Visibility into approval process

We are trying to figure out a way that a non system admin/ or request initiator can have visibility into what step in the approval process a Request is in. This is a need we have within IT so we can monitor where the flow has stopped if we need to keep pushing the request through. I am not the system admin, but I do have access to the Lawson tables and have experience querying A/P and GL tables for information. The system admin has not found a solution within the app itself. If there is an application solution, great I will forward it to the system admin. Or if there is (a) table(s) you can refer me to that would be great too and I will pull the information. What we want to get away from is having to call the system admin or request initiator every time we want to know what step of the approval process the request is in.

Thanks for any help. Let me know if you have any questions.

Greg