After getting excited about the prospect of being able to apply approval routing to purchase requests I have discovered that the entire function in NetSuite is massively flawed making the feature pretty much useless.

Here’s the deal...

In my organisation I have one user who is responsible for entering purchase orders into NetSuite.  She receives an internal purchase request (outside of NS) and raises the PO, entering the employee's name in the relevant field on the PO form.

At this stage the PO has not been sent to the vendor, its just sitting inside NetSuite with a "waiting supervisor approval