Within Ariba Procure-to-Pay only the Purchasing Manager group can manually close purchase orders. The Purchasing Manager group also comes with many other permissions which we don't want a typical end-user to have. The only action the end-user creating the order can do is close it for receiving, but not for invoicing. Since we have a large volume of orders it would be a full-time job for someone with the Purchasing Manager group to close POs on a daily basis. The inability for the end-user to close their own PO causes a massive increase in the number of rows within Ariba's accrual report (Received not Invoiced report). This also causes a significant amount of work for our finance and end-users as it requires them to manually strike out which purchase orders they should not accrue for line-by-line within the report on a monthly basis. Has anyone else run into this situation? Is there a workaround to managing the large volume of POs and the accrual process?
Ideally it would be beneficial if end-users were able to get a special permission or group to manually close their own orders since they would have the most knowledge of it. Another idea would be to have the system automatically close orders if for example the order has been fully received, fully invoiced, and fully reconciled. Any suggestions/recommendations are greatly appreciated.