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VIM (recently renamed OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions), which continues to position itself as the market-leading solution for managing incoming documents (invoices, sales orders, order confirmations, quotes, delivery notes and payment notices) and the process automation in SAP, presents its new version for both SAP ECC and S/4HANA.
What are the relevant improvements in this new version of VIM?
Let's look at the improvements of the VIM solutions:
- Invoice Solution
- Foundation
- Solution Beyond Invoices
Improvements to the Invoice Solution in the latest version of VIM
La Invoice Solution is the tool for SAP ECC and S/4HANA that automates the processing of supplier invoices in SAP. The main new features of the new version are:
- A new data migration utility is provided to make it easier to upgrade to the latest version for customers who are already using the central electronic mapping tool.
- An improved PDF viewing function has been introduced using SAP Smart Forms, which allows the visualization of data from input files in XML format.
- In the context of Polish invoices, the KSef reference number and the purchase date are recorded and displayed on the VIM DP indexing screen together with SAP's Document Compliance and Reporting.
- SAP has expanded the response functionality of eDocuments to support country-specific rejection codes, for example, Peppol rejection codes, Italian codes, etc.
- For invoices from Italy, the Item Reference Number (ARN) is allowed on VIM invoices.
- “redo role resolution” utility for existing workflows.
- Lease invoices are now compatible in the following applications: Invoice Solution Fiori Apps, Enter Cost Assignment Advanced, Approve Invoices and My Approved Invoices.
- VIM Solutions uses the functions provided by the VIM Foundation base component.
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Foundation solution improvements in the new version of VIM
VIM Foundation is comprised of the following components: Input, Processing, Workplace and Analytics. The most important new features of this component in the new version are:
- Extracting documents in Arabic is supported.
- Availability of the central electronic mapping tool to support the processing of any electronic document.
- Improvements to IES Extraction Analytics with new KPIs:
- Improved field calculation logic, allowing metrics based on mandatory fields.
- New IES analytical tables at the position level for advanced extraction calculations.
- The same entry point with extraction analytics without the need for an individual node in VIM Central Workplace.
- Improvements to the Fiori and Framework components.
- The determination of the entity based on additional information from SAP and its visualization in Fiori Capture Validation has been improved.
- Intelligent Capture load management for SAP has been optimized.
Improvements to the Beyond Invoices solution in the new version of VIM
Beyond Invoices It is the solution for automate the processing of all types of incoming documents in SAP (not just vendor invoices) and is comprised of:
- Procure to Pay Solutions
- Order Confirmation
- Delivery notes
- Quotation
- Order to Cash Solutions:
- Sales Order
- Remittance Notice
The new version includes these sales order processing improvements:
- New processes have been implemented for the automatic determination of the delivery date and the calculation of net value based on quantity and amount.
- It is possible to use the Bill of Materials (BoM) in articles.
- After entering a single customer in the “billed to” or “delivered to” fields, it is possible to manually enter all customer information in the corresponding fields.
- It is possible to process electronic orders according to Peppol specifications and standards.
- A new view is added to the IES Extraction Panel as a node in the Incoming Orders Work Center.
With these improvements outlined in the product release notes, the combination of VIM and Capture solutions, together with a robust input, processing and user interface framework, adds to SAP ECC and S/4HANA all the capabilities and functions necessary for the efficient processing of incoming business documents.
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