I am particularly interested in the routing capabilities of SP.
Here at OU, historically speaking, other-than-proposal approvals have been handled ...ummmm..... let's go with "in a variety of ways." So, if you needed an advance account, or to waive F&A, or to incur pre-award spending, you talked to someone. Maybe someone in post-award - maybe the Vice President for Research when you ran into him at the grocery store. (true fact - that happened). Maybe the request was email. Maybe it was on the phone. No telling. Their approval, and the approvals of the affected departments, were recorded as "obtained" but no paper trail (electronic trail) was gathered.
I don't want to create routing just for the pure heck of it, but this hurts my head. Since I got here, we've "upgraded" the system using a homegrown, mid-19th century (I could swear) routing program that the University has. It's an improvement. But can we do better?
Is there a way to route for approvals for non-proposal things, using Cayuse SP? (We also have 424, Fund Manager, and the compliance modules, but I can't imagine they will be very useful in this quest.) Is this clear as mud?
Andrea
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Andrea Buford
Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
Oakland University
Rochester MI
(248) 370-3789
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