Bulk approvals.

Summary

The University makes payments to many Students and seeks a method to achieve this without having to individually approve for each student.

Content

Scenario - The University makes payments to hundreds of students, many times a year, for a number of reasons (grants, bursaries, awards etc).

Issue - We have just migrated to Oracle Fusion and the current solution works but is not efficient. Students are set up on Oracle as customers for AR purposes but for those student who will be in receipt of a payment we then repeat the process and set them up as suppliers. For each student to be paid we then generate an "invoice" on each student's account and make payments via the usual supplier payments process. Notionally, the award is approved at exec level in aggregate terms before being released to Finance to process. We were presented with a number of