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SAP Business : Accounts Payable Reporting

December 26th, 2009

This business refers to the process of generating the reports for account payable in SAP system.

Common Business Requirement

At period-end, vendor line items and balances should be analysed to ensure accurate postings and that the same vendor invoice was not posted twice in the SAP system. Following types of SAP reports are available

  • Vendor balance reports
  • Vendor line item reports
  • Vendor payment analysis reports
  • Duplicate invoice reports
  • Vendor master reports

 

The custom SAP report, Vendor Payment Analysis report and BW report Vendor Balance Details should also be generated.

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SAP Business : Correspondence with Vendors

December 22nd, 2009

This SAP business process refers to the process of creating and sending correspondence to vendors.

Common Business Requirement

The most common form of correspondence that the company sends to vendor is balance confirmation letter. In general, balance confirmation letter will be sent via email to vendors.

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SAP Business : Accounts Payable Interest Calculation

December 21st, 2009

This SAP business process covers the process of calculating interest payable to vendors.

Common Business Requirement

To calculate vendor interest using the SAP system, interest indicator needs to be maintained. Thereafter, there are several ways to calculate vendor interest:

  • Calculate interest without open items.
    The SAP system calculates interest on cleared vendor items (late payments) and post the interest.
  • Calculate interest with open items.
    The SAP system calculates interest on open (overdue) vendor items and cleared vendor items and posts the interest.
  • Calculate interest without posting.
    The SAP system calculates interest on open and/or cleared vendor items and does not post the interest.

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SAP Business : Clear Accounts Payable

December 20th, 2009

This SAP Business refers to the process of manually clearing vendor accounts.

Common Business Requirement

Manual clearing of vendor account is required where staff advance is posted in SAP system via special GL indicator. When the payroll text file from SAP HR system is uploaded, there will be a credit posting to the staff advance special GL account.

Hence, clearing of the staff advance special GL account must be performed by vendor account number via the account payable (AP) manual clearing function.

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SAP Business : Down Payment to Staff

December 16th, 2009

This SAP process refers to the process of making staff advances.

Common Business Requirement

Staff advance will be handled within the account payable (SAP AP) module if the country is not using any other application (e.g. SAP Travel Management) to handle staff advance.

Advances will be given to employees by company for approved purposes such as travelling or housing expenses. Advance payment can be made via payment run (automatic payment program) or manually.

 

After the staff advance has been posted in SAP system, the information will be passed to the Human Resource Department. Standard Vendor Balances in Local Currency report or customised Main Account Detail report will be generated to extract the staff advance information.

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