Vendor Approval System

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Vendor Approval System

 

Using the Vendor Approval System

 

The Vendor Approval system is designed to allow those individuals with approval permission to take a look at the insurance data entered on the Vendor record level and approve the data before Greenlight CM™ starts the tracking and automated notification process.

 

Configuring the Vendor Approval System

 

The Approval feature allows administrators to review and approve insurance data entered by users before the system start the tracking and automated email notification process.

 

1.From the ribbon toolbar, click Greenlight.

2.Click Greenlight, Greenlighticon-mh.
 
The main screen displays with the Dashboard tab active:
 
Greenlightmainscreenblank-mh
 

3.Click the Configuration tab.
 
The following screen displays:
 
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Important: You can re-size your grid row height to display all the text in the row. Click in any row and use your mouse to drag the grid line up or down. This includes the header row.
 

4.Locate the Require Administration Approval for Compliance checkbox.
 
GreenlightmainscreenConfigurationtabOptionspane-mh
 

5.Click to select the option.

6.Click Save, GreenlightSavebutton-mh.

 

As part of the Vendor Approval System setup, be sure you have a job role with the assigned task to Approve Vendor Compliance. Permission to perform this task allows the user to approve vendor compliance on any vendor assigned to this job.
You will then need to ensure that user(s) are assigned to the job role with this task.
This way, when there is Management Approval required for a vendor, you have a user who can perform the approval

Read more about job roles and assigned tasks, click here.

 

 

Approving Vendors

 

Once a vendor is flagged for approval, and after reviewing the insurance data, an individual with approval permissions needs to access the Vendor record to approval the vendor.

 

1.From the ribbon toolbar, click Greenlight.

2.Click Greenlight, Greenlighticon-mh.
 
The main screen displays with the Dashboard tab active:
 
Greenlightmainscreenblank-mh
 

3.In the Dashboard field dropdown, select Awaiting Approval.
 
The following screen displays:
 
GreenlightmainscreenAwaitingApprovalDashboard-mh
 

4.Click the vendor hyperlink.

5.In the Management Approval pane, click the Approve button, GreenlightApprovewithcheckmarkbutton-mh.
 
The following warning prompt displays:
 
GreenlightVendorscreenApprovedManagementApprovalpane-mh
 

6.Click Yes.
 
The following Vendor Approval Notes text box displays where you can enter relevant information:
 
GreenlightVendorscreenApprovedManagementApprovalpanepostwarningApprovalNotesdialog-mh
 
Note: Entering information in this text box is not required.
 

7.Click the Approve button, GreenlightApprovewithcheckmarkbutton-mh.
 
The Activity Log is updated with a new entry similar to the following:
 
GreenlightmainscreenVendorhyperlinkclickedupdatedActivityLog-mh