Let's say your organization is set up for 5 levels of purchase requisition approvals. But some departments (for example IT) don't have someone at level 3 to approve.
The existing solution to this scenario has been to have a "000" approver "drop-down" to that level to approve those requisitions. Another solution is to assign a person to push all requisitions forward regardless of their status.
This new utility will handle this scenario automatically. It will check all open requisition detail lines to see if anyone exists at that level for approval, and if not, it will move those detail lines up a level, adding a "System Approval" entry on the status screen for that item.