Infor Lawson Accounts Payable Invoice Automation Colleen Holm, Product Director, Infor 1
Discussion topics What is Accounts Payable Invoice Automation? How does it work? Demonstration Additional Information 2
Our strategy Architecture of the Internet Micro-verticals Suites Beauty Cohesive, upgrade-proof applications Deep, last mile features for industry sub-sectors Compelling user interfaces and consumer-grade experiences 3
Infor Lawson Accounts Payable Invoice Automation Role based Processor, Approvers, Manager and Administrator Integrated with existing Infor Lawson Financials Delivered integration with our content management partners Simplify the invoice approval process Reduce processing costs Faster access to more complete invoice information 4
What can you do with APIA? Receive Scan and Match Review Approve Receive Scan & Match Review Approve 5
How does it work? 6
Deliver Web Services 7
Invoice Assignment User Users are assigned based on flexible rules. Specific to General 8
AP Processor: Process Invoices 9
Routing and Approval Levels Approval Roles Priority Approval Role Description 1 SUPERVISOR Supervisor 2 MANAGER Manager 3 VP Vice President 10
Routing and Approval Levels Routing Category Accounting Unit Department Name 3040999 IT SERVICES 3040998 IT SYSTEMS 3040333 IT APPLICATION TECHN 3040187 PRACT MGMT SYSTEMS 3041135 CLINICAL SYSTEMS 3040378 IT ERP 3040345 IT ADMIN 11
Routing and Approval Levels Invoice Approval Codes and Levels Acct Unit Level Invoice Approval Role Invoice Approval Role Invoice Approval Role 3040999 Supervisor Manager VP Approval Limit <=$10,000 <=$50,000 <=$999,999,999 Escalation Days 1 2 2 Approvers P Wright D Smith H Noreen 12
Invoice Approval 13
Mobile approvals 14
Enabled by Infor Process Automation Delivered flow Configurable in Infor Process Designer New Infor Process Designer with Landmark 15
Manager Visibility 16
Demonstration- AP Manager 17
AP Manager 18
Manager Visibility 19
Details 20
Improve visibility 21
Improve efficiency 22
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Demonstration- AP Processor 25
AP Processor 26
Improve efficiency 27
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Enabled by Infor Process Automation Powers pre-built flows for invoice assignments to resources and invoice approvals Configurable in Infor Process Designer New Infor Process Designer with Landmark 30
Demonstration- Approver 31
Mobile approvals 32
Define email notification 33
Invoice Approval 34
My invoices 35
Invoice Approval Pending 36
Invoice Approval - Historical 37
Approval History 38
Demonstration- Administrator 39
Resources 40
Invoice Routing Rules 41
Update Analytic Cube 42
Video demonstrations are available on the Infor Lawson financial blog http://blogs.infor.com/finanical -applications/ Enter Search Term: Accounts Payable Invoice Automation 43
Key Benefits Support partner solutions for scanning (including OCR), imaging and indexing Flexible processing rules and account assignments Invoice entry Support for attachments, including scanned invoices and supporting docs Account / expense coding for Expense invoices Online workflow routing, review and approval process Approval rules Visibility to where an invoice is within the process Reduce costs for processing invoices Faster access to more complete information about invoices Tightly coupled with Infor Lawson financials Improved utilization of early payment discounts 44
Key Differentiators Visibility see the status of an invoice from entry to approval to payment Dashboards see what s coming due, past due, manage workloads Simplified workflow setup Sophisticated business rules and account assignments Integration with Lawson Vendor master and vendor defaults GL account strings Process Automation shared workflow across Lawson Future: Mobile, dynamic discounting, Ming.le support Remember: we have designed AP Invoice Automation to complement imaging and document capture partners 45
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How can you prepare? Become familiar with Landmark Technology Infor Process Automation Infor Process Designer Spreadsheet Designer Configuration Console Infor Ming.le 47
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Thank-you! Colleen M Holm Colleen.holm@infor.com 49
Additional Information 50
System Prerequisites Lawson System Foundation 9.0.1.x or higher Lawson Applications 9.0.1.8 or higher Lawson Applications 10.0.3 or higher Landmark Technology 10.1 or higher Databases: Oracle 11gR2 Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2008 Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition 2008 R2 IBM DB2 UDB 9.7 FP 4 or higher IBM DB2 on IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 x 64 IBM-AIX 6.1 or IBM-AIX 7.1 51
System Prerequisites Other Components: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 FP 21 or higher IBM HTTP Web Server 7.0 OR Microsoft IIS 6.0 or 7.0 Java Development Kit 1.6 FP 18 or higher Subversion 1.5.6 (Windows platform only) Perl 5.8.x or higher Desktop Requirements: Windows XP, Vista, or 7 JVM 1.6 FP 18 or higher Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0 Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 10+ 52
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