# Configure approval workflows

Add spending governance to the B2B purchasing flow: Approval Rules and their predicates, approver hierarchies and tiers, how Approval Flows progress and handle rejection, and how rules inherit down the Business Unit hierarchy.

**Learning objectives**

After completing this module, you should be able to:

- Design Approval Rules with precise, currency-aware predicates and the correct requester roles.
- Construct approver hierarchies using AND/OR logic across multiple tiers.
- Trace how an Approval Flow progresses through tiers and explain how it handles rejection.
- Configure Approval Rule inheritance to match an organization's governance.

**Agenda**

1. [Why procurement governance matters](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/why-procurement-governance-matters.md)
2. [Approval Rules: predicates and requesters](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/approval-rules-predicates-and-requesters.md)
3. [Approver hierarchies and tiers](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/approver-hierarchies-and-tiers.md)
4. [Approval Flows in action](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/approval-flows-in-action.md)
5. [Approval Rule inheritance](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/approval-rule-inheritance.md)
6. [Learning check](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/learning-check.md)

**Prerequisites**

- [Implement B2B purchase flows](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/implement-b2b-purchase-flows/overview.md) module from this learning path, which covers the B2B Cart and the Order creation that approval governance acts on.
- [Configure associate access](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-associate-access/overview.md) module from this learning path, which covers the Associate Roles that requesters and approvers are built from.
- [Model buyer organizations](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/model-buyer-organizations/overview.md) module from this learning path, which covers the Business Unit hierarchy that Approval Rules inherit down.

**Audience**

- Functional Architects and Solution Designers responsible for evaluating platform capabilities and recommending B2B modeling strategies.

## Related pages

- [Area overview page with navigation](/learning-model-b2b-commerce.md)
- [Next page: Why procurement governance matters](/learning-model-b2b-commerce/configure-approval-workflows/why-procurement-governance-matters.md)