SAP Business : Accounts Payable Reporting

December 26, 2009 by mySAP
Filed under: Account Payable Process

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.

Detail Analysis

Standard AP reports are in ALV format which enables users to add/remove standard fields from reports to customize the reports according to their business needs.

The custom report Vendor Payment Analysis report should be generated if user needs to check which invoices are due or overdue for payment and download the information into excel.

This report is required as standard SAP report providing this information is not in ALV format and thus cannot be downloaded efficiently into excel.

The BW report, Vendor Balance Details should be generated to analyse payables by reconciliation accounts, document currency and special GL indicators.