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Biller DirectStreamline Cash Processing andEnhance the Customer Experience
Mike Martin
Monsanto
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What We’ll Cover …
• Business drivers behind Monsanto’s implementation
• Our implementation timeline• Review standard and customization options available through
Biller Direct
• Identifying business requirements
• Understanding application challenges
• Key learnings
• Demo
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Business Drivers
• Increase customer satisfaction
Access to financial status Online delivery of Invoices, Reports and Statements
Customer expectations
• Inefficient order-to-cash process
Payment processing efficiencies
Large volume of paper invoices and statements
Cost of invoicing and reconciliation
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Significant online application use by our customers• Customers expect online payment capability
• Global solution
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Return on Investment
• Reduce order-to-cash cycle time
Access to invoices Next day access following order fulfillment
Increase working capital
Opportunity to reduce delay in cash receipts up to five days
• Cost savings
Lockbox cost reductions
Limits staff requirements
Online payments significantly limit exception processing Print and mailing opportunities
Enables online-only receipt of documents and reports
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Timeline – Biller Direct
• 2012 rollout to 12 businesses integrated to SAP ERP Central
Component
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2007 2008 2009
MAR OCT MAY OCT JAN MAR
Development to
Pilot LaunchPhase 2 to
Company-wide
launch
French language for
Canada
SAP ECC 6.0
Upgrade
Canadalaunch
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Standard Biller Direct Functionality
• Open bills
Display/download Pay (partial or full)
Clear credits/debits
• Paid bills
Display/download
In process
Processed
30 days/12 months/5 years/ Unlimited ( Response time impact)
Cancel Payment
View bills associated with payment
• Create Payment Advice/Display Payment Advice
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Standard Biller Direct Functionality (cont.)
• Balances and line items
Download Monthly balances (Debit/Credit/Balance/Sales)
• Administrative data
Update address
Create/Change/Delete Bank Details
Change/Withdraw direct debit authorization
Notification preferences (Email/SMS)
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Switch account Multiple SAP payer accounts can be assigned to single user id
• FAQ
• Logoff
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Our Must-Haves for the Design
• Open Items-Payment (standard Biller Direct-Open Bills)
Filter document types Flag future due credits as “Non-Payable”
Add line item data
Delivery Number/Purchase Order Number/Child customer
name/Line item description (reason code)
• Prepayment-On Account Payment (custom screen)
Allows payments in excess of account balance
Payments not specific to an invoice
• Payment History (standard Biller Direct-Payment)
Limit increment of time available for visibility
30 Days/90 Days/1 Year/2 Years
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Our Must-Haves for the Design (cont.)
• Statements (custom screen)
Provide ability to receive electronic-only statements Statements archived and accessible for 12 months
Custom reports available through archive
• Bank Accounts (custom screen based on administrative data)
Limits ability to Add and Edit bank information only
• Switch Account (standard Biller Direct)
• Contact Us (custom screen)
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FAQ (standard Biller Direct)
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Application Challenges – Data Fields and Filters
• Functionality available to Add and Filter data
Addition of Delivery Number, Purchase & Order Number Filter Document type, Reason code, Down Payment requests
SubObjects selection flexibility
assignment field values or partner type
Delete cancelled prepayments from appearing on the open items
screen
Prevent selection of future dated credits
Display PDF icon for invoices ONLY if document exists in the
archiving system
Add additional fields to the open items and CSV
download file
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Open Items-Payment View
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Open Items-Payment View (cont.)
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Challenges – Prepayment-On Account
• Custom screen development using Web Dynpro
• Generate customer down payment request• Update Event log
• Modification to include down payment requests in payment
history and exclude from open bills
• Updates to payment proposal
• Parameter ID modification required for visibility on FBL5N
Prepayment utilizes Special GL
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Prepayment-On Account View
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Statements
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Implemented custom design using object type DRAW –SAP Document is not linked and requires further development
Define the object_id on the linkage table and require a means toextract the list of statements through the Web site
• Design can be utilized to store any ABAP, Smartform, or SAPScript generated report in the archive
• Provides customer the ability to elect Online only
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Statement Archive Design
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Customer Statement
is generated and
indicator set to
Send to Documentum
Document Received
by Documentum
using HTTP
Security Certificate
Processing
Statement
Converted to
OTF format sent
to archive by
FMs in
program
Documentum
Content
Repository
Security Certificate
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Statement View
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Bank Accounts
• Modification of screen utilizing standard RFC to update
Customer Master to eliminate the Delete function Function allows for edits but NOT deletions
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Switch Accounts
• Provides ability to have multiple accounts per User ID
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Modified to to arrange the object hierarchy• Implemented functionality to assign text/label to a SubObject
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Other Challenges
• Creating custom screens Web Dynpro Java development (SAP
NetWeaver ®
Development Infrastructure)• Implementing a foreign language
• Supporting SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 Upgrade
• No user exits to enhance Biller Direct Java Web application
Modification is the only option• Implementation of SAP Enterprise Portal
Single Sign-On (Portal to Biller Direct)
• Integration of custom functionality “Prepayment-On Account”
with standard Biller Direct
Example: Payment history, cancellation, payment proposal,
payment run, audit log, etc.
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User Management Engine configuration limits and flexibility
• Multiple accounts accessible through single User ID
• Establishing User Access utilizing Pooled reference user
fscm_refuser – authorization profiles for ECC access
objtype_0 – BUS3007 customer identifier
objkey_0 – company code + customer number
Standard row limitation of ten (four accounts)
Enhanced to 30 lines, see SAP Note 869852
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User Management Engine (cont.)
• Utilizing SubObjects enables filtering capability
SubObjects available for Branch accounts filtering Display Only due to conflict with Head Office
bank accounts
• Pooled reference user setup objtype ebpp_spart
objkey Company code + customer number +
“unique qualifier”
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Key Learnings
• Performance issues
Large volume of Open Items SAP claims resolution version 6.02 (Pagination)
Custom approach through use of Summary and Invoice
Query
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Key Learnings (cont.)
• Performance Issues (cont.)
Payment history screen for five years and unlimited selection Addressed through two-year limit
• Reversal issue
FBRA does not remove Payment Method at time of
reversal Capture by subsequent proposal will result in a double debit of
customer bank account
Created new transaction code for reversals that removes
payment method• Select all/deselect all
Not available through standard Open Bills (display view)
SAP modified standard Biller Direct screen
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Key Learnings (cont.)
• Payment Proposal Limitations
No error messages or flag Lock/posting failure
• SAP Notes
Correction for SubObject processing in R/3 4.6c
Apply SAP Note 1152361 User Management Engine limitation of 10 lines
Apply SAP Note 869852 to increase from 10 to 30 lines
SAP R/3 EBPP Log truncates the Portal User ID to 12 characters
SAP recognizes this issue but there are no plans yet for anupcoming release
JSP modification to handle CSV download delimiters (“,”instead of “;”) so properly formatted by Excel
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Key Learnings (cont.)
• Involve SAP before making changes
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Use SAP NetWeaver Development Infrastructure to deploy Biller Direct Web application modifications
• Roll out application in a pilot program to limited customers
• Perform thorough testing
• Reconciliation report Payment proposal, payment run, and 820 confirmation
• Call center
SubObjects are not supported
• Knowledge Management (Portal)
On-the-fly updates for Pure HTML pages
Home, FAQ, and Outages
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Resources
• SAP Guides
Configuration Guide Modification Guide
Security Guide
Installation Guide
http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_04/helpdata/en/43/72fc28e1356fcae10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
• SAP Financials Expert – April 2007, Volume 6/Number 4
• SAP Building Blocks (W22: FSCM Biller Direct)
http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/600/BBlibrary_start.htm
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Key Points
• Understand the full extent of your business user requirements
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Engage companies that have implemented Biller Direct SAP User Groups/SAP Financial Customer Value Network
• Identify pilot group of customers to test and for initial launch
• Develop with business growth in mind and utilize tables and avoid
hard coding• Prototype out-of-the-box solution and compare with requirements
• Build appropriate back-end monitoring
• Establish clear expectations with your financial institution for
ACH debit requests and confirmations
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