One of the advantages in FIORI that users benefit from are the overview apps that bring several applications under one roof. Such apps can be found in every business area and appeal to almost all user groups. Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable - S/4HANA AP/AR - is no exception. See an overview of the most important applications and functions of the submodule.
Accounts Payable Overview - the most important figures at a glance
The user can obtain an overview of the most important accounts payable figures at the push of a button via the application of the same name. This is structured like a kind of dashboard with maps to individual documents and sub-areas. While the user had to call up separate transactions or various tables for the information displayed in GUI, the "Accounts Payable Overview" app provides the most important figures at a glance, some of which are additionally illustrated with diagrams.
On the individual cards, current figures for overdue receivables, blocked invoices, or pre-entered invoices, for example, are retrieved and displayed. The user can access the editing or detailed view by clicking on the respective card.
The user can determine which values are displayed by refining the search with the filters offered. Each user can save the results for himself as a standard view. This also applies to the maps: the user can design the overview individually and show and hide the maps as desired or arrange them user-specifically using drag-and-drop functionality.
EXCEL UPLOAD - EFFICIENT POSTING THROUGH AUTOMATION
Once several bookings are pending, the user can post them en masse by conveniently uploading them via Excel. SAP provides an Excel template with which the bookings are automatically and thus efficiently loaded into the system.
- The template can be used for single invoices as well as for multiple documents.
- Customer-specific dimensions (Z fields) can be added to the standard template.
Note: Invoices based on purchase orders are not supported by this app.
Display Customer List - A CLEAR ALTERNATIVE TO GUI
Although the accounts receivable and accounts payable lists in GUI contained all the necessary information, they were anything but clear. This has now been solved with the "Accounts Receivable Directory" and "Accounts Payable Directory" apps. The directories in FIORI have the following main features:
- Clarity and user-friendliness in contrast to the rather confusing master data lists in the GUI.
- Short preview available to quickly retrieve address data.
- List structure can be configurated by the user: From the list of available fields, he can choose which columns to display and configurate the order.
- Excel export option included.
INTERCOMPANY MATCHING AND RECONCILIATION
As the complexity of cash flows in a global economy increases, so do the efforts of those responsible for finance: identifying the inevitable errors and correcting them manually is laborious and takes time. The S/4HANA reconciliation solution Intercompany Matching and Reconciliation (ICMR) tracks down the transaction discrepancies and reconciles the differences, in some cases automatically. The monthly, quarterly or year-end closing activities can be significantly simplified and accelerated with this solution.
User-friendly FIORI apps provide a transparent view of IC reconciliation. The Intercompany Matching Monitor allows direct comparison of posted documents between different business units. The user is free to select the matching method to compare values of the selected corporate entity with the values of the partner entity for the desired period.
Matched items are matched based on the rules stored in the selected matching method and summarized in matching documents.
The monitor outputs the comparison results with color support: Green are the matches, yellow the deviating values.
![[Translate to English:] ICMR](/fileadmin/trendblog/Fiori_for_FICO__AP-AR_und_ICMR/ICMR.svg)
One of the advantages in FIORI that users benefit from are the overview apps that bring several applications under one roof. Such apps can be found in every business area and appeal to almost all user groups. In accounts payable and accounts receivable, apps can also be used specifically to facilitate work and make cash flows more transparent.
Summary
With FIORI, SAP simplifies the daily work of users from the business departments: Where information had to be gathered and reports built, an overview is available at the push of a button. Each user is free to decide which data they want to see and which applications they want to work with: they can permanently hide the information they don't need and adapt the views as they wish.
