Strategic Sourcing 8.8 awarding events to purchase orders, purchase orders remain in open status as

When awarding a Strategic Sourcing event to a purchase order, the purchase order is created in an "open" status. We do not give our users the ability to access the add/update purchase order screen to approve the purchase order. Is there a configuration item that will allow us to default purchase orders created by Strategic Sourcing events to an "approved" status? Since approvals take place at the requisition level, and at the event posting level, we do not require them at the purchase order level. We are on application version 8.8 and People Tools version 8.46.05.