Green$-$Green Market Ltd is a wholesaler supplying fresh fruits and vegetables to a number of large retail grocery stores across South Africa. Green$-$Green Market Ltd purchases inventory $($fruits and vegetables$)$ directly from farmers and repackages the fruits and vegetables into smaller units for household consumption, before sales to retail stores take place. The following control procedure takes place in the acquisition and payments cycle:

The head of the creditor$$s section, Ms Payme, does not have write access to the payment schedule file.

Which one of the following alternatives best describes the function within the computerised acquisition and payment cycle the above procedure relates to$?$