Situation:

A referral needs to be approved by the manager of the referring department (Office A) before it can be processed by the department that normally services the referral (Office B).

Solution:

1. Route the referrals directly to the manager of the referring branch/office/department. In other words if the referral is originating from Office A, then the employee needs to send the referral to Office A instead of Office B. Set up the product for manager gatekeeper so that the manager of Office A will be the only person that can take action on the referral after it is initially sent.

2. Have the manager of Office A review the referral, and if its approved, the
manager of Office A will Re-Route the referral to the correct office that services the referral (Office B).

The best way to do that right now would be to setup a special department with just that one employee and make that employee the manager of this department. Setup the product with Manager Gatekeeper = Y and map the product only to this new department. Referral Trak will have a new Product Group reporting facility that will allow reports to be pulled based on groupings of products independent of Product Categories. This means that you can split up the products across multiple virtual departments without affecting your ability to generate aggregated or correct product-driven reports.

The manager of the branch/department/office in question should use the Re-Assign tool as that is the most efficient means to accomplish this task. Use of the Re-Route tool is intended for cases where the destination branch/department/office originally selected was incorrect and the product referred itself may have been incorrectly selected.

Note: In this example the 3rd party will be called ACME Experts.