Automated accounts payable for SAP® applications
Esker DeliveryWare makes it easy to integrate best-practice accounts payable management with SAP solutions. With the Accounts Payable Module, SAP customers benefit from end-to-end capabilities for receiving, entering and tracking inbound vendor invoices — encompassing automated capture, reconciliation, posting, work task routing for approvals and detailed reporting.
Esker DeliveryWare combines dynamic content capture with integrated workflow and process tracking to help SAP customers address the challenges of manual data entry, manual paper routing, lack of coordination and lack of transparency within traditional vendor invoice processing as part of the purchase-to-pay cycle.
How the Accounts Payable Module works
When a fax, email, paper or electronic invoice arrives, Esker DeliveryWare captures data such as vendor number, purchase order number and due date for routing and indexing. No predefined templates are needed. Captured data is validated against SAP master data, and then transferred to the SAP system for accounts payable management.
The original invoice is directly linked to the new business transaction, allowing users to view both documents without leaving the SAP system. From SAP Content Server or other archive, process tracking with the Esker DeliveryWare solution leverages SAP Workflow for process coordination and control.
Key features of the Accounts Payable Module
- Automated invoice entry, work assignment and prioritization
- Real-time tracking of invoices
- Flexible, automated task routing
- Consistent processing rules
- Controlled exception handling for canceled transactions and blocked invoices
- Duplicate invoice checking
- Invoice approval, with side-by-side view of original and captured data
- Process history and audit trail, with continuous tracking of process data and status
- Central point of information for all vendor invoice management processes
- Minimized number of keystrokes to complete accounts payable process
- Dynamic work item descriptions and titles
- Reports on process time and volume, queued invoices, exceptions and blocks, due dates, discounts, scheduled payments
Benefits of accounts payable management with Esker DeliveryWare
By taking keystrokes out of the process and bringing visibility to the process, the Accounts Payable Module delivers immediate additional return on investment. SAP customers benefit from a fully optimized process for effective financial planning, efficient supply chain management and strong vendor relationships.
- Lower purchase-to-pay process costs by as much as 40–60%
- Receive and enter vendor invoices up to 65% faster
- Take full advantage of fast-payment discounts
- Prevent late and duplicate payments
- Improve response to vendor inquiries concerning invoice status
- Improve cash-on-hand planning
- Eliminate redundant ERS invoice processing
- Benchmark metrics such as vendor cost and employee performance
- Ready access to information for reporting and analysis to balance workloads and identify process bottlenecks
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