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amount of money which is to be paid to vendor is called accounts payable.
Procurement department raises the purchase order, Goods/ services are received. Bills received from vendor
are handed over to finance department. Finance department creates vendor invoice. Its the responsibility of
finance department to pay to vendor on time.
Organization have huge list of vendors. Organizations keep receiving goods/ services from vendor and vendor
sends bills accordingly. Out of thousands of bills, keeping track of which bill is paid and which bill is due for
payment becomes difficult.
A vendor may need to be paid by check but other vendor may need to be paid by online bank transfer. Hence
different payment method for different vendors, hence bills need to be segregated depending upon payment
method. This makes is difficult to track.
Employee needs to prepare payment information to bank so that bank can process the payment to vendors.
Manual intervention invites scope for error and hence lot of rework.
4. Bank reconciliation
When vendor payment is done, money is deducted from organizations bank account and paid to vendors bank
account. Hence employee working in accounts payable module needs to coordinate with bank to reconcile
organizations account books with balance in bank account. Employee also needs to communicate with vendor
to keep the vendor informed that payment has been initiated for so and so bills.
With large number of vendors and huge list of bills, it becomes very difficult for employee working in account
payable to keep track of all the things.
1. Sap makes tracking of vendor invoices very easy: open & cleared status of invoice
Whenever bill from vendor is received, vendor invoice is posted in sap. Vendor invoice by default is created in
open status, open status means that payment is not yet done for the invoice. Once invoice is paid, status of the
invoice changes from open to cleared.
Vendor invoices can be segregated into open & cleared by simply executing report (T code: FBL1N).
Employees dont need to spend their entire time on coordinating with bank to reconcile organizations account
books with balance in bank account.
Sap automates the process of bank reconciliation which reduces time consuming manual activities.
Organization receives bank statement from bank (in the form of files over internet), these files are picked and
processed by sap jobs. On successful processing of bank statement, document is posted which enables bank
reconciliation.
Above picture summarizes the accounts payable process in sap.