My Oracle - salary changes
Salary changes should not be submitted in My Oracle until Friday 4 April. Any changes made before this time may be overridden due to updates to Essex Pay. Any issues with this can be raised on the Assyst portal.
Approving, rejecting and requesting further information about requisitions.
When a requisition is submitted for approval, My Oracle automatically sends it to an approver. Approvers are responsible for the review of transactions submitted to them and approving (or rejecting) them in a timely manner.
You cannot choose a specific approver. My Oracle will assign the approver based on the value and cost centre on the requisition. This is in line with the scheme of delegation.
The approver will receive an email and bell notification within My Oracle prompting them to review and action the requisition.
The approver has several options upon receiving a requisition, including:
Instructions on how to do this can be found in the approve a requisition guidance in the My Oracle Hub.
Approvers have a responsibility to check they understand and are happy with any spend they approve and that the council's procurement policy and procedures have been followed.
We recommend reviewing and agreeing your local team’s arrangements to make sure that there is sufficient approver cover to avoid delays in the requisition approval process.
On the Assyst portal you can make a request to:
If you are purchasing IT software, the requisition will be automatically sent to Technology Services (TS) for approval before a purchase order is created and sent to the supplier.
'Scheme of delegation' refers to who is allowed to make purchasing decisions.
My Oracle manages the scheme of delegation directly within the system, there is no separate database.
To look up approvers for your cost centre, please use the ‘Approvers by Cost Centre’ App on My Oracle under the ‘Procurement’ menu.
All council employees can search and view orders in My Oracle. This means you should:
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