I've activated business /SAPSRM/C_SC_600_001_SP04 - shopping cart with one-level manager approval in SAP SRM but SC that is transferred from ERP immediately has the status of "approved".
actually what you are experiencing is the standard behaviour. A similar is discussed in the following document:
https://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm702/helpdata/EN/45/e6d885db114ebbe10000000a11466f/frameset.htm. Here it is mentioned that the documents are created immediately. This is because the workflow should be handled at the sender's side and at the SRM side there should be no change on that document. This ensure that in both the ECC and SRM side the documents are identical. E.g: it will cause issues if a completioner approver would change the document in the SRM. Then the document which supposed to be the same on both side, will be different.
Please see also an old archived sap discussion in this topics:
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