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SAP AR AP: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP AR AP?
SAP AR AP represents the accounts receivable and accounts payable sub-module components of the SAP Financial (FI) module and helps maintain financial relationships with vendors and customers, as well as manage their accounting data. The SAP accounts receivable sub-module (FI-AR) handles customer invoices, approvals, and incoming payments, enabling organizations to access reports and forecasting features for tracking customer outstanding balances. The SAP accounts payments sub-module (FI-AP) manages vendor invoices, approvals, and outgoing payments to provide organizations with the necessary information for tracking outstanding balances belonging to vendors.
SAP AR AP: An Overview and Key Considerations
What Is SAP AR AP?
SAP AR AP represents the accounts receivable and accounts payable sub-module components of the SAP Financial (FI) module and helps maintain financial relationships with vendors and customers, as well as manage their accounting data. The SAP accounts receivable sub-module (FI-AR) handles customer invoices, approvals, and incoming payments, enabling organizations to access reports and forecasting features for tracking customer outstanding balances. The SAP accounts payments sub-module (FI-AP) manages vendor invoices, approvals, and outgoing payments to provide organizations with the necessary information for tracking outstanding balances belonging to vendors.
SAP AR AP plays a significant role in providing organizations with end-to-end financial management. Finance and accounting teams can streamline their financial processes and improve their overall financial visibility by preventing duplicate inter-company AR/AP postings.
Additional key benefits for SAP AR AP end-users include:
- Improved cash flow
- Better budgeting and forecasting capabilities
- Enhanced decision-making capabilities
- Improved customer service
- Streamlined operations.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders
Consider options to enhance SAP AR AP capabilities with a move to SAP S/4HANA. SAP S/4HANA Cloud, enabled by in-memory processing and simplified SAP Fiori interfaces, offers extended SAP AR/AP functionality. As a result, organizations can expect improved performance and faster response times when executing financial transactions, with all postings across the SAP AR AP function updating to the SAP General Ledger (FI-GL).
Leverage SAP AR AP best practices to streamline operational processes. The SAP Best Practices Explorer provides standardized essential process flows to help lower the cost of operations and deliver business benefits across multiple geographies, divisions, subsidiaries, and ledgers with global and country-specific content. For example, organizations can realize cost savings by centralizing account receivables and account payables processing, allowing finance and accounting managers to enforce governance and common standards, supporting compliance efforts.
Enable operational efficiencies with SAP AR AP automation. Organizations can save time and money by reducing the workload of finance and accounting teams when AR/AP automation is improved. In addition, core business functions, such as order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes, are more efficient when organizations significantly reduce the effort required for manual approvals with automation.
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Delego’s Five Steps To Get Customers To Pay Invoices on TimeJul 17, 2023 — No matter how well-orchestrated an accounts receivable process is, sometimes customers will simply fail to finalize payments. Some customers may want to hold onto liquid capital as long as possible, others may have overworked finance teams who forget or misplace invoices, while some may just consider making payments a low priority.
Without the risk of serious consequences, some payments falling through the cracks is inevitable. Still, organizations should do everything they can to encourage timely payments. To help companies overcome these issues, the payments experts at Delego provided five tips that can help encourage customers to complete their payments on time.
In this article, we will break down the five tips. They are delivering invoices early, sending payment reminders, simplifying the process, addressing concerns, and improving accounts receivable processes. We will also break down each of these points, and offer suggestions as to how enterprises can accommodate these suggestions throughout their accounts receivable processes.
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IPS and CSI Edenred Announce New Name and Brand Image: Edenred PayJul 7, 2023 — Following its October 2022 acquisition by Edenred, IPS and CSI Edenred are now fully merged. The company will now be known as Edenred Pay going forward. In a press release, the company revealed its new name and brand image on its new corporate website.
“We are excited to announce our new name and brand image,” said Edenred Pay CEO Marc Divay. “This is a significant milestone for our company, and it reflects our commitment to B2B payments automation. We believe that our integrated B2B payments platform and new name and brand image will better position us to continue to grow and succeed in the years to come.”
The move reinforces the positioning of Edenred Pay as it moves beyond invoice-to-pay, offering its clients a wider array of services. As part of the press release, Edenred Pay pledged to “continue to offer its full suite of B2B payment solutions, and it will also be adding new solutions in the future.”
In this article, we will analyze some of the solutions users can expect from Edenpay going forward, as well as how SAPinsiders can expect to be affected.
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From Manual to Automated: The Benefits of Invoice Automation for Accounts PayableJun 15, 2023 — Join us for an exciting webinar on the future of accounts payable invoice automation, presented in partnership with SAPinsider. AP teams face increased pressure to do more with less in today's fast-paced business world. Manual invoice processing can be time-consuming and error-prone, leading to delayed payments and strained vendor relationships. Recent SAPinsider benchmark research reveals that 76% of SAPinsiders fail to digitize paper invoices, illustrating why manual work and processes remains a top driver shaping accounts payable automation strategies and investments among SAP organizations.
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AP Automation – What, Why and How?May 9, 2023 — Accounts Payable is one of the most important aspects of any SAP organization. Ensuring that suppliers are paid on time keeps the business running smoothly. Yet many companies are still running this crucial part of the business with too many manual touchpoints. Each touchpoint opens the company up to human error. It can also be difficult for people to manage the different kinds of invoices, like paper invoices, EDI invoices, invoices to dedicated email box, fax, and more.
To help address these issues, SAPinsider expert Chanda Verma will share her tips and key considerations for companies looking to enact AP automation. This includes how to build a business case for AP automation, how to get started with the solution, and how to find the solution provider that best meets the needs of your organization.
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How EMEA Organizations Are Leveraging Automation to Improve AP Invoice Management ProcessesFeb 23, 2023 — Survey respondents operating in EMEA facing challenges with manual work and manual processes across AP invoice management are prioritizing a move to SAP S/4HANA as an opportunity to transform AP functions at their organizations. This represents the leading driver for EMEA respondents regarding their approach to automating AP invoice management.
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Automating AP Invoice Management North America DerivativeFeb 22, 2023 — In the full benchmark report, most SAP organizations identified insufficient automation leading to manual work and manual processes as the primary factor affecting their strategic approaches to automating AP processes. Similarly, this strategic priority aligned with nearly a third (32%) of survey respondents from North American-based organizations as the top driver of AP process automation, starting with AP invoice management.
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Automating AP Invoice Management Research Webinar On-DemandFeb 16, 2023 — This report explores the need for SAPinsider organizations to consider automating AP processes to save time, reduce operational costs associated with manual labor, and minimize human errors that result from repetitive or complex tasks. Our findings show that most survey respondents (76%) do not digitize incoming paper invoices, while eight in ten (80%) survey respondents reported an average throughout time for incoming invoices exceeding 14 days. By utilizing strategies for automating AP invoice management, organizations can optimize their entire AP invoicing process, gain full compliance with global regulations, and improve cash flow.
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Top Three 2023 Topics for Your Procurement and AP TeamsFeb 8, 2023 — Finance departments are under constant pressure to make their processes both more efficient and more compliant. At the same time, they deal with challenges such as skills shortages, disrupted supply chains, and increasing cybersecurity risk. In this webinar, we will examine what contribution Procurement and AP teams can make to tackle these challenges and increase resilience in finance departments. Explore how processes in these teams can become more efficient, flexible, and user-friendly, and what technological trends support companies in achieving this.
Join us to hear from the President & CEO of Xsuite, Danny Schaarmann, as he sheds light on the three most important technology trends to reach these goals in Procurement and AP teams – artificial intelligence in finance, international e-voicing initiatives, and digital vendor communication.
Session Takeaways:
Understand the relevance of AI for AP processes.
Identify possibilities to smoothen vendor onboarding and communications.
Build a timeline to cope with international e-invoicing requirements.
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Automating AP Invoice Management – Benchmark Research ReportDec 29, 2022 — Reducing operational costs and increasing productivity requires strategies for automating accounts payable (AP) invoice management, as manual or partially automated processes no longer provide efficiency. An expanding digital economy and increased competition require organizations to have efficient processes to support and maintain supplier relationships and keep pace with industry peers. With a hybrid workforce and increasing global e-invoicing requirements, organizations must ensure visibility into their AP invoices across multiple countries, currencies, and payment methods.
This report explores the need for SAPinsider organizations to consider automating AP processes to save time, reduce operational costs associated with manual labor, and minimize human errors that result from repetitive or complex tasks. Our findings show that most survey respondents (76%) do not digitize incoming paper invoices, while eight in ten (80%) survey respondents reported an average throughput time for incoming invoices exceeding 14 days. By utilizing strategies for automating AP invoice management, organizations can optimize their entire AP invoicing process, gain full compliance with global regulations, and improve cash flow.
From October to December of 2022, SAPinsider surveyed 188 finance community members to learn more about the strategic priorities of SAP organizations regarding their approach to automating AP processes.
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Serrala Talks Payments Modernization and AutomationAug 4, 2022 — Regarding process improvement, there are many initiatives that CFOs and treasurers can tackle to increase efficiency and optimize performance. One such initiative is automating manual processes – an area particularly relevant for Accounts Payable (AP) teams. By automating manual and paper-based processes, AP teams can gain greater efficiencies and improve their overall performance. In addition, […]
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