The Transaction Approval Manager (TAM) provides intelligent management and communications of NetSuite records that need to meet specific business rules which include capacities to override based on role. See related article: http://blog.prolecto.com/2016/09/05/get-control-auto-approve-netsuite-transactions-with-hold-rule-checks/ Finally, the Transaction Approval Manager now has been superseded by the Record State Manager (RSM).