Basware Purchase-to-Pay 18.12 New Features


Contents

1 Introduction

This document contains descriptions of new features in Basware Purchase-to-Pay 18.12 and its maintenance releases.

2 Procurement

2.1 Email purchase order line data and address editing and supplier and buyer changes in Edge

Module(s): Purchase
Feature ID: ALUSTA-43144
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

Now it is possible to edit the most important fields of the email purchase order and update the changes to the supplier.

2.2 XML purchase order counteroffering in Edge

Module(s): Purchase
Feature ID: ALUSTA-34142
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

Now the user can make a counteroffer to an XML order that a supplier has changed. The user can edit the order and then request changes.

2.3 XML purchase orders: Accepting supplier changes in Edge

Module(s): Purchase
Feature ID: ALUSTA-45160
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

The user can now accept the changes that the supplier has made to an XML order.

2.4 Selection of using Edge or WP configuration in validation point

Module(s): Purchase
Feature ID: ALUSTA-42063
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

Earlier, Workplace screen configuration was always used in the validation point also when using Edge. The UI followed Edge screen configuration, but the actual validation functionality followed Workplace screen configuration. Now purchase process can be configured so that it can be selected whether Edge or Workplace screen configuration is used in validation.

2.5 Professional user’s header level purchase requisition details view basic actions in Edge

Module(s): Purchase
Feature ID: ALUSTA-5713
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

With the first version of the Purchase Professional Tools module, we introduced a good visibility of purchase documents within the organization’s purchase process. A user with the professional buyer user rights can navigate to Purchase Professional Tools. On the tool, the user can use the basic search to find purchase documents, sort and filter the result set. The user can also drill down to a specific purchase document to view and edit header data, address data and purhcase order data of the document.

Also in Purchase Professional Tools module, the professional buyer can forward the purchase requisition to another user for approval, cancel the purchase requisition, return purchase requisition to owner and delete purchase requisition which have not sent to process. Professional buyer can forward the purchase requisition from the task panel of purchase requisition header details. The professional buyer can add comments to the forwarded purchase requisition. Canceling, deleting and returning purchase requisition actions are available in purchase requisition header view.

 

3 AP Automation

3.1 User role for Cancel and Resend for processed invoices

Module(s): Invoice Automation
Feature ID: ALUSTA-28081
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

Cancel and resend rights have been changed so that is not possible to cancel and resend processed invoices or invoices that are in the archiving process. This is to avoid invoices to be processed more than once.

3.2 Best-fit recognition methods for invoices with line details

Module(s): Match Orders
Feature ID: ALUSTA-21377
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Basware consultant work is needed before customer can take into use

Sometimes the line details in an e-invoice lack valuable information required by matching. Earlier, this prevented automatic matching even in situations where the invoice total was a perfect match with the purchase order total. Invoices like this ended up in manual matching. Now it is possible to set the invoice line details aside when they do not result in any associations, and continue matching with the best-fit recognition rules using invoice header details only. When an invoice is matched using the best-fit recognition rules, the original invoice lines remain in the system. Based on the initial information provided by the vendor, it is possible to explore if the automatic matching ratio can be increased by requesting adjustments to the invoice line details.

 

4 General

4.1 P2P language support - Portuguese (European)

Module(s): Invoice Automation
Feature ID: ALUSTA-44047
Release: P2P 18.12
Feature Implementation: Feature is in use automatically

The Portuguese (Portugal) language is now supported in Basware Purchase-to-Pay. A user can select Portuguese (Portugal) as the user interface language from User settings when the language Portuguese (Portugal) has been installed to the customer environment.