Introduction

Sap Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions (VIM) is a prepackaged composite application that works with SAP ERP systems to streamline accounts payable (AP) operations. Vendor Invoice Management becomes increasingly more important as technology continues to advance, with correspondingly larger impacts on company operations.

Prerequisties

• ABAP Programming
• Especially working with tables
• Dialog Programming, SAP Workflow.

Course Content

1. Overview

• How VIM addresses A/P challenges
• VIM process overview: scan to payment
• VIM components & architecture
• SAP documents: parked and posted
• Swimlane process diagram
• VIM user roles
• Introduction of ICC/OCR

2. VIM Component Functions and User Interface

• Document Processing (DP)
• DP Dashboard
• Exception Handling
• Invoice Exception Dashboard
• Invoice Approval SAPGUI interface
• Invoice Approval Web (Theoretical)
• Mobile Approval (Theoretical)

3. VIM Non-PO Invoice Processing

• VIM Non-PO Process flow
• VIM Non-PO Roles
• Scanning
• OCR
• Indexing
• Invoice exception processing
• Invoice approvals – SAP GUI

4. VIM PO Invoice Processing

• SAP three way match
• VIM PO process flows: with and without OCR
• VIM PO roles
• Scanning: with and without OCR
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) overview
• OCR: PO invoice key information
• Indexing
• Invoice exception processing

5. Reports & Background Jobs

• VIM Analytics reports
• Central reports
• Basis & Administrative tasks
• VIM component Add-on
• ICC Component Administration
• Archive link configuration
• Background job scheduling
• SAP workflow basics
• Overview of VIM workflows