on behalf of MIT. Therefore, each requisition must go through a review and approval process before being placed with the vendor.

 

Step 1: Creating the Requisition


The DMSE Finance Team may be the only approvers, or we may be one of a few approvers, depending on the material/services being purchased and the cost object(s) the purchase is being made on.

 
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The approval process is usually completed within 24 hours, but may take longer depending on the number of approvals and complexity of the requisition.
 

Step 2: Purchase Orders (PO’s)


When a requisition is fully approved, it will be assigned a Purchase Order (PO) number and will be sent to the vendor.

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If you realize that a requisition you created has a mistake, you can edit the requisition directly or leave a comment on it in the Comments section for an approver to edit.

 
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If the requisition has already been fully approved and has a PO number, only the original requester will be able to make changes to or cancel the PO.

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Please note that change requests will have to re-enter the approval process, so your changes to the PO will not be made until the change request is fully approved.
 

Step 3: Invoicing


When the goods or services have been received and are satisfactory, you can go into B2P to “Receive” the order.

 
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Failing to mark an order as Received when the order is fulfilled takes additional time and can result in a delayed payment to the vendor.
  • Receiving the order tells the Finance Approver that everything was received and satisfactory.
  • If you do not Receive the item before the invoice comes in, a Finance Approver will reach out to you through email to confirm the order.
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Refer to the Receiving an order in Buy2Pay page for full instructions on how to Receive items.
 
 
 
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