4.12.6.1 Approve Improvement Request

After the Improvement Request is created by an EPC user, users involved, including the accountable user, will receive a notification about the new IR. The Accountable user will have to approve or reject the Improvement Request.

If the Improvement Request is created on an object, the accountable user is called “Process Owner”

To Approve an Improvement Request, follow these steps

*Only users with the “Accountable” responsibility can approve Improvement Requests

1. Receive notification of new Improvement Request

2. Navigate to the object with the Improvement Request. In this example, a process

3. After reviewing comments made by users, as well as the votes on the topic, click on the box

4. A new window will be generated where you can approve or reject

5. Input a description

*You can also include files

6. To approve the IR click on the box, to reject the IR click on the , to discard the changes click on . In this example, approve the IR

7. You will receive a notification when you successfully approved or rejected the topic

8. The topic was moved to the “To Implement” section of the collaboration window