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ELECTRONIC INVOICINGWITH mySAP™ ERP

Make Collaborative E-Commerce a Reality

Processing invoices involves numerous steps for your customers

and for you. Your company must print and mail the invoices,

and your customers must manually enter the data in their

accounts payable system, verify the invoices, and then make pay-

ments. The total cost of this process may be more than you

think. Mailing an invoice can cost you up to US$15. And for your

customers, invoice processing can be even more expensive.

Electronic invoicing is designed to eliminate the inefficiencies of

packaging and mailing paper invoices to customers. In addition,

it supplements your collaborative business and electronicpayment strategies.

With SAP® Biller Direct you can eliminate many manual proces-

ses and cut your invoicing costs by up to 70%. SAP Biller Direct

is a key part of your SAP Financial Supply Chain Management

deployment strategy.

Handle All Your Bill Presentment and

Payment Processes

Today’s electronic bill presentment and payment applications

show only invoice data to customers. However, that’s just one

part of the billing process. With SAP Biller Direct, invoice

recipients can view account balances, examine unpaid invoices,

monitor credits, and apply credit to pay off open receivables.

In addition, customers can manage account information, such

as addresses or bank accounts, without having to burden your

accounts receivable department. This service works securely

and is approved via the internal service request functionality of

all SAP solutions. SAP Biller Direct is a complete communication

and transactional application that enables you to deliver higher

quality invoicing and settlement services to your customers.

Invoice delivery, payment,

and settlement processes are

costly to most businesses,

consuming employee produc-

tivity and tying up large

amounts of working capital.

In addition, most companies

do not maximize the benefits

of their customer or supplier

relationship management

efforts and fail to link finance

directly to sales, support,

marketing, or supply chain

processes. mySAP™ ERP deliv-

ers a complete e-invoicing

solution with the SAP® Biller

Direct application, which

enables customers and suppli-

ers to submit invoices, make

payments, manage accounts,

and settle and reconcile

transactions – via the Internet.

mySAP ERP Brief



SAP Biller Direct provides a complete e-invoicing solution. With

it, your customers can handle partial payments, open items, and

credits. More importantly, it gives them the ability to manage

their own accounts, view invoicing history, and execute payments

with either credit cards or direct debit. Additional functions

allow your customers to:

• Download bills in different formats

• Assign payments to open items

• View information on balances and items that remain open or

have been cleared, including balance confirmation via the Web

• Access information on payment advice notes

SAP Biller Direct is delivered with mySAP™ ERP. It works in con-

cert with all SAP industry solutions and has been engineered to

serve as the Web-based invoicing engine of SAP Financial Supply

Chain Management – a set of applications that address yourcash-to-cash cycle from invoicing, dispute management, collec-

tions, and credit management; to in-house banking, cash, and

treasury management.

SAP offers a unique advantage to customers. With a single set of

applications, you can manage the entire f inancial supply chain

without the need to develop custom applications or integrate

third-party software solutions. More importantly, your financial

supply chain can be completely integrated with financial report-

ing and in-house cash and treasury management processes to

improve your ability to manage working capital.

SAP Biller Direct is powered by the SAP NetWeaver™ platform,

providing a flexible Java front end as a presentation layer that

can be integrated easily into SAP Enterprise Portal or any existing

portal infrastructure using single-sign-on tickets. The customer

or bill recipient needs only a Web browser to use the wealth of

functionality provided by SAP Biller Direct. The biller, on the

other hand, doesn’t have to change existing business processes

and can use SAP Biller Direct as a powerful and stable Web front

end. Communication between the ABAP™ and Java worlds is

ensured by using the Java Connector middleware. SAP Biller

Direct is available today as part of mySAP ERP or it can be

implemented as an add-on to the last two releases of of SAP R/3®

software.

SAP Biller Direct supports both business-to-consumer and

business-to-business transactions and supplements your existingSAP accounts receivable solution. The application completes

your customer relationship management efforts by providing a

Web-based capability to handle invoicing, account inquiry, and

settlement processes. For many enterprises, these f inancial

processes are needed to “close the loop” in their online sales

and customer support strategies.



Improve the Performance of Accounts Payable

with SAP Biller Direct

Accounts payable departments in all industries are often

overburdened with vendor inquiries regarding payment status.

As a result, productivity is lost, workloads are taxed, and accounts

payable performance metrics can deteriorate. To achieve excel-

lence in the accounts payable area, many organizations are seek-

ing a Web-based solution to present payment status to their

suppliers and vendors.

Buy-Side E-Invoicing with SAP Biller Direct

SAP Biller Direct now offers support for buy-side e-invoicing.

This capability enables your suppliers to view accounts payable

information via the Web. It also allows your suppliers to perform

Web-based, self-service account inquires and examine payment

status. SAP offers a unique advantage to companies seeking a

buy-side e-invoicing solution because SAP Biller Direct is designed

as an integrated component of your accounts payable software

and supplier portals.

As shown in the figure below, SAP Biller Direct solves both sides

of the e-invoicing challenge. It can be applied to support buy-side

and sell-side e-invoicing and payment strategies.

Figure 2: Buy-Side and Sell-Side E-Invoicing with SAP Biller Direct

Buy-side e-invoicing with SAP Biller Direct frees your accountspayable department from having to manage supplier questions

about payment status, whether they come in by phone, e-mail,

or fax. With SAP Biller Direct, suppliers can view payment infor-

mation online, examine invoice and payment history, view

available supplier credits, and manage multiple accounts.

Buy-side e-invoicing with SAP Biller Direct can be deployed in

two ways. The first option is to implement it as a portal business

package, using iView software within SAP Enterprise Portal.

In this way, it can be integrated easily in the supplier portal or

added to any other SAP portal. The second option is to deploy

SAP Biller Direct as a stand-alone application on a J2EE basis,

which provides a Web-based HTMLB user interface. (HTMLB, a

Java tag library developed by SAP, allows you to create browser-

independent GUI elements.)

Figure 1: Customer Interface of SAP Biller Direct

Customers

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Suppliers

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Suppliers

Payments

Invoices

Payments

Invoices

ACCOUNTRECEIVABLE

ACCOUNTPAYABLE

SAP® BILLER DIRECT

YOUR ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SUPPLY CHAIN

SELL-SIDE BUY-SIDE



Powered by SAP NetWeaver

mySAP ERP is powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, the

open integration and application platform that enables change.

SAP NetWeaver helps companies align IT with their business. It

allows companies to obtain more business value from existing IT

investments and to deploy a services-oriented architecture. SAP

NetWeaver reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and complexi-

ty across the entire IT landscape.

SAP NetWeaver powers mySAP Business Suite, SAP xApps™

packaged composite applications, and partner solutions. It

provides the best way to integrate all systems running SAP or

non-SAP software. SAP NetWeaver unifies integration technol-

ogies into a single platform and is preintegrated with business

applications, reducing the need for custom integration.

Regardless of the implementation, your vendors do not need

to install any SAP software to use the buy-side e-invoicing capab-

ilities of SAP Biller Direct. All functions are accessible via a

standard Web browser and can be integrated into your existing

supplier portal.

Buy-side e-invoicing with SAP Biller Direct can dramatically

improve supplier relationships by providing a powerful,

information-rich, self-service tool for viewing payment and

invoice status. In addition, it can boost the productivity and

effectiveness of your accounts payable department by minimiz-

ing vendor inquires, allowing your resources to focus on strate-

gic tasks that drive greater value for your organization.

Discover Financial Supply Chain Management with

mySAP ERPSAP Biller Direct is part of SAP Financial Supply Chain Manage-

ment (SAP FSCM). As one of the new functional areas of

mySAP ERP, SAP FSCM optimizes the financial and information

flows within a company and among business partners. In addi-

tion to electronic invoicing and payment, SAP FSCM also

includes applications for collections management in SAP Collec-

tions Management, efficient resolution of payment deductions

in SAP Dispute Management, the automation of credit decisions

in SAP Credit Management, the management of liquidity posi-

tions in SAP Cash and Liquidity Management, the configuration

of payment factories in SAP In-House Cash, and the manage-

ment of f inancial positions and market risks in SAP Treasury

and Risk Management.

For more information about SAP Biller Direct, SAP FSCM, and

mySAP ERP, please contact your SAP representative today or visit

our Web site at www.sap.com/financials

www.sap.com/contactsap

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