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C-level leaders are prioritizing more autonomous operations. To achieve this, they need trusted data, an understanding of document context, and efficient processes—critical to preventing costly mistakes and protecting customer and vendor relationships.
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There is absolutely no way the team could handle processing if the OpenText solution was not in place… It’s now a business-critical process.
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Automation saves our teams significant amounts of time. For example, we have shrunk our payment run preparations from eight hours to just 1.5 hours and cut month-end closing by two days.
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We looked for a reputable and reliable partner to help us build the best possible digital AP process, with full compatibility with our vendor portal solution and SAP ERP system. Enhancing the flexibility of alfanar’s existing vendor invoice management [VIM] portal was very important to us.
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If we’d been processing RENT assistance payments manually, it would have taken five hours to get each application approved and ready to pay. With the automated workflow we’ve built in the OpenText solution, we can get those payments ready to go in less than 15 minutes—95% faster.
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Help sales, procurement, finance, and compliance teams capture any document, collaborate efficiently, and manage workflows with transparency, control, and security inside their SAP ERP.
Receive, register, process, and track all inbound documents from any source within your SAP ERP.
Improve collaboration with automated, role-based routing to the right users, comments, and real-time updates for specialists, approvers, and business partners.
Identify bottlenecks and monitor the processing status and backlog with dashboards and audit trails, and enforce service level agreements with reminders and notifications.
Uncover inefficiencies and make data-driven improvements to the process configuration with built-in analytics.
Flag duplicate documents, mismatches, and unusual activity early with checks and validation rules.
Maximize the value of adding context to structured and unstructured content by connecting to SAP Business AI, SAP Business Network, the OpenText™ Trading Grid, and OpenText™ Content Management.
Our SAP-native invoice management and document processing application is built for control, speed, and scalability with pre-configuration for invoices, purchase orders, order confirmations, delivery notes, quotations, and remittance advices.
Optimizes and automates the processing of the most common workflows, with country-specific rules, business-centric roles, and actions that are easy to understand, extend, and enhance.
Automates tasks such as matching items, managing approvals, and intelligently minimizing data entry and user actions—using business context, historic data, and flexible AI algorithms.
Leverages SAP Fiori applications to work on tasks, track processing status, and provide interactive real-time dashboards on any device.
Enables vendors to access invoice updates and resolve issues faster with integrated self-service tools that improve relationships and reduce disruptions through calls or e-mails.
Maintains secure, traceable records for regulatory compliance, tax auditing, and internal policy enforcement, such as segregation of duties.
Visualizes processing performance with real-time dashboards and reports embedded in SAP S/4HANA for full transparency and to drive continuous process improvement.
Enhance your end-to-end process experience with add-ons that streamline work, remove friction, and create a seamless, efficient environment for your teams.
OpenText™ Core Capture for SAP® Solutions extracts essential data from incoming documents and feeds it directly into your SAP workflows. This integration manages the configuration within SAP, includes the business context into the extraction, and enables you to validate results within SAP Fiori.
OpenText™ Core Archive for SAP® Solutions is a secure, cloud-native SAP document and data archiving solution that simplifies storage, strengthens compliance, and reduces infrastructure costs. Enable rapid access to critical business documents and scale with your enterprise.
Break down silos and keep teams aligned with instant access to up-to-date documents within every process. Deliver the right content to people quickly and securely, helping them make decisions faster, collaborate smoothly, and keep work moving.
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This course will introduce the student to OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions. The participant will learn how to use the solution to process various invoice scenarios.
This course will introduce the students to OpenText VIM solutions beyond invoice. The participant will learn how to leverage VIM Foundation as the platform for typical use cases such as processing sales orders, order confirmations, delivery notes, and more.
This class teaches the students how to implement Vendor Invoice Management for Invoice Automation. Features, concepts, configuration and best practices will be covered.
This self-paced course shares the newest updates to the VIM family of products. This includes the VIM invoice solution, VIM beyond invoice, and OpenText Core Capture for SAP Solutions. This course guides customers, partners, and consultants through the most recent innovations.
Optimize the value of your OpenText solution with dedicated experts who provide mission-critical support for your complex IT environment.
OpenText VIM for SAP supports all releases from ECC 6 up to the latest S/4HANA releases—whether they run on-premises or in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition (RISE with SAP). It also supports mixed environments where customers run multiple instances with different versions in parallel.
No additional infrastructure is needed for OpenText VIM for SAP Solutions. It runs as an add-on within your SAP ERP instance, and it’s the most secure way to process documents in SAP. No data leaves your system—the integrated security and user authentication applies and protects your finances.
Yes, the growing number of released APIs and CDS views allows you to enhance or extend the processing on-stack or side-by-side in SAP BTP. Examples are adding data enrichments or business rules, or defining approval strategies.
It uses versatile mapping logic to convert structured data into header and line-item fields. Included are the most common mappings out-of-the-box as well as an interactive mapping editor to configure the mapping based on sample documents. The additional PDF rendition makes the data comprehensible.
A single platform for all document types creates an economy of scale. It requires less learning and configuration, offers a flexible use of licenses, and optimizes end-to-end processes. For example, you can process order confirmations and delivery notes to help avoid invoice exceptions.
All global and many regional system integrators train and certify their teams to implement this solution. We also recommend you familiarize yourself with configuration and use by reading “Vendor Invoice Management with SAP” (published by SAP Press), or by attending one of our trainings.
Rules, roles, and actions bridge the gap between business and IT. Rules describe what humans typically need to check, roles map business functions to individuals or teams, and actions describe how to resolve a problem. Their combination defines the processing options for every situation.
All users work seamlessly and in real time in their preferred environment with quick back-and-forth navigation, full security, and integrated application and data lifecycle management. Configuration and data change tracking allows you to audit internal controls in one system.
AI and machine learning can enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and improve supplier relationships.
Read the blogGuest author, Claudia Grosch, explains how the company achieved 99% faster invoice processing.
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Read the blogThe world has turned digital, enabling more automation, faster productivity, and quicker time to value—so organizations can become more competitive with faster decision velocity. From document migration to vendor payments and more efficient accounts payable teams, automation and AI bring great benefits for organizations to thrive in the digital world. IDC’s April 2024 SaaSPath Survey data found that 52% of global organizations are prioritizing e-Invoicing approaches in 2024.