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Approval Groups are used to define a group of users who approve orders for a specific account. The approvers can be sequenced for hierarchical approvals, nominating who approves first and so on.
Approval Groups must be used in hierarchical approval modes (Hierarchical, Hierarchical Customer Budget, Hierarchical Approval Limits), as well as Multi Person Auto Selected modes.
Approval Groups are optional for other advanced order approval types.
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