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What customer need does this solve?
Cash advances, purchase requests, reimbursements, and budget exceptions often need different approval paths depending on amount, department, project, or risk. If people manually decide where to send each case, rules become inconsistent and hard to audit.
The business need is simple: apply policy the same way every time, while still keeping the process fast for low-risk work.
What the solution should solve
The solution should evaluate request data against configurable rules. In the demo, a cash advance above the defined threshold is escalated automatically to Finance. The requester does not need to know the routing logic, and the approver can see why the task arrived.
This turns policy into an executable part of the workflow instead of a PDF that people must remember.
Trade-offs and alternatives
The benefit is consistency, auditability, and lower coordination cost. The trade-off is that rules need ownership. Someone in operations, finance, or compliance must maintain thresholds and review whether they still match current policy.
Alternatives include hard-coded routing, manual assignment, or broad manager approval for everything. Hard-coded routing is stable but slow to change. Manual assignment is flexible but inconsistent. Asking managers to approve everything is simple but creates bottlenecks.
Conclusion
Threshold-based routing is one of the most practical places to digitize policy. It helps companies move faster without making spending control depend on memory, habit, or informal exceptions.