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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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4 Ways in which SAP S/4HANA can pull A/R out of the back officeAug 12, 2021 — According to recent SAPinsider research, 77% of their audience are evaluating or have made the move to SAP S/4HANA. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA will improve business processes by offering teams real-time connectivity to all lines of business, from finance, supply chain, and manufacturing to sales, distribution, and more. Receivable teams need to stay agile and innovative with little disruption to business processes while increasing efficiency and automation. There is a wide range of business capabilities that the Cloud will bring to receivables innovation using machine learning and AI.
In this presentation, we will present 4 ways in which migrating to SAP S/4HANA Cloud helps achieve an intelligent accounts receivable management system.
You will learn:
-How A/R teams are automating repetitive, manual activities and implementing AI to leverage data-driven analytics making informed business decisions using SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
-How A/R leaders can achieve unparalleled visibility into the receivables process and free up resources to deliver on the company’s capital and cash flow goals by migrating to S/4HANA.
-Learning how to quickly disseminate information and capture insights from the sales processes in supply chains and act as a collaborator to accelerate the receivables turnaround time.
-Achieving a unified global view of your customers by eliminating data silos and helping A/R teams identify and respond to risky customer accounts in real-time by using Cloud solutions.
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Customer Q&A: How Radiant Logistics Automates more than 2 million Invoices Every YearJul 7, 2021 — Come hear how Radiant Logistics, Inc. (NYSE: RLGT) is a publicly-traded, non-asset-based global transportation and supply chain management company supports an annual invoice volume of approximately 2 million and a very complicated manual workflow process in North America. Bring your toughest questions and learn how Radiant manages complex invoices with often more than 100 pages of attachments through the deep integration of xSuite with SAP.
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The four indispensable FI-AP tips and tricks every SAP customer needs to knowMay 11, 2021 — Make your FI-AP processes run more efficiently and help your users be more productive with 4 indispensable tips and tricks. Understand your choices for using special G/L indicators. Learn the differences between internal and external vendor GR/IR accounts and learn how to pick the right option that best reflects your business situation. You will
- Get practical advice for tracing open items in an effective and rapid manner
- Find out how to use Special G/L indicators effectively
- Walk through a step-by-step process for segregating internal & external Goods Receipts (GR/IR account)
- Learn a little used trick to avoid the annoying fiscal year popup when double clicking on clearing documents
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How BORUSAN CAT automated incoming invoice processesJan 19, 2021 — Managing incoming invoices is generally a complicated process for the companies. Invoice approval/rejection process must be handled by the cooperation of the relevant business units who procured the service/product. Printed invoices has the risk of getting lost. Invoices should be recorded to the SAP ERP system on-time and error-free. By attending this session you will get an understanding of:
- How an incoming invoice portal can be developed to cover all the approval/rejection and automatic ERP system recording processes
- How OCR Technologies can be utilized so that printed invoices can be converted to e-invoices with all the metadata included
- Document Management System Opentext utilization to categorize and store all the incoming invoices in a single storage location
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Vendor Document Automation for Accounts Payable ProcessesOct 14, 2020 — Managing accounts payable and vendor invoice processing can be streamlined by applying automation. Reductions in human error, faster invoice processing times, and decreased labor costs are just some of the benefits that can be gained by using vendor document automation (VDA) software, which is offered as an add-on by many SAP certified suppliers.
In this Q&A, discover important facts about the key components of VDA, and a listing of vendors in this space. You will learn:
- The different components offered by VDA products and how these components can help you streamline processes;
- Efficiencies that can be gained by using VDA software and things to consider when implementing; and
- VDA software vendors recommended by the author.
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5 KPIs You Should Track & Share Within Your OrganizationFeb 26, 2020 — Creating a highly efficient and effective AR process requires an alignment of all the parties involved. That’s why getting instant access to the most relevant KPIs is so invaluable—but which KPIs will provide accurate insight into your global AR performance? In this eBook, you’ll discover which figures and data will provide the most benefit for […]
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How SAP Shops Can Mitigate the Risks of Accounts Payable ComplianceApr 17, 2019 — Accounts payable (AP) automation is supposed to save SAP customers money, but developments in digital tax may well make it a source of penalties and supply chain interruptions. With tax authorities all over the world seeking to increase revenues and close tax gaps, AP is becoming a new target for audits. Many SAP customers probably […]
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