Central Invoicing (41G)

Global Invoice Departments (for example, Shared Service Centers) are seeking unified visibility, control over the local purchasing processes across all the plants belonging to same or different company codes.

There is growing need to have central control over the invoice processes across the business units. Currently customers are challenged to control and optimize the invoices and payments processes across the organization which in turn directly improves profitability.

Analytics, such as spend visibility and automation of the invoicing processes across different plants, helps you to make informed decisions and simplify your business processes.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Create purchase order – in connected system
• Post goods receipt – in connected system
• Create supply invoice – in connected system
• Schedule import of supplier invoices - in Hub system
• Monitor supplier invoices centrally – in Hub system

Benefits

• Provide flexibility in connecting multiple systems to a single SAP S/4HANA system
• Perform invoice processes centrally
• Reduce TCO from company perspective
• Provide consolidated overview of the overall business

Additional Information

• This scope item requires an additional SAP S/4HANA Cloud license

Where is Central Invoicing(41G) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a management function of Invoice Management within Sourcing and Procurement Scope Item Group

Process flow of Central Invoicing (41G)

• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA On Premise *1
• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA Cloud *2
• Best Practices of SAP Analytics Cloud *2
• Best Practices of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) with SAP Leonardo *2

• RISE with SAP
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP on Azure
• Business Process Management