In this chapter, we discussed the various components that make up the workflow product in E-Business Suite. The product enables process tasks, approval mechanisms, and notifications in such a way that assists you in appropriately managing your transaction processes with relevant business rules and routings.

Workflow can also be a used instead of alerts, but it is not completely a replacement for the old Oracle Alerts product. This is one case where there may be a need to review and add a business event if needed.

In the next chapter, we will learn more about Approval Management Engine (AME), which is an improvement to creating approval hierarchies on the fly. This is slowly replacing the current approval hierarchy mechanism in Oracle Purchasing for requisitions.