“The process and implementation was a huge success.”
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RCL Foods
“What makes BEST different to other suppliers? BEST actually works. After implementation, there have been cost and time savings.”
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ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI
“BEST is different to other suppliers given their efficiency. Auditors had direct access to BEST for reviews. The reconciliation process has improved as AP is no longer doing manual reconciliations. BEST reports are accurate, efficient with time savings being achieved.”
VODAFONE
“Big time saving achieved with large recons (+/- 7000 lines). Anyone can use it for any amount of lines, for any statement as rules and processes are standardized. Support was excellent and available when required.”
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PPC CEMENT
“BEST is a world apart from other suppliers.”
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MONDI
“BEST has carried out the project in a very professional manner. The BEST staff is very knowledgeable of not only their own product but SAP as a whole. The BEST staff is always available for assistance and able to attend to any query at any time.”
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AFRISAM
“BEST support, service and product rated
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JOHANNESBURG WATER
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“Good project and implementation, good support from BEST staff. From start to end project run very professionally. BEST has also assisted us with streamlining our AP supplier recon process where we now process majority of recons centrally as opposed to previously processing recons at each site.”
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CONSOL
“The way the project was managed, the planning, scheduling and controlling of activities; identifying needs/issues, integrating and orchestrating the resources (people, material, information, time) and the level of technical and professional knowledge of skills to support the process was the ‘best’ we have experienced.”
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Why BEST is BESTMFBSAdmin2020-07-29T10:11:20+00:00
Why BEST is Best
The BEST team has been providing reconciliation solutions to the SAP community since 2009. Our team is devoted to implementing, supporting and continually improving the BEST product.
We have a proven track record of successful implementations and benefit realisation by our clients across multiple industries and on a global level.
BEST has the most extensive number of SAP reference sites that use BEST to automate their supplier statement reconciliations directly in SAP. All of these sites can attest that BEST has been instrumental in transforming their creditor function and that the product, implementation and support is of the highest quality. Read about the Benefits of BEST.
BEST is built in SAP using SAP’s ABAP programming language and is certified by SAP Germany which means it is of a quality expected by the SAP Certification Centre and it works well with the rest of SAP. You can rely on its trusted and proven performance.
Simply install the BEST add-on module and the BEST transactions for processing supplier reconciliations will become available in your existing SAP menu. You do not need anything else, except your existing SAP log-on!
You have already invested in SAP, and continue to do so. Maximise this investment. Don’t spend extra money, and create extra risk by investing in other systems:
Avoid Risky & Costly Interfaces
If you reconcile outside of SAP, such as in a third party supplier reconciliation product, any changes to vendor masters in SAP need to be duplicated in the other system. Hundreds of thousands of invoices and other vendor transactions need to be duplicated in the other system. Interfaces need to be continually maintained by IT personnel, and fail at odd times for a variety of reasons. Interface errors lead to incorrect results.
Match further up the procurement chain, so not just to creditor documents, but also to parked or held documents, and to the GR/IR accounts (goods receipt without invoice receipt) and down payments, etc.
If you use an invoice automation or VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) product such as eFlow, ReadSoft or Open Text, for example – BEST can match to this. If invoices are still in process within VIM, BEST can match the supplier statement to these invoices. For example, you could obtain a list across all suppliers of statement invoices still in VIM, and you can categorize such matches differently on your recon report.
All original statement documents, whatever the format, can be stored in SAP using the SAP Content Server. If the statement was emailed, this original file can be saved in SAP, else it could be the scanned image of a paper statement. This is very important as it allows the original statement to be viewed from SAP, by reconciliation approvers, auditors, managers etc. It means that the original statements do not need to be filed manually, and helps to take your AP function paperless.
If you wish to control the payment, you can set the system only to pay invoices matched to the statement. Also, if you wish to balance the reconciliation to the payment, or to send the payment remittance advice to the supplier with the reconciliation.
Standard SAP creditor line item reporting now also reports supplier statement information.
Drill-down directly from BEST supplier statement screens to standard SAP transactions.
Supplier statement reconciliation reporting always reflects the most current standard SAP situation, rather than having to wait for interfaces to run.
Reporting supplier reconciliations can also include other SAP data, such as user information, company code information, payment information, purchasing information etc. It’s all in one system!
Same hardware and SAP software. You don’t need new machines or upgrades.
Users do not need to login to different systems, it’s all in SAP.
Same SAP authorisations mechanism.
Secure data. As BEST is not duplicating your data outside of SAP, all data stays secure inside SAP.
Same SAP transport and control procedures.
Same SAP support staff.
Superior Matching
BEST will achieve the highest rates of automatic matching due to matching further up the procurement chain in SAP as well as to VIM.
BEST has dozens of matching types and will match not only on invoice number but also to PO number, delivery note number, SAP financial document numbers, assignment allocation numbers, item text, cheque numbers, reference keys, etc.
Where no automatic match can be performed with certainty, BEST will suggest matches such as on similar values.
BEST applies search-engine type matching algorithms to cater for:
Spaces or leading zeroes.
Special characters such as slashes, dots etc.
Considering alphabetical or only numerical characters.
Considering certain strings, prefixes or suffixes.
Reconciliation Balancing
You can balance the reconciliation to the proposed future payment, meaning that the system can determine future possible payments for each supplier. As BEST does not calculate the payment but rather balances to the actual SAP payment (or payment proposal), BEST is completely accurate. It means that you can use the supplier reconciliation to validate the payment to ensure accuracy.
If you wish, payment terms can use the statement date as the baseline date.
Reconciliation Issue
BEST can send the supplier reconciliation to the supplier, presenting the supplier with a reconciliation of their account and unreconciled invoices and credits to action.
Online Approval & Audit Trail
Supplier reconciliations are approved in SAP. No printing and filing required.
There is a SAP system audit trail of reconciliation approvals (and rejections) by user, date, time and with comments.
On final approval, a snapshot of the reconciliation is taken to allow for future review and audit.
Reconcile at Various Levels
You can perform reconciliations at a company code level, or for many company codes, or at a lower level such as business area, house bank, region etc.
Load Various Statements Formats
Excel uploads
Electronic/EDI statement files.
Fast “copy and capture” facility for small paper or PDF statements.
BEST has standard connectors to interface to your chosen OCR tool or we can provide our own Statement Reader tool for automated PDF statement load.
All original statement documents, whatever the format, can be stored in SAP using the SAP Content Server.
Process Internal statements
If you have internal statements between internal customers and suppliers on your SAP system, these can be automatically processed all within SAP.
Why BEST is Best
The BEST team has been providing reconciliation solutions to the SAP community since 2009. Our team is devoted to implementing, supporting and continually improving the BEST product.
We have a proven track record of successful implementations and benefit realisation by our clients across multiple industries and on a global level.
BEST has the most extensive number of SAP reference sites that use BEST to automate their supplier statement reconciliations directly in SAP. All of these sites can attest that BEST has been instrumental in transforming their creditor function and that the product, implementation and support is of the highest quality. Read about the Benefits of BEST.
BEST is built in SAP using SAP’s ABAP programming language and is certified by SAP Germany which means it is of a quality expected by the SAP Certification Centre and it works well with the rest of SAP. You can rely on its trusted and proven performance.
Simply install the BEST add-on module and the BEST transactions for processing supplier reconciliations will become available in your existing SAP menu. You do not need anything else, except your existing SAP log-on!
You have already invested in SAP, and continue to do so. Maximise this investment. Don’t spend extra money, and create extra risk by investing in other systems:
Avoid Risky & Costly Interfaces
If you reconcile outside of SAP, such as in a third party supplier reconciliation product, any changes to vendor masters in SAP need to be duplicated in the other system. Hundreds of thousands of invoices and other vendor transactions need to be duplicated in the other system. Interfaces need to be continually maintained by IT personnel, and fail at odd times for a variety of reasons. Interface errors lead to incorrect results.
Match further up the procurement chain, so not just to creditor documents, but also to parked or held documents, and to the GR/IR accounts (goods receipt without invoice receipt) and down payments, etc.
If you use an invoice automation or VIM (Vendor Invoice Management) product such as eFlow, ReadSoft or Open Text, for example – BEST can match to this. If invoices are still in process within VIM, BEST can match the supplier statement to these invoices. For example, you could obtain a list across all suppliers of statement invoices still in VIM, and you can categorize such matches differently on your recon report.
All original statement documents, whatever the format, can be stored in SAP using the SAP Content Server. If the statement was emailed, this original file can be saved in SAP, else it could be the scanned image of a paper statement. This is very important as it allows the original statement to be viewed from SAP, by reconciliation approvers, auditors, managers etc. It means that the original statements do not need to be filed manually, and helps to take your AP function paperless.
If you wish to control the payment, you can set the system only to pay invoices matched to the statement. Also, if you wish to balance the reconciliation to the payment, or to send the payment remittance advice to the supplier with the reconciliation.
Standard SAP creditor line item reporting now also reports supplier statement information.
Drill-down directly from BEST supplier statement screens to standard SAP transactions.
Supplier statement reconciliation reporting always reflects the most current standard SAP situation, rather than having to wait for interfaces to run.
Reporting supplier reconciliations can also include other SAP data, such as user information, company code information, payment information, purchasing information etc. It’s all in one system!
Same hardware and SAP software. You don’t need new machines or upgrades.
Users do not need to login to different systems, it’s all in SAP.
Same SAP authorisations mechanism.
Secure data. As BEST is not duplicating your data outside of SAP, all data stays secure inside SAP.
Same SAP transport and control procedures.
Same SAP support staff.
Superior Matching
BEST will achieve the highest rates of automatic matching due to matching further up the procurement chain in SAP as well as to VIM.
BEST has dozens of matching types and will match not only on invoice number but also to PO number, delivery note number, SAP financial document numbers, assignment allocation numbers, item text, cheque numbers, reference keys, etc.
Where no automatic match can be performed with certainty, BEST will suggest matches such as on similar values.
BEST applies search-engine type matching algorithms to cater for:
Spaces or leading zeroes.
Special characters such as slashes, dots etc.
Considering alphabetical or only numerical characters.
Considering certain strings, prefixes or suffixes.
Reconciliation Balancing
You can balance the reconciliation to the proposed future payment, meaning that the system can determine future possible payments for each supplier. As BEST does not calculate the payment but rather balances to the actual SAP payment (or payment proposal), BEST is completely accurate. It means that you can use the supplier reconciliation to validate the payment to ensure accuracy.
If you wish, payment terms can use the statement date as the baseline date.
Reconciliation Issue
BEST can send the supplier reconciliation to the supplier, presenting the supplier with a reconciliation of their account and unreconciled invoices and credits to action.
Online Approval & Audit Trail
Supplier reconciliations are approved in SAP. No printing and filing required.
There is a SAP system audit trail of reconciliation approvals (and rejections) by user, date, time and with comments.
On final approval, a snapshot of the reconciliation is taken to allow for future review and audit.
Reconcile at Various Levels
You can perform reconciliations at a company code level, or for many company codes, or at a lower level such as business area, house bank, region etc.
Load Various Statements Formats
Excel uploads
Electronic/EDI statement files.
Fast “copy and capture” facility for small paper or PDF statements.
BEST has standard connectors to interface to your chosen OCR tool or we can provide our own Statement Reader tool for automated PDF statement load.
All original statement documents, whatever the format, can be stored in SAP using the SAP Content Server.
Process Internal statements
If you have internal statements between internal customers and suppliers on your SAP system, these can be automatically processed all within SAP.
CUT THE SPEND ON SUPPLIER RECONS BY 90%. THAT’S WHAT WE CROPPED AT AFGRI.
NOW, WHAT CAN BEST DO FOR YOU?
AFGRI presents their BEST implementation experience at SAPHILA 2014.