On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, OpenText and Avelon will host the exclusive "Beyond Finance" event in The Hague. This event is aimed at organizations that use OpenText Vendor Invoice Management and Core Capture. It is a unique opportunity to take a closer look at the Purchase to Pay and Order to Cash processes.

This blog introduces the Federated Master Data Governance (MDG) concept, a new option for data management within organizations. It emphasizes the critical importance of accurate master data for business operations. The blog explains the need for a federated approach in data governance, which balances central standardization with the specific requirements of different business units, and highlights benefits such as flexibility, efficiency, and cloud preparedness.

This blog introduces key updates in SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) on SAP S/4HANA 2023, highlighting the new cloud-ready mode for enhanced flexibility in data governance and federated governance for distributed data ownership. It also covers the integration with SAP Fiori 4.0 for a better user interface, along with updates in business partner governance, data quality management, and process analytics.

This blog post highlights the importance of data quality in modern, data-driven organizations, with SAP Data Quality Management (DQM) playing an essential role. SAP DQM, part of SAP Master Data Governance, maintains and improves data quality through processes such as data normalization, validation, correction, and quality monitoring.

This blog discusses cloud solutions for processing supplier invoices versus SAP Invoice Management (SAP IM). The best choice depends on organizational need. This article compares multiple options from an implementation and operational standpoint.

The University of Amsterdam and Hogeschool van Amsterdam recently switched from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA. Our colleague Hylke Visser supervised the transition of Vendor Invoice Management (VIM). Curious about more background on this transition and its impact on SAP VIM? Read all about it in this blog.

Our colleague Martin Nooteboom had the chance to support Nouryon with a solution for their Transportation Management invoice process. He created a solution to process the invoices coming into the regular process via SAP VIM, including an interface to SAP TM.

Implementing SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) on S/4HANA as the master data hub in your SAP landscape forces you to think about the migration of your suppliers and customers master data to business partners. This exercise should be performed in due course when you migrate to S/4HANA, it simplifies the transition if you have already completed this step.

Because of our long running partnership with OpenText we were recently invited again for an exciting OpenText Deep Dive session. During this technology focused event OpenText shared with us the latest strategic roadmap for Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) (also known as SAP Invoice Management (SIM)) and the related products like VIM Beyond Finance and Intelligent Capture.

PepsiCo has selected the Avelon Offline Email Approval solution. This is a functionality in ECC or S4/HANA that allows an approver to approve or reject a workflow step by clicking a link in an email without the user having a direct connection to SAP.

From recent versions of OpenText Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), also known as SAP Invoice Management (SIM), licences no longer apply only to the processing of invoices. The software is now also prepared to process other document types such as order confirmations, delivery notes, quotes, sales orders and payment advice. This expanded scope is referred to as VIM beyond Finance.

In this blog, we want to provide an overview of the new features that have been released (initial version on 13.10.2021) in the SAP MDG on S/4HANA 2021 version.

SAP wants to keep on strengthening the core, based on customer and partner priorities that are brought up by the Customer Connection program.

As you can see below, a lot of the new features are a result of an improvement request in the Customer Connection program. We recommend using this channel to enter or upvote your desired feature. If you want assistance on this topic, please reach out to us.

To develop reliable, automated workflows for the capture of business-critical data, Distrelec Group implemented OpenText™ Vendor Invoice Management (VIM). VIM is not only suitable for processing incoming invoices, but can also be used for processing quotations, delivery notes, PO confirmations and sales orders.

In the week of 8 to 12 November 2021, the VNSG organised its traditional annual online congress Focus Online. Avelon has also contributed to this by means of the webinar "Optimization through iRPA and chatbots". In this session, the added value and concrete use cases were discussed. The presentation was illustrated with a number of demos.

Recently, the so-called "free tier model" has become available for SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). This licensing model enables you to get started with your own free instance of SAP BTP. The free tier model offers the opportunity to explore and even productively try out services including SAP Robotic Process Automation (RPA) up to a certain capacity limit.

How do iRPA and chatbots help to optimise your processes, reduce the pressure on administrative & support departments while increasing service levels? Would you like answers to these questions and insight into the initial explorations that the University of Utrecht, WML and the Province of Noord Brabant have carried out together with SAP and Avelon? Then watch this webinar.

The desire of the Provincie Noord Brabant to reduce the complexity for users and to improve insight and efficiency was the reason for the implementation of SAP S/4HANA and within it the Procure to Pay suite from Avelon. This suite is a modern, user-oriented solution for a simple, streamlined, compliant and audit-proof purchase order and invoice handling process in SAP.

Many SAP users link local PC files to SAP documents. In addition, many outgoing documents are generated by the SAP system.

The table in which attachments and generated documents are stored (the table SOFFCONT1) can take up to 25% of the total database. When looking at the cost of storage in an SAP HANA environment, a reduction of the database can realize significant cost savings.

As annual tradition, SAP rewarded the collaboration with its partners by presenting the SAP Partner Awards. Prizes were awarded to those who have delivered exceptional performance in the past year. This year, Avelon made it through to the finals for the "SAP Service Partner of the year" award. Of course, we are extremely proud of that!

Due to the growth of the organisation, Wavin needed a more robust and comprehensive solution for the management of master data. With SAP Master Data Governance (MDG), Wavin and SAP partner Avelon are laying the foundation for a Master Data Hub where all master data are centrally consolidated and stored.

In the week of 2 to 6 November 2020, VNSG renamed its traditional annual congress VNSG Focus Online. Avelon contributed to this event. In our session, the importance of master data management and data quality was discussed. Explained was how SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) helps to increase data and process quality in your IT landscape.

Proper implementation, optimization and management of SAP Invoice Management (SIM) requires specific knowledge.

Utrecht University therefore called on the expertise of Avelon. "The processing of incoming invoices is now excellent," says Rob Plattèl, director of the Administrative Service Centre (ASC) of Utrecht University.

Avelon considers SAP Master Data Governance as one of its focus areas.

In this blog we focus specifically on SAP Master Data Governance for Financials (MDG-F). SAP MDG-F is SAP's standard solution for centrally managing financial master data such as cost centers, cost center groups, cost types, cost elements etc.

The SAP Fiori Launchpad is the starting point for SAP Fiori apps. Since 2016 it has been possible to consume SAP Fiori from the SAP Cloud Platform via the SAP Fiori Cloud Edition. In Q4 2020 a new option will be added for setting up a SAP Fiori Launchpad, namely the SAP Cloud Platform Launchpad. In this blog we will discuss this new functionality and why it has been introduced.

For many organizations, processing incoming invoices is a costly and often manual process. OpenText has developed Vendor Invoice Management (VIM), also known as SAP Invoice Management (SIM), to solve these problems and to professionalize invoice processing.

OpenText offers various Fiori applications to support the SAP Invoice Management processes.

SAP (Business) workflow is the technical foundation of process optimization within both SAP ECC and S/4HANA. In recent years, SAP has developed various complementary tools that are grouped as Intelligent Business Process Management. In this blog various components are discussed such as SAP Workflow, SAP Cloud Platform Workflow, SAP Chatbots, SAP Intelligent RPA and SAP Cloud Platform Process Visibility.

Recently, OpenText presented the latest developments in SAP Invoice Management and SAP Digital Content Processing at the "Partner Deep Dive". Because of COVID-19, the planned meeting in Munich was changed to a very interesting 2-day virtual session.

In the first part of the blog "Increase your productivity by using chatbots" an introduction on chatbots was discussed. In this blog, the technical aspects of a chatbot and SAP Conversational AI (SAP CAI) are discussed in more detail.

With 35 representatives from more than 20 different companies using SAP Invoice Management, Friday 31 January 2020 was another successful SIM Customer Day.