Approve within the approved budget. Anything outside it routes to the line producer, and above the delegated limit to a producer — Key Term 11 on every contract.
Settled and in flight
Approval routing
Production co-ordinator
Compliance only — start pack complete, contract signed and countersigned, documents match the deal.
UPM
Approves anything within the approved budget for the department.
Line producer
Confirms hours, and signs off anything out of budget.
Producer
Above the delegated limit, and any term not in the contract at all.
Nobody approves their own. A UPM invoicing as crew on another production routes to a producer.