Procure To Pay
Procure To Pay
Procure To Pay
Procure to pay is the process of obtaining and managing the raw materials needed for
manufacturing a product or providing a service. It involves the transactional flow of data that is
sent to a supplier as well as the data that surrounds the fulfillment of the actual order and
payment for the product or service.
Procure to Pay Business Process Steps
1. Create Purchase Requisition - ME51 (Fields: Material/Plant/Quantity/Storage Location)
2. Create Purchase Order - ME21N. (Purchasing org/ Purchasing group/ Company Code/
Payment Terms/ Vendor/ Currency /Material/ Quantity/ Plant/ Inco terms/ Net Price/ Tax code/
Storage Location)
3. Goods receipt Purchase order MIGO (Enter PO No:/ Goods receipt Purchase order - screen
will display/save/ Material document posted will display)
4. Enter Invoice MIRO (Company Code/ Invoice date/ Reference-PO/ Amount/ Baseline Dt.)
5. Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS) with Logistics Invoice Verification MRRL (Company
code/ Plant/ Goods receipt document/ Fiscal year, goods receipt/Vendor/ Purchasing Document)
6. Automatic Clearing without Definition of Clearing Currency F.13 (Company code/ Fiscal
year/ Document number/ Posting date/ Check Select vendors)
7. Automatic Clearing with Definition of Clearing Currency - F13E (same as above)
8. Clear G/L Account F-03 (Account/ Company code/ Currency/ Select the required documententer Pstky, Account, Amount, Profit center)
9. Automatic Payment - F110 (parameter tab - Posting date/ Document date/ Company code/
Payment method/ next payment date/ Vendor)
Identify opportunities for savings and efficiently manage the contract lifecycle
Tightly integrate sourcing and contract management processes
Develop a standardized contract-authoring process that meets your companys needs
Operational Procurement
Accelerate and automate your procurement processes, proactively ensure compliance, and find
new ways to cut costs.
Improve insight into spending performance and identify opportunities for savings
Streamline your spend analysis, source-to-contract, and procure-to-pay processes
Gain 360 degree visibility into supplier relationships, performance, and risks
Access to maintain credit notes, invoices, credit memos, & recurring payments
Exchange rate table, rounding units, foreign currency ratios
The Goods receipt/Invoice receipt (GR/IR) account
Vendor pricing information and more.
Processing Disbursements
Controls and testing procedures to ensure that disbursements are made for goods/ services
received, accurately calculated, recorded in SAP R/3, and distributed to the appropriate suppliers:
Everything has been conveniently pre-documented with fill-in fields for company-specific
information (entity name, date, data extracted from the system, etc.) which will allow you to
proceed with your assessment immediately.
The Procure to Pay sub-processes covering Fixed Asset setup, capitalization and administration
are not included in this process view.
Assumption for an effective P2P process:
The P2P process assumes that the following SAP modules are in place:
FI, AM, MM, PM (optionally for equipment master records).
The described Invoice Processing is designed as an SAP Business Workflow/SAP Webflow
process including Optical Archiving for all incoming documents. Therefore a scanning and
optical archiving infrastructure needs to be in place to support the workflow functionality. The
optical archive storage system needs to fulfill legal and tax requirements to enable the storage of
'original
documents'.
Accounts payable /P2P Process interfaces at SAP's SSC
It is interesting to see how different companies approach their AP process. The most common is a
partially decentralized processing of AP, as it has developed over time. This works as follows:
companies keep invoices at the local subsidiaries and only the financial data get passed over to
the SSC for processing. In order to minimize the administrative effort of transferring paper
invoices into electronic formats, more advanced companies have centralized the AP processing
completely. In this case invoices are sent to the SSC.
Below there is an example of the typical process cut for the AP/P2P process, with the SSC
Interfaces for the SAP SSC:
As a prerequisite, a purchase order needs to be issued before actual purchases are made. This
system entry allows an easier tracking of incoming invoices and allows an efficient approval
process. When goods arrive, a receiving clerk begins the process of quality and quantity check to
assure that the goods delivered match the items and quantities on the invoice. The invoice is
scanned to be available electronically in the system.