JP2010079693A - Approval apparatus and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform approval processing. <P>SOLUTION: An approval apparatus 10 includes: a storage unit 14 for storing personnel information 41 and storing an approval rule to be a model for an approval path corresponding to the kind of approval; and a CPU 11 which determines the approval route on the basis of the personnel information 41 and the approval rule, and grants the right of skip for skipping the approval processing by an approver to a person who is a superior officer to the approver and is not present on the approval route on the basis of the personnel information 41 when the approver whose approval processing is not completed even after the lapse of an approval period is generated. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a decision making apparatus and a program.

  An approval system that distributes electronic document data indicating the application contents to the terminal of the authorizer (authorizer terminal) determined in advance for the application contents requiring approval, and performs an approval process by an input operation to the authorizer terminal It has been known. The approval system includes an applicant terminal that performs an application, an approver terminal, and an approval device that is connected to the applicant terminal and the approver terminal so as to be communicable and perform various processes related to the approval process.

The approval system generally performs the process of sequentially accepting the approval process of the approver based on the predetermined approval process order (the approval path) when performing the approval process with a plurality of the approver. If one authorizer stays in the approval process for reasons such as the absence, the subsequent approval process by the authorizer will be delayed. Therefore, an approval system in which the approval process by the approver holding the approval process can be skipped by the approver who intends to perform the approval process immediately thereafter (for example, Patent Document 1), There is an approval system in which an approver corresponding to a superior of an approver is searched from an approval path and set as a proxy approver (for example, Patent Document 2).
JP 2006-107082 A JP 2007-156678 A

However, in some cases, the settlement system according to Patent Documents 1 and 2 cannot prevent the settlement process from staying.
FIG. 20 shows an example of an approval path.
For example, as shown in FIG. 20, a plurality of authorizers W, X, and Y are set on an approval path of an application made by V, and an authorizer who is staying in an approval process has one Consider the case where you are the last authorizer (X) of your affiliation (Class A).

  In the approval system of Patent Document 1, the next approver of the approver holding the approval process, that is, the approver with a different affiliation (Y belonging to the second party) performs the skip process. However, although it is possible as a system that the authorizers with different affiliations can skip the approval process of the final authorizer of another affiliation, it may be difficult to actually proceed with the approval process.

  In the approval system of Patent Document 2, the authorizer corresponding to the superior of the authorizer who has retained the approval process is searched from the approval path. In the example shown in FIG. 20, the approval process in which the approval process is retained. Since the person is the last authorizer of one affiliation in the approval path, a proxy authorizer cannot be set.

  An object of the present invention is to enable the approval process to proceed more smoothly.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the invention according to claim 1 sequentially distributes information related to the approval to the approver terminal of the approver existing on the approval path in which the approval processing order is determined by a plurality of approvers, In an approval apparatus that performs an approval process based on an input from the authorizer terminal, personnel information storage means for storing personnel information of a plurality of persons including the authorizer, and an approval path template information storage for storing template information of an approval path Means, an approval route determination means for determining an approval route based on the personnel information and the template information of the approval route, and an approval person who does not complete the approval processing even after a predetermined period of time in the approval processing on the approval route. In such a case, a skip right that gives a skip authority to skip the approval process by the approver to a person who is superior to the approver and does not exist on the approval route based on the personnel information. And assigning means, characterized in that it comprises a.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the approval apparatus according to the first aspect, the skip authority assigning unit includes a plurality of authorizers on the approval route, and the approval process is retained on the approval route. If the next approver of the approver does not correspond to the superior of the approver who has settled the approval process in the personnel information, the skip authority is given, and there are a plurality of approvers on the approval route, and If the authorizer next to the authorizer who has stayed on the approval path is the superior of the authorizer who has settled the approval process in the personnel information, the approval process by the authorizer who has settled the approval process will be skipped. It is characterized by proceeding to the approval process by the next approver.

  Invention of Claim 3 is provided with the skip authority grant notification means which notifies that the skip authority was granted to the person who was given the skip authority in the approval apparatus according to claim 1 or 2. Features.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the decision making apparatus according to the third aspect, the skip authority grant notification means sends a message notifying that the skip authority has been granted to the authorizer terminal of the person who has been given the skip authority. It is characterized by being displayed on the screen.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the decision making apparatus according to the third or fourth aspect, the skip authority grant notification unit distributes a mail notifying that the skip authority has been granted.

  According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the decision making apparatus according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, the decision making process is skipped for the decision making person who has made the decision making decision skipped by the skip authority granting means. A skip processing notifying unit for notifying is provided.

  According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the decision making apparatus according to the sixth aspect, the skip processing notification means displays a message notifying that it has been skipped on the screen of the decision-maker terminal of the decision-maker who has been skipped. Features.

  The invention described in claim 8 is the approval apparatus according to any one of claims 6 and 7, wherein the skip processing notification means distributes a mail notifying that it has been skipped.

  According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the decision making apparatus according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, the apparatus further comprises setting means for setting the predetermined period.

  According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a program according to a tenth aspect of the present invention, comprising: a computer storing personnel information storage means for storing personnel information of a plurality of persons including an authorizer; decision making path template information storing means for storing decision route template information; An approval route determination means for determining an approval route based on the route template information, and in the case of an approval process on the approval route, if there is an authorizer who does not complete the approval processing even after a predetermined period of time, It is made to function as a skip authority granting means for granting a skip authority to skip the approval process by the approver to a person who is a superior of the approver and does not exist on the approval path.

  According to the present invention, the approval process can be more smoothly advanced.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments. The embodiment of the present invention shows the most preferable mode of the invention, and the application of the invention is not limited to this.

  FIG. 1 shows a main configuration of an approval system 1 including an approval apparatus 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The approval system 1 includes an applicant terminal 2, an authorizer terminal 3, an approval device 10, and a network 4 as a line connecting them.

The applicant terminal 2 and the approver terminal 3 have functions as a WEB client 6 and a mail client 7, a display device 8, and an input device 9. The screen display performed through the authorizer terminal 3 is performed by the display device 8, and the input operation performed through the authorizer terminal 3 is performed by the input device 9.
In FIG. 1, each of the applicant terminal 2 and the authorizer terminal 3 has one configuration, but a plurality of applicant terminals 2 and authorizer terminals 3 may be provided.

  The approval apparatus 10 has functions as a mail server 20, a WEB server 30, a DB server 40, and an approval deadline monitoring server 50.

  The mail server 20 distributes mail to the applicant terminal 2 or the approver terminal 3. The mail is displayed so as to be viewable by the mail client 7 of the terminal to which the mail is distributed.

  The WEB server 30 distributes WEB page data that can be browsed by the WEB client 6 of the applicant terminal 2 or the approver terminal 3, and performs processing according to the input content made via the WEB client 6.

  The DB server 40 stores at least personnel information 41, which is information on the personnel system, and approval rules 42 and approval information 43, which are information on the approval system, and manages the contents. The contents of the personnel information 41, the approval rule 42, and the approval information 43 will be described later.

  The approval deadline monitoring server 50 monitors residence of the approval process based on the number of approval expiration days. Details thereof will be described later.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of the approval apparatus 10.
The approval apparatus 10 includes a CPU 11 that performs various processes of the approval apparatus 10, a ROM 12 that stores various programs and data read and processed by the CPU 11, a RAM 13 that stores data generated in the processing of the CPU 11, and various programs and data. A storage device 14 that stores data in a rewritable manner, a communication device 15 that connects the network 4 and the approval device 10, an input device 16 that allows an operator to perform an input operation, and a display device 17 that displays the output of the approval measure 10. And a time measuring device 18 that functions as a calendar and a clock, and a bus 19 for connecting them.

  The CPU 11 reads out various programs and data from the ROM 12 and the storage device 14 and executes them to perform so-called software processing for realizing various operations performed by the decision making apparatus 10. Thereafter, processing performed by the CPU 11 is based on software processing. The functions of the mail server 20, the WEB server 30, the DB server 40, and the approval deadline monitoring server 50 shown in FIG.

  The ROM 12 stores at least an approval route determination program 12a, a skip processing program 12b, and an approval expiration date setting program 12c. The operation of the CPU 11 when these programs are read and executed will be described later.

The storage device 14 is a storage device using a hard disk, a flash memory, another rewritable storage device, or a combination thereof. The contents stored in the DB server 40 are stored in the storage device 14.
In FIG. 2, the storage device 14 is described as one configuration of the approval device, but may be a storage device connected to the outside, or a storage device or database that can be read via the network 4.

The communication device 15 is, for example, a NIC or the like, and functions as an interface for connecting the decision making device 10 to the network 4.
The input device 16 is, for example, a keyboard, a mouse, or the like, and can perform various inputs related to the processing contents performed by the CPU 11.
The display device 17 is, for example, a CRT, a liquid crystal display, or the like, and displays display output contents in processing performed by the CPU 11.

  The time measuring device 18 measures and manages the current date and time. Hereinafter, the date acquired from the time measuring device 18 is referred to as a system date, and the time acquired from the time measuring device 18 is referred to as a system time.

  Next, the personnel information 41 will be described. The personnel information 41 is data that is generated, updated, deleted or otherwise managed by a personnel system (not shown), and stores information indicating the interrelationship of personnel (for example, employees) constituting an organization such as a company.

FIG. 3 shows an organization chart used in the description of this embodiment.
The organization chart shown in FIG. 3 has a general affairs section in the general affairs department and a first development department as independent affiliations. The first development department has “11 development room” and “12 development room” as subordinate affiliations. “11 development room” has “11 development room first team” and “11 development room second team” as subordinate affiliations. “12 development room” has “12 development room first team” and “12 development room second team” as subordinate affiliations.

  As employees who belong to the general affairs section, there are D and section manager E who is the superior of D. General manager C exists as an employee belonging to the first development department. As an employee belonging to the “11 development room”, there is a room manager B. As employees belonging to “11 development room first team”, there are Z and A who is the leader of the team to which Z belongs.

Hereinafter, the personnel information 41 corresponding to the organization chart shown in FIG. 3 will be described.
The personnel information 41 has at least affiliation information and employee information. The affiliation information is mainly information including information regarding each affiliation, and the employee information is mainly information including information regarding each employee. In the following, description will be given in order.

FIG. 4 shows an example of affiliation information.
The affiliation information includes records of affiliation code, affiliation name, higher affiliation code, and affiliation head employee number. Each item of affiliation information shown in FIG. 4 is set as a record group indicating information related to one affiliation.

The affiliation name is a record corresponding to the name of each affiliation in the organization chart shown in FIG.
The affiliation code is a numerical record (for example, a 5-digit numerical value) having a predetermined number of digits assigned to each affiliation name, and a different affiliation code is assigned to each affiliation name.
The upper affiliation code is a record indicating the affiliation code of the affiliation corresponding to the upper affiliation. For example, since the higher rank affiliation of “11 development room first team” and “11 development room second team” is “11 development room”, “11 development room first team” and “11 development room second team” Is the affiliation code (10110) of “11 development room”. The same applies to the other upper affiliation codes.

  The affiliation head employee number is a record indicating the affiliation head of the affiliation, and the employee number of the employee who is the affiliation head is set. The employee number is defined by the employee information, and the affiliated employee number associates the employee number included in the employee information as the affiliated manager.

FIG. 5 shows an example of employee information.
The employee information includes records of employee number, employee name, affiliation code, job title code, and assigned business. Each item of the employee information shown in FIG. 5 is set as a record group indicating information on one employee.

The employee name is a record corresponding to the name of each employee shown in FIG.
The employee number is a record of a predetermined number of digits (for example, a 5-digit number) assigned to each employee, and a different employee number is assigned to each employee name. The employee number associated with the head employee number of the affiliation information is the record.
The affiliation code is a record indicating the affiliation of the employee, and an affiliation code assigned to the affiliation by the affiliation information is set.
The post code is a numeric value record (for example, a 3-digit numeric value) having a predetermined number of digits indicating the job title of the employee. For example, 101 indicates a leader, 102 indicates a room manager, 103 indicates a department manager, and 104 indicates a section manager.
The work in charge is a record indicating the work in charge of the selected employee, and is set as a numerical record having a predetermined number of digits (for example, a 4-digit numerical value). For example, a record of 1001 indicates that the person in charge of receiving an application based on the application form 1 is in charge. The record set for the assigned job and the job content are associated with each other by association information (not shown).

  Although not shown, the personnel information 41 also includes information for associating employee information with each employee's email address, and the CPU 11 refers to information that can identify the employee such as an employee number by the function of the mail server 20. Can be sent as a destination.

Next, the approval rule 42 will be described.
The approval rule 42 is information for associating an application in an application requiring approval with an approval route determination rule for the application, and functions as template information of an approval route.

  The approval rule 42 has at least application information, approval rule information, and approver selection rule information. The application form information is information that associates the application form for each application content with the approval rule information applied to the application content. The approval rule information is information including a rule for selecting an employee (authorizer) who is authorized to perform an approval and the number of days for the approval process given to each authorizer. The decision-maker selection rule information is information that associates the decision-maker selection rule with the personnel information 41. In the following, description will be given in order.

FIG. 6 shows an example of application form information.
The application form information has each record of application number, application name, and approval rule ID. Each item of the application form information shown in FIG. 6 is set as a record group indicating information related to one application form.

The application form name is a record indicating the name of the application form. Different application forms have different application forms.
The application form number is a numerical record (for example, a 5-digit numerical value) having a predetermined number of digits assigned to each application form name, and a different application form number is assigned to each application form name.
The approval rule ID is a record indicating the approval rule ID of the approval rule information applied to the application using the application form. The application form information and the approval rule information are associated with each other by the approval rule ID.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the decision rule information.
The approval rule information includes each record of an approval rule ID, the number of approval expiration days, and one or more approver selection rule IDs. Each item of the approval rule information shown in FIG. 7 is set as a record group indicating information related to one approval rule ID. In the example of FIG. 7, only a record corresponding to one approval rule ID “1001” is shown, but actually, a plurality of records respectively corresponding to a plurality of approval rule IDs are set as a record group of the approval rule information. ing.

  The approval rule ID is a numerical value record of a predetermined number of digits (for example, a 4-digit numerical value) assigned to a specific combination of the number of days for approval finalization and the ruler selection rule ID, and an approval rule ID that is different for each type of the combination. Is assigned.

  The approval deadline is a numerical value indicating the maximum number of days that can be processed by a single approver, and the unit is days. That is, if the approval process is not performed even after the number of days set as the approval deadline, the approval by the approver is regarded as staying.

  The approval deadline days can be arbitrarily set by the operator by the function of the approval deadline days setting program 12c. Specifically, the CPU 11 can set the due date limit of the approval process by each application by reading and executing the approval expiration date setting program. For example, the operator can set the due date for approval by an input operation using the input device 16. The set approval deadline is reflected in the approval deadline of the application information corresponding to the application.

  The authorizer selection rule ID is a record indicating the authorizer selection rule ID of the authorizer selection rule information. The number of finalizer selection rule IDs corresponds to the number of finalists determined by the finalization rule ID, and the first finalizer selection rule ID, the second finalizer selection rule ID, etc. It is provided in the form of That is, the number of authorizers is set as many as the number of authorizer selection rule IDs. The authorizer indicated by the authorizer selection rule ID is based on the authorizer selection rule information and the personnel information 41.

FIG. 8 shows an example of the authorizer selection rule information.
The approver selection rule information includes records of the approver selection rule ID, target affiliation, affiliation length classification, and assigned business. Each item of the authorizer selection rule information shown in FIG. 8 is set as a record group indicating information related to one authorizer selection rule ID.

  The decision-maker selection rule ID is a numerical record of a predetermined number of digits (for example, a four-digit numerical value) assigned to each combination of the target affiliation, affiliation length classification, and assigned business, and the approval is different for each type of the combination. A person selection ID is assigned. Based on the combination of each record of the target affiliation, affiliation head classification, and assigned business, an employee who matches the combination is selected from the personnel information 41 as an authorizer corresponding to the selection rule ID. That is, the decision rule information specifies the decision rule of the decision maker by the decision rule ID.

The target affiliation is a record indicating the affiliation code of the personnel information 41. The approver selected by the approver selection rule information is an employee whose affiliation code is set in the personnel information 41 corresponding to the record set in the target affiliation.
The affiliation length category is a record indicating whether or not the affiliation length of the affiliation code indicated by the target affiliation is required, and is set to either 1 or blank. In the case of 1, it is a requirement to be the head of the affiliation, and if it is blank, it is not a requirement. Whether or not he / she is an affiliation manager is determined based on, for example, whether or not a post code of employee information is set.
The work in charge is a record that specifies the work in charge of the selected employee, and the content corresponds to the record of the same name in the employee information.

  Next, the approval information 43 will be described. The approval information 43 is information generated by the CPU 11 on the basis of the content applied by the input from the applicant terminal 2, and the approval progress of the approval application form is managed by the approval information 43.

  As the approval information 43, approval application information and approver information are generated. Approval application information includes the application reference number, which is a unique number assigned to each application, the approval status of the application, the application used for the application, the employee who made the application, and the number of approval deadlines for the application Is information that associates. The authorizer information is information including an application reference number, information on the employee selected as the authorizer, and information on the approval status of each authorizer. In the following, description will be given in order.

FIG. 9 shows an example of approval application information.
The approval application information includes records of application reference number, approval status, application number, application name, applicant employee number, applicant employee name, and approval deadline. Each item of the approval application form information shown in FIG. 9 is set as a record group indicating information related to one approval application form.

  The application reference number is a numerical record of a predetermined number of digits (for example, a 5-digit numerical value) assigned for each application made by input to the applicant terminal 2, and a different record is assigned for each application.

  The approval status is a record indicating the progress status of the approval processing for the application, and any one of 01, 02, and 03 is set. 01 indicates unapplied, 02 indicates approval, and 03 indicates completion of approval. “Unapplied” is set for application contents that have started to be applied but have not yet advanced to the process of requesting approval.

  The application number and application name correspond to the record of the same name in the application information. That is, a record corresponding to the application form used in the application is set. At this time, the correspondence between the application number and the application name included in the approval application information coincides with the correspondence between the application number and the application name in the application information.

The applicant employee number is a record indicating the employee number of the employee who made the application, and one of the employee numbers in the employee information is set.
The employee name is a record indicating the employee name of the employee who made the application, and the employee name corresponding to the employee number set in the applicant employee number in the personnel information 41 is set.

  The settlement deadline is a record indicating the settlement deadline included in the settlement rule information associated with the settlement rule ID associated with the application number of the application used for the application. That is, the number of approval deadlines in the approval of the application is determined by the approval rule information corresponding to the type of application.

FIG. 10 shows an example of the authorizer information.
Approver information includes application number, approval step, approver employee number, approver employee name, affiliation code, approval status, approval request date, approval request time, approval expiration flag, skip authorized employee number, and skip reason. Have a record. Each item of the authorizer information shown in FIG. 10 is set as a record group indicating information related to one approval process content by one authorizer.

  The application reference number is a record indicating the application reference number of the approval application information. That is, the approval application information and the approver information are associated with each other by the application reference number. The authorizer information may include a plurality of records having the same application reference number. This is because there are a plurality of authorizers in the case of an application based on an application form associated with an approval rule ID in which a plurality of authorizer selection rule IDs are set in the approval rule information.

  The approval step is a record indicating the order of approval, and a net increase value with an initial value of 1 is set. In the approval process having the same application reference number, the approval process is performed in order from the approval process based on the authorizer information having a small numerical value set in the approval step. The approval step is set based on the order of the approver selection rule ID in the approval rule information, 1 for the approver based on the first approver selection rule ID, 2 for the approver based on the second approver selection rule ID,. It is set like this.

  The authorizer employee number is a record indicating the employee number in the employee information of the employee selected as the authorizer. The authorizer employee name is an employee name corresponding to the employee number set in the authorizer employee number. The affiliation code is an affiliation code corresponding to the employee number set in the approver employee number.

  The approval status is a record indicating the status of the approval process of the approver specified by the approver employee number of the approver information, and one of 01, 02, and 03 is set. 01 indicates unapproved, 02 indicates approval processing, 03 indicates approval processing, and 40 indicates skip processing. The undecided status indicated by 01 set in the approval status record of the approver information indicates that it has not progressed to the approval process stage of the approver by the approver information. The skip process will be described later.

The approval request date is a record indicating the start date of the approval process for the approver specified by the approver employee number of the approver information. That is, the approval request date indicates the date when the approval request is made to the approver. The approval request date is an 8-digit numeric record, and the year, month, and day are set in the so-called yyyymmdd format in which 4 digits are the year, 2 digits are the month, and 2 digits are the day. Is done. The approval request date is set based on the system date.
The approval request time is a record indicating the start time of the approval process for the approver specified by the approver employee number of the approver information. That is, the approval request time indicates the time when the approval request is made to the approver. The approval request time is a 6-digit numerical record, and the hour, minute and second are expressed in the so-called hhmmss format in which the second digit indicates the time in 24-hour notation, the second digit indicates the minute, and the second digit indicates the second. Is set. The approval request time is set based on the system time.

The approval expiry flag is a record indicating whether or not the approval processing is not performed even after the number of days set as the approval expiration date of the approval application information, that is, whether or not the approval processing is retained, and is 1 or null (null) Either one is set. 1 indicates that it has expired, and a blank indicates that it has not expired.
The skip authority grant employee number indicates an employee who is authorized to skip the approval process by the approver specified by the approver employee number of the approver information when the approval deadline flag of the approver information is 1. This is a record, and the employee number of employee information is set. That is, when the approval process stays, the employee having the employee number set in the skip authority grant employee number is given the authority to skip the staying approval process.
The reason for skipping is a numerical value record (for example, a numerical value of one digit) having a predetermined number of digits indicating the reason why the skip processing is performed. For example, if 1 is set for the reason for skipping, the reason for the skip processing indicates that “skip processing has been performed by an employee who has been given the authority to skip”, and if 2 is set for “next finalizer” Has been automatically skipped due to superiors ". The skip reason is set only when the skip process is performed, and is blank in other cases.

  Next, the approval route will be described. The approval path includes an employee who becomes an authorizer, the number of authorizers, and the order of approval by the authorizer. The approval path is determined by the approval rule 42. Specifically, when an application form used for an application is selected by input to the applicant terminal 2, the approval rule information adopted based on the approval rule ID associated with the application form by the application form information, The decision is made based on the decision-maker selection rule ID included in the decision rule information. The decision process for the decision rule is performed by a function provided by the decision route decision program 12a. That is, the CPU 11 reads and executes the approval route determination program 12a to determine the approval route based on the application contents via the applicant terminal 2 and the approval rule 42.

FIG. 11 shows an example of a decision route.
When Z makes an application using the application information application 1 shown in FIG. 6, a decision route is determined in which A is selected as the first decision maker, B is chosen as the second decision maker, and D is chosen as the third decision maker. To do. The following shows the mechanism for selecting the authorizer.

  Based on the application form information, the application form 1 is associated with an approval rule ID of “1001”. In the approval rule information of the approval rule ID “1001” shown in FIG. 9, “2001” is set as the first approver selection rule ID. In the decision-maker selection rule information with the decision-maker selection rule ID “2001”, “10111” is set as the target affiliation and “1” is set as the affiliation head classification, and the assigned work is blank. When this ruler selection rule information is compared with the employee information, the employee who has the department code corresponding to the target affiliation “10111” and has the post code indicating the affiliation head is A. A is selected as the authorizer. Other authorizers are selected in the same way.

  The approval path is reflected in the data as the information of the approver. For example, the application information for approval shown in FIG. 9 includes the application information for the application reference number “30002” as an application using the application 1, and the application reference number “30002” is included in the authorizer information shown in FIG. The authorizer information of the authorizer is “A”, “B”, and “D”. The approval step of the authorizer employee name “A” is “1”, the approval step of the authorizer employee name “B” is “2”, and the approval step of the authorizer employee name “D” is “3”. . That is, the approval step indicates the number of the approver who is the employee. In other words, the approval route is managed by the approver information.

  “Affiliation” shown on the right side of FIG. 11 is the affiliation of the authorizer. For example, the target affiliation “10111” is an affiliation code associated with “11 development room first team” of the affiliation information. The same applies to the other authorizers.

  At the same time as the approval path, the number of approval deadlines for the application is also determined. In the approval rule information of the approval rule ID “1001” associated with the application form 1, “2” is set as the time limit for approval, so the time limit for approval for each approver in the application is 2 days. . In the approval process, when the approval process by one authorizer is completed or skipped, the process proceeds to the approval process by the next authorizer. Specifically, after the completion of the approval process by the first approver or the skip process, the approval process by the second approver is performed, and the process continues to the third approver. The same applies to the case where the authorizer after the fourth authorizer is selected.

Next, the skip process will be described.
The skip process is a process of skipping the staying approval process when the approval process stays. When the skip process is performed, the process proceeds to an approval process by the next approver. When the skip process is performed on the final approval process by the final approver, the final approval process for the application is completed.

  In the skip process, the employee who is the superior of the settler (residence authorizer) of the retained settlement process is identified from the personnel information 41. If the next authorizer of the stay authorizer is the superior of the stay authorizer, skip processing (automatic skip processing) that automatically proceeds to the approval processing by the next authorizer is performed, and the approval processing proceeds. . On the other hand, if the next approver is not the superior of the stay authorizer, or if there is no next approver, skip processing is performed for the employee corresponding to the superior of the residence authorizer selected based on the personnel information 41 The authority (skip authority) is granted, and the approval process proceeds by performing a manual skip operation by the employee.

  The skip process is performed by a function provided by the skip process program 12b. That is, the CPU 11 performs skip processing by reading and executing the skip processing program 12b.

FIG. 12 shows a conceptual diagram of the skip process.
Similar to the approval route shown in FIG. 11, when an application is made using the application information application 1 shown in FIG. 6, A as the first approver, B as the second approver, and D as the third approver The selected settlement route is determined.

  Here, in the employee information having the employee number “10002” of A, the affiliation code is “10111”, and the higher affiliation code in the affiliation information having the affiliation code is “10110”. The affiliation manager “10110” has an employee number “10003”, that is, an employee number B. That is, B is the affiliation head of A's higher affiliation. Similarly, the affiliation head of B's higher affiliation is C. Further, based on the personnel information 41, E is the affiliation head of D's higher affiliation. Here, the affiliation head of a certain employee's superior affiliation corresponds to the superior of the employee.

  For example, when A makes the decision process stay, B, who is the next decision person of A, corresponds to the superior of A, so the CPU 11 automatically skips the decision process of A and shifts to the decision process by B. .

  On the other hand, when B makes the approval process stay, D, who is the next authorizer of B, is not the superior of B, so the CPU 11 selects C corresponding to the superior of B from the personnel information 41, Grant skip permission.

  When D makes the approval process stay, since there is no next authorizer of D, the CPU 11 selects E corresponding to the superior of D from the personnel information 41, and gives E the skip authority.

Hereinafter, the skip process will be described in order. First, a mechanism for detecting staying in the approval process will be described.
The CPU 11 functioning as the approval deadline monitoring server 50 determines an authorizer who does not complete the approval process even if the approval due date has passed, based on the records of the approval request date and the approval request time in the authorizer information.
Specifically, the CPU 11 determines that the approval deadline is “02”, that is, the approval deadline from the date and time set in the approval request date and the approval request time record in the approval requester information being approved. If the number of days corresponding to is passed, it will be regarded as a pending approval process. The CPU 11 sets “1” in the record of the approval expiry flag for the authorizer information (staying authorizer information) of the staying approval process.

  The passage of the number of days is obtained by the CPU 11 acquiring the system date and system time from the timing device 18 and comparing it with the approval request start time that can be derived from the records set in the approval request date and approval request time records of the approver information. Done.

Next, a mechanism for identifying the employee number of the employee corresponding to the superior of the residence authorizer from the personnel information 41 will be described.
The CPU 11 determines whether or not the stay authorizer is the affiliation head of the affiliation with respect to the approval process of the authorizer information in which “1” is set in the record of the residence authorizer information, that is, the approval expiry flag flag. Obtain the employee number of the employee who is the superior of the approver.

Specifically, the CPU 11 acquires the affiliation code of the stay authorizer information, and acquires the affiliation head employee number of the record group of the affiliation information to which the affiliation code is assigned. Then, the authorizer employee number of the residence authorizer information is acquired and compared with the affiliated employee number.
As a result, if the employee ID number of the affiliation manager and the approver employee number of the staying authorizer information match, the CPU 11 records the same as the upper affiliation code of the affiliation information record group to which the affiliation code of the staying authorizer information is assigned. Acquires the employee number of the employee belonging to the record group of the membership information assigned as the membership code. On the other hand, as a result of comparison, if the affiliation manager employee number does not match the deciding employee information number of the stay authorizer information, the CPU 11 assigns the affiliation manager record number of the affiliation information record group to which the affiliation code of the residence authorizer information is assigned. To get.

Next, a branch between automatic skip processing and grant of skip authority will be described. When the final authorizer of the residence authorizer is the superior of the residence authorizer, the CPU 11 performs an automatic skip process.
On the other hand, if the next authorizer is not the superior of the residence authorizer, the CPU 11 gives the skip authority to the employee corresponding to the superior of the residence authorizer.

Specifically, the CPU 11 has, as the next authorizer information, a record of an approval step that has the same application reference number as that of the stay authorizer information and one larger than the record of the approval step of the stay authorizer information. Searches the record group of the authorizer information and obtains it if it exists.
FIG. 13 shows an example of authorizer information that has been subjected to automatic skip processing.
Describes the case where A is the residence finalist. The approver employee number of the record group of the authorizer information having the same authorizer information and the application reference number of A and having a record of the approval step that is one larger than the record of the approval step of the staying authorizer information is “10003” Since the employee number of the employee corresponding to the superior of the stay settler acquired in the above process is “10003” as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, both numbers are the same. In this case, as shown in FIG. 13, the CPU 11 updates the decision state of the stay decision maker information to “40” and sets “2” as the reason for skipping. Further, the CPU 11 updates the approval state of the authorizer information having a record of the approval step that is one larger than the record of the approval step of the stay authorizer information to “02”. As a result, the approval process automatically shifts to the approval process by the employee corresponding to the superior of the next approver, that is, the staying approver.

  In the case of automatic skip processing, the approval request date and the approval request time are set simultaneously with updating the approval status of the authorizer information having a record of the approval step one larger than the record of the approval step of the staying authorizer information to “02”. Is performed based on the system date and system time.

  Along with the automatic skip process, the CPU 11 sends an approval request mail for notifying the employee of the approver employee number of the authorizer information having a record of the approval step that is one larger than the record of the approval step of the staying authorizer information to proceed with the approval process. Send. That is, an approval request mail is transmitted to the next approver. At the same time, the CPU 11 transmits an e-mail notifying that the decision making process has been skipped to the staying decision making person.

  On the other hand, when the employee number of the approver of the record group is not the same as the employee number of the employee corresponding to the superior of the residence approver acquired in the above process, or 1 from the record of the approval step of the residence approver information. When there is no authorizer information having a record of a large authorizing step, the CPU 11 sets the employee number of the employee corresponding to the superior of the residence authorizer in the skip authority granting employee number record of the residence authorizer information. As a result, the skip authority is given to the employee corresponding to the superior of the staying authorizer.

  FIG. 14 shows an example of the screen display content of the final decision maker terminal 3 of the employee who has been given the skip authority. FIG. 14A shows a screen showing an outline of one skip processing decision, FIG. 14B shows a screen showing details of one skip processing decision, and FIG. 14C shows skip processing. The screen after completion of is shown.

  Each of the screens shown in FIGS. 14A to 14C is an example of a display screen by the WEB client 6 of the authorizer terminal 3, and the manual skip process is performed via a WEB system provided by the approval apparatus 10. That is, the approval apparatus 10 transmits data for displaying the screens shown in FIGS. 14A to 14C to the employee approver terminal 3 of the employee who has been given skip authority by the function of the WEB server 30. .

  When the skip authority is given to the employee corresponding to the superior of the approver of the retained approval process, the retained approval process is shown in FIG. 14 (a) at the approver terminal 3 of the employee who has been given the skip authority. As described above, as a screen for notifying that the skip authority has been granted, a screen showing an outline of the skip process decision content (for example, a decision-to-authorize skip authorization grant application list screen) is displayed. For example, as shown in FIG. 14A, the display contents of the screen showing the outline of the skip process approval content are the number of approval processes given the skip authority, the outline of the approval process contents granted the skip authority, and the skip authority. And a detail button for displaying details of the contents of the final approval process. The outline of the contents of the approval process granted the skip authority is displayed, for example, the application reference number, application name, applicant name, the name of the approver of the remaining approval process, its affiliation and job title, the number of days remaining, etc. including. When an input operation is performed on the detail button, the details of the skip process decision content shown in FIG. 14B are displayed.

  The details of the skip process approval content shown in FIG. 14B are displayed below the outline of the skip process approval content described above. Examples of the content include, for example, the name, affiliation, It includes information indicating the content of the approval process for each approver, such as job title, approval status, and the number of days remaining. At this time, among the displayed approval process contents of each approver, the approval process contents of any of the approvers is an approval process in which skip authority is set for the employee who uses the approver terminal 3. In FIG. 14B, the skip authority is given to the contents of the approval process for the employee name B.

  A skip button for skipping the approval process is provided on the right side of the information indicating the details of the approval process of each approver. The skip button is provided on the right side of each authorizer's information, but is displayed in a state in which an input operation to the skip button is possible only for the authorizing process in which the employee who operates the authorizer terminal 3 is given skip authority, The other skip buttons are displayed in a state where input operation is not possible (for example, gray out).

  The skip operation by the employee who is given the skip authority is performed by an input operation to the skip button. When an input operation is performed on the skip button, for example, a screen after completion of the skip processing shown in FIG. 14C is displayed. At this time, the approval process given the skip authority that existed on the screen shown in FIG. 14A is 0 in FIG. 14C, indicating that one skip process has been completed. ing.

  At the same time when the skip button is entered, the record contents of the stay authorizer information given the skip authority and the authorizer information of the next authorizer of the stay authorizer are updated. The fact that it has progressed to the approval process by the approver is reflected.

  After the skip processing is performed, when the staying authorizer who has skipped the approval processing accesses the approver terminal, a screen for notifying that the approval processing has been skipped is displayed via the display device of the authorizer terminal. The display of the screen is performed via the WEB client 6, for example.

FIG. 15 shows an example of authorizer information after skip processing by an employee who has been given skip authority.
Describes the case where B is a residence finalist. When an input operation to the skip button is performed, as shown in FIG. 15, the CPU 11 updates the decision state of the stay authorizer information for which the skip processing has been performed to “40” and sets “1” as the reason for skipping. .
Further, the CPU 11 retrieves the authorizer information having the same approval step number as that of the residence authorizer information and having an approval step record larger than the approval step record of the residence authorizer information. The approval state of the approved authorizer information is updated to “02”, and the approval request date and approval request time are set based on the system date and system time.
If there is no authorizer information having the same approval step number as the residence authorizer information and the application step number of the residence authorizer information, the CPU 11 applies for residence authorizer information. The approval status of the approval application information that is the same as the reference number is updated to “03”.

  Further, when the skip button is input, there is authorizer information having the same approval step number as that of the stay authorizer information and having a record of an approval step that is one larger than the record of the approval step of the residence authorizer information. The CPU 11 distributes an approval request mail for notifying the employee of the approver employee number of the approver information to proceed with the approval process. That is, if there is a next authorizer, an approval request mail is transmitted to the next authorizer.

  Further, the CPU 11 delivers an email notifying that the approval process has been skipped to the staying approver who has skipped the approval process due to the input of the skip button.

  The association between the authorizer terminal 3 and the authorizer is performed by so-called login processing. That is, when using the authorizer terminal 3, a screen for logging in is displayed on the screen of the authorizer terminal, and each employee logs in with his / her ID and password so that the authorizer terminal becomes the employee. It becomes possible to operate as an authorizer terminal. The same applies to the applicant terminal 2.

Next, the operation of the approval apparatus 10 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.
FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing the overall progress of the approval process by the approval apparatus 10. FIG. 16A shows steps S1 to S10, and FIG. 16B shows steps S11 to S18.
First, the CPU 11 extracts a record group in which the approval state is “02” in the approval application information (step S1), and sets the first record group, that is, the first extracted record group as a processing target (step S2). . Next, the CPU 11 determines whether there is a record group to be processed (step S3). If there is a record group to be processed (step S3: YES), the CPU 11 is a record group of the authorizer information having the same application reference number as the application target number of the record group to be processed, that is, the approval application information. In addition, a record group of the authorizer information whose decision state is “02” is extracted (step S4).

  Next, the CPU 11 determines whether or not there is authorizer information based on the extraction result in step S4 (step S5). If it exists (step S5: YES), the approval request date and approval request time extracted in step S4 are compared with the system date and system time to calculate the number of days elapsed from the approval request date ( Step S6). Then, the CPU 11 acquires the approval deadline days of the record group of the approval application form information to be processed, and compares the approval deadline days with the elapsed days based on the calculation result of step S6 (step S7). When the elapsed days are equal to or more than the approval deadline days (step S8: YES), the CPU 11 updates the approval expiration flag of the authorizer information extracted in step S4 to “1” (step S9). The long employee number acquisition process (step S10) is performed.

FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the acquisition process of the employee number of the senior manager of the stay settler shown in step S10 of FIG.
In the process of acquiring the superior employee number of the staying authorizer, the CPU 11 extracts a record group of belonging information to which the same belonging code as the belonging code of the authorizer information extracted in step S4 in FIG. S21), the affiliated head employee number included in the record group of the affiliation information is acquired (step S22). Thereafter, the CPU 11 compares the affiliated employee number with the authorizer employee number of the authorizer information extracted in step S4 of FIG. 16 (step S23). When the comparison results match (step S24: YES), the CPU 11 extracts a group of affiliation information assigned with the same affiliation code as the higher affiliation code included in the group of affiliation information extracted in step S21 (step S21). S25), the assigned employee number of the record group extracted in step S25 is acquired (step S26). In step S24, if the comparison result does not match (step S24: NO), the affiliated employee number acquired in step S22 is acquired (step S27). In step S26 or step S27, the employee number of the employee corresponding to the superior of the stay authorizer is acquired. This completes the acquisition process of the employee number of the superior of the stayer.

  After completion of the acquisition process of the superior manager number of the staying authorizer, the process proceeds to step S11 in FIG. 16B, and the CPU 11 arranges the same application arrangement number as the application arrangement number of the record group of the authorizer information extracted in step S4. A record group of authorizer information having a number and having an approval step that is one greater than the approval step of the record group of the authorizer information extracted in step S4 (step S11), and a record group based on the extraction result of step S11 Is determined (step S12). If it exists (step S12: YES), the CPU 11 compares the employee number of the authorizer in the authorizer information based on the record group extracted in step S11 with the employee number acquired in step S10 (step S13). When the comparison result does not match (step S14: NO) or when the record group based on the extraction result of step S11 does not exist (step S12: NO), the CPU 11 determines the employee number acquired in step S10 in step S4. Information skip authority setting employee number is set (step S15), and a process of sending an approval expiration notification mail to the employee of the employee number acquired in step S10 is performed (step S16).

If the comparison results match in step S14 (step S14: YES), automatic skip processing is performed (step S17).
FIG. 18 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of the automatic skip processing shown in step 17 of FIG.
In the automatic skip processing, the CPU 11 updates the approval state of the authorizer information by the record group extracted in step S4 to “40” (step S31), and sets “2” as the reason for skipping the authorizer information. (Step S32). The CPU 11 updates the approval state of the authorizer information by the record group extracted in step S11 to “02”, and sets the approval request date and the approval request time based on the system date and system time (step S33). The CPU 11 performs a process of sending an approval expiration notification mail to the employee of the employee number acquired in step S10 (step S34), and also to the employee of the authorizer employee number of the authorizer information by the record group extracted in step S4. On the other hand, an e-mail notifying that the approval process has been skipped is transmitted (step S35). Thus, the automatic skip process ends.

After the processing in step S16 or step S17, the CPU 11 sets the next record as a processing target for the approval application information of the record group extracted in step S1 (step S18). The process of step S18 is also performed when there is no authorizer information based on the extraction result of step S3 in step S5 (step S5: NO) and when the number of elapsed days is less than the number of approval deadlines in step S8 (step S8: NO). I do. After the process of step S18, the CPU 11 returns to the process of step S3.
In step S3, when there is no record group to be processed (step S3: NO), the CPU 11 ends the process.

FIG. 19 is a flowchart showing the operation of the approval apparatus 10 when a skip process is performed by an employee who has been given skip authority.
When a skip button is input by an input to the authorizer terminal 3 and a manual skip process is performed, the CPU 11 extracts a record group of authorizer information corresponding to the content of the approval process for which the skip button input operation has been performed ( Step S41). The CPU 11 updates the approval state of the authorizer information extracted in step S41 to “40” (step S42), and sets “1” as the skip reason (step S43). The CPU 11 has the same application reference number as the application reference number of the record group of the authorizer information extracted in step S41, and has a decision step that is one greater than the approval step of the authorizer information. Is searched (step S44).

  As a result of the search, if a record group exists (step S45: YES), the CPU 11 updates the approval state of the record group of the authorizer information corresponding to the search result of step S44 to “02”, together with the approval request date. The approval request time is set based on the system date and system time (step S46). Then, the CPU 11 transmits an approval request mail to the employee of the approver employee number in the record group of the approver information corresponding to the search result of step S44 (step S47). In step S45, when there is no record group (step S45: NO), the CPU 11 selects a record group of approval application form information assigned the same application reference number as the application reference number of the authorizer information extracted in step S41. Extraction is performed (step S48), and the approval state of the approval application information is updated to “03” (step S49).

  After the process of step S47 or step S49, the CPU 11 transmits an email notifying that the approval process has been skipped to the employee of the approver employee number in the record group of the approver information extracted in step S41 (step S41). S50).

As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the approval process stays, the CPU 11 grants the skip authority to the employee corresponding to the superior of the stay authorizer based on the personnel information 41, so that the employee who is given the skip authority skips. The approval process can be advanced by performing the process. That is, even if the next authorizer of the residence authorizer belongs to a different affiliation from the residence authorizer, the employee who corresponds to the superior of the residence authorizer selected based on the personnel information 41 skips the residence authorizer. Therefore, the next authorizer is not troubled with the processing related to the residence authorizer with different affiliation. In addition, even if approval processing by the chief officer of the affiliation who is on the approval route stays, the employee who is the superior of the staying approval person is selected based on the personnel information 41. It is possible to skip the decision process of the staying author by skipping the process. As a result, the approval process can be performed more smoothly.
Furthermore, since each approver of the approval route and employees who are given skip authority are selected based on personnel information, the employee's response to the latest personnel information according to various changes such as addition, update, deletion of personnel information, etc. Selection is made automatically.

  Further, when the next authorizer of the staying authorizer on the judging route does not correspond to the superior of the residence authorizer, the CPU 11 assigns the skip authority based on the personnel information 41, and the next authorizer is the residence authorizer. In the case of being a senior manager, the decision process by the decision maker who has accumulated the decision process is skipped, and the process proceeds to the decision process by the next decision maker. In other words, the approval process by the staying approval person is always followed by the skip process or the approval process by the employee corresponding to the supervisor, so that the approval process can be performed more smoothly.

  Furthermore, since the CPU 11 notifies the employee who has been given the skip authority that the skip authority has been granted, the employee who has been given the skip authority can easily recognize that the skip authority has been granted, and the skip process is performed. Since it can proceed smoothly, the approval process can be proceeded more smoothly.

  Further, since the CPU 11 displays a message notifying that the skip authority has been granted on the screen of the employee's approver terminal 3 to which the skip authority has been granted, the employee who has been given the skip authority has been granted the skip authority. Therefore, the skip process can be proceeded smoothly, so that the final decision process can be proceeded more smoothly.

  Furthermore, since the CPU 11 delivers an email notifying that the skip authority has been granted to the employee who has been given the skip authority, the employee who has been given the skip authority can easily notice that the skip authority has been granted. Since the skip process can proceed smoothly, the approval process can be performed more smoothly.

  Furthermore, since the CPU 11 notifies the skipped residence settler that the settlement process has been skipped, the skipped residence settler can easily recognize that the settlement process has been skipped.

  Further, since the CPU 11 displays a message notifying that the approval process has been skipped on the screen of the approver terminal 3 of the skipped stay settler, it is easy for the skipped stay settler to skip the approval process. You can notice.

  Further, since the CPU 11 delivers an email notifying that the approval process has been skipped to the skipped stay settler, the skipped stay settler can easily recognize that the settlement process has been skipped. .

  Furthermore, since the approval deadline days can be set, whether or not the approval process remains can be determined based on an arbitrary number of days.

Note that the description in the present embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to this.
For example, the predetermined period for determining whether or not the approval process stays is not limited to the number of days for the approval period, and may be set to hours, minutes, seconds, and the like.

Each function by the software processing of the CPU 11 may be a dedicated device having each function.
The various information stored in the DB server 40 is merely an example, and the contents may be changed as appropriate according to the embodiment.

  The association between the applicant terminal 2 and the authorizer terminal 3 and each employee may be other than the login process. For example, information specific to each terminal (for example, the MAC address of the NIC) and an employee may be associated with each other, and each terminal may be associated with an employee, or other information that can be associated may be used.

It is a figure which shows the main structures of the approval system 1 containing the approval apparatus which is embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram of an approval apparatus. It is an organization chart used in description of this embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of affiliation information. It is a figure which shows an example of employee information. It is a figure which shows an example of application information. It is a figure which shows an example of approval rule information. It is a figure which shows an example of authorizer selection rule information. It is a figure which shows an example of approval application form information. It is a figure which shows an example of authorizer information. It is a figure which shows an example of a decision path | route. It is a figure which shows the conceptual diagram of a skip process. It is a figure which shows an example of the authorizer information in which the automatic skip process was performed. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen display content of the authorizer terminal of the employee who was given the skip authority. FIG. 14A is a screen showing an outline of one skip processing decision content, FIG. 14B is a screen showing details of one skip processing decision content, and FIG. 14C is a skip processing. The screen after completion of is shown. It is a figure which shows an example of the authorizer information after the skip process by the employee who was given the skip authority. Steps S <b> 1 to S <b> 10 are shown in the flowchart showing the overall progress of the approval process by the approval apparatus. Steps S11 to S18 are shown in the flowchart showing the overall progress of the approval process by the approval apparatus. It is a flowchart which shows the acquisition processing content of the superior employee number of the residence approval person shown to step S10 of Fig.16 (a). It is a flowchart which shows the processing content of the automatic skip process shown to step 17 of FIG.16 (b). It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the approval apparatus 10 when the skip process by the employee who was given the skip authority was performed. It is a figure which shows an example of a decision path | route.

Explanation of symbols

3 Approver terminal 10 Approval device 11 CPU
12 ROM
12a Approval route determination program 12b Skip processing program 12c Approval time limit setting program 14 Storage device 20 Mail server 30 WEB server 40 DB server 41 Personnel information 42 Approval rule 43 Approval information

Claims (10)

An approval device that sequentially distributes information related to approval to an approver terminal of an approver existing on an approval path in which an approval processing order is determined by a plurality of approvers, and performs an approval process based on an input from the approver terminal In
Personnel information storage means for storing personnel information of a plurality of persons including the authorizer;
Approval route template information storage means for storing approval route template information;
An approval route determination means for determining an approval route based on the personnel information and the template information of the approval route;
In the case of a decision making process on the decision making route, if there is a decision making person who does not complete the decision making process even after a predetermined period of time, based on the personnel information, the person who is the superior of the decision making person and does not exist on the decision making route A skip authority giving means for giving a skip authority to skip the approval process by the approver;
An approval apparatus comprising:   The skip authority granting unit includes a plurality of authorizers on the approval path, and an approval person who has settled the approval process on the approval path is determined by the approval process in the personnel information. If the person who does not correspond to the supervisor is granted the skip authority, there are a plurality of authorizers on the approval route, and the authorizer next to the authorizer who has settled on the approval route When the personnel information corresponds to the superior of the authorizer who has stayed in the approval process, the approval process by the authorizer who has stayed in the approval process is skipped and the process proceeds to the approval process by the next authorizer. The approval apparatus according to 1.   The approval apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a skip authority grant notifying unit that notifies the skip authority to the person who has been given the skip authority.   4. The approval apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the skip authority grant notification unit displays a message notifying that the skip authority has been granted on the screen of the authorizer terminal of the person to whom the skip authority has been granted. .   5. The approval apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the skip authority grant notification unit distributes an email notifying that the skip authority has been granted.   6. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a skip processing notifying unit that notifies the authorizer who has skipped the approval process by the skip authority granting unit that the approval process has been skipped. Approval device.   The approval apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the skip processing notification unit displays a message notifying that the skip processing has been skipped on a screen of a skipper's terminal.   8. The approval device according to claim 6, wherein the skip processing notification unit distributes a mail notifying that the skip processing has been skipped.   The approval apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 8, further comprising setting means for setting the predetermined period. Computer
Personnel information storage means for storing personnel information of a plurality of persons including an authorizer,
Decision route template information storage means for storing decision route template information;
An approval route determination means for determining an approval route based on personnel information and template information of an approval route;
In the case of a decision making process on the decision making route, if there is a decision making person who does not complete the decision making process even after a predetermined period of time, based on the personnel information, the person who is the superior of the decision making person and does not exist on the decision making route Skip authority granting means for granting skip authority to skip the approval process by the approver,
Program to function as.

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