Financial Management

• Strict Dual Control
  The Strict Dual Control functionality is now available for all manual postings in General Ledger and Manual Tax Entries. It ensures, that a user who created or edited a manual posting can only Save it but not Post it. The Post action must be executed by a second user (Blog).
• Approval of Payment Reversal
  An approval process is now available for the reversal of approved payments. In case such an approved payment is reversed an approval task gets generated (Blog).
• Sales Kits – Profitability Analysis
  The profitability analysis enables users to view the profitability on sales kit header and sales kit item, also for sales kit returns in case the sales kit items are returned to stock (Blog).
• Mandatory fields in virtual data sources
  When using OData services and ODP for the extraction of accounting data, correct and consistent results depend on the right selection of certain parameters as for example the combination of company and set of books. Therefore it is now possible for certain data sources the check of mandatory fields can be switched on (Blog).

In total customer improvement requests with 91 votes were delivered for the Financial Management area in 2005 and fordetailed information about What’s New in the Financial Management area, please click here.

Human Resources

• Time Administration – Approvals
  Administrators are now ableto edit a time recording (like assign a premium pay) and then submit the time recording for approval to the project manager or line manager.
• Analytics – Employee Changes for Payroll
  Every payroll period, Administrators need to submit employee changes relevant for payroll to their payroll consultant, to upload into the payroll system. The Internal Employee Changes report displays a change history for Personal Data, Work Agreement changes, Private Address, Payment Information (Blog).

In total customer improvement requests with 15 votes were delivered for the Human Resources area in 2005 and for detailed information about What’s New in the Human Resources area, please click here.

• Exclude Logistics Area from Planning
  Warehouse managers are now able to exclude certain logistics areas from planning and ATP check for example in cases of spare parts dedicated to the repair department or for products with demo purpose (Blog).
• Pegged Supply UI Enhancements
  Planners are now able to efficiently monitor the component availability in their production plan and to easily adjust the plan in case of late supply. (Blog).
• Service Order Pre-Delivery from 3PL-Site
  It is now possible to pre-deliver spare parts from a warehouse operated by a third-party logistics provider (3PL) (Blog).
• New Reports for Supply Chain Management
  • Customer Demand Details Report (Blog).
  • Physical Inventory Report (Blog).

In total customer improvement requests with 325 votes were delivered for the Supply Chain Management area in 2005 and for detailed information about What’s New in the Supply Chain Management area, please click here.