Supply Chain Business Process Re-Engineering: Automate “Logistic Invoice Verification” Payment Block Process—A Case Study on SAP R-Payment Block
摘要
The quantity of financial transactions for each company process has increased due to the recent developments in corporate digitization. Monitoring every transaction conducted in various departments within a firm, such as accounts payable and receivable, is a very challenging task. Businesses always want to keep accurate records of every transaction they do, and they never want to pay their vendors more or less. Thousands of vendor invoices are posted daily in large-scale enterprises, making it incredibly challenging to maintain track of every transaction. Since the introduction of ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning), all financial transactions are recorded in accordance with accounting rules, and business operations are closely integrated. Automating repetitive business operations is another benefit of ERPs. This is beneficial in preventing mistakes made by people. In a three-way match process, where materials are acquired through purchase orders (PO), received through goods receipts (GR), and invoices are posted through invoice receipts (IR), this study demonstrated how SAP (ERP software) automation aids in applying and removing the payment block for vendor invoices. This study additionally endeavours to identify the shortcomings in the current SAP payment block (application or removal of payment block) solution. The paper also includes a method for removing the payment block automatically with the help of a bespoke program.