Currently right now departments are submitting a paper Purchase Requisition to the Purchasing dept.  In many cases the form either does not have the proper information entered or authorization to process the Purchase Requisition.  This causes many phone calls back and forth with the initiator of the Purchase Requisition and with this time passes and the Purchase Requisition is not processed in a timely manner.  If the automated process is implemented; specific fields of the Purchase Requisition will be made mandatory and the Purchase Req can not move forward until the requestor completes them. Also the automated version of the purchase process will automatically send the completed Purchase Req to the proper person who needs to approve the Purchase Req prior to sending it to the Purchasing Dept.  Another added benefit is that this will save on cost of paper and ink because less printing will occur.