We don't use Netsuite default Sales Order Approval, so in Accounting Preferences our default Sales Order status is Pending Fulfillment. Recently, I was asked about making a customization so that a select few customers sending sales orders via EDI, would have the order status of Pending Approval. Initially, we tried changing the default sales order status, but that created a log jam of all orders needing approval prior to creating waves/pick tickets so that the qtys would be comitted.

I tried creating a workflow to handle the EDI orders (based on the customer account). This event based workflow is using: On Create with the trigger After Record Submit.