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Release Date |
November 4, 2024 |
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Support Period |
November 4, 2024 - November 4, 2026 |
HIGHLIGHTED ITEMS FOR THIS RELEASE
Simplified Configuration for Supply Chain Finance
With this release, the Taulia Add-on for SAP fully realizes the flexibility of Taulia Platform Payables by eliminating the need for any configuration in the Add-on for Supply Chain Finance.
With Taulia Platform Payables, there is now the possibility of storing the SAP supplier number of the funder as the payee ID in the collection accounts configured in the Taulia Platform. This eliminates the need to maintain the legacy Collection Accounts configuration (t-code: /TAULIA/CSCFCOLL) in the add-on. The legacy Collection Accounts configuration had the limitation that the bank ID was a key field and, therefore, had to be unique across multiple funders. There is no longer this limitation when the payee is maintained in the Taulia Platform collection accounts.
When an early payment request is submitted for an SCF program with a collection account with payee ID, the payee ID will be received in the Add-on via the Submit Early Payment process (EP_DO). If the simplified WC group configuration (SIMPLE_GROUP_ON) is activated in the Generic Taulia Switches (t-code: /TAULIA/GEN_SWITCHS) and the Taulia Platform instructs the payee ID in the early payment request, the legacy Collection Accounts configuration (t-code: /TAULIA/CSCFCOLL) is ignored. The payee ID instructed in the early payment request will, therefore, be used for early payment eligibility checks related to the payee and will be applied to the invoice during the document update.
The SCF Data Error Report (t-code: /TAULIA/ED_RECONCILE) has been adjusted to avoid using the legacy Collection Accounts configuration.
Contact your Taulia representative if you would like to take advantage of this feature and migrate to the Platform Payables configuration.
NEW FEATURE AND ENHANCEMENTS
The 5.2 release of the Taulia Add-On for SAP contains the following new features and enhanced functionality:
Working Capital Management
Improvements to Compliance Credit Notes for Dynamic Discounting
For invoices posted in a document currency other than the local currency of the company code, any DD early payment request that results in a compliance credit note should have the PDF printed in both the document currency and the local currency. To facilitate this, the Invoice Send process (INV_OUT) has been enhanced to include the local currency and the related exchange rate in the data transmission to the Taulia Platform. Logic has also been included to handle indirect exchange rates properly. This improvement is available for Taulia Direct integrations but not yet available for POD.
Expanded Data for Receivables Financing
To achieve customer-specific needs to control the eligibility of individual invoices for receivables financing in the Taulia Platform, a new structure has been defined (CT_INV_WC_DISABLE) in the Receivables Invoice Send process (SEND_INVAR) to allow for custom logic to disable eligibility as well as to provide a reason for the disablement. The disablement of receivables financing eligibility via this structure can only be implemented via user exit (AR01). This new structure is available for both POD and Taulia Direct integrations.
The following additional data fields can now be received from the Taulia Platform in the Submit Early Payment process (EP_DO) for AR financing:
These fields are not used in the document update but can be leveraged in custom logic to achieve customer-specific needs.
Expanded Data for Supply Chain Finance
The Payables Invoice Send process (INV_OUT) has been enhanced with new fields for payee ID and bank ID. The contents of these fields will automatically be sent to the Taulia Platform when a payee and partner bank type are denoted on the vendor item of the invoice. For SCF programs, this information serves to confirm to Taulia's Technical Services and Financial Operations teams that the funder and collection account were applied correctly. This enhancement applies to both POD and Taulia Direct integrations.
In conjunction with this enhancement, the custom field value that was previously communicated to the Taulia Platform to acknowledge successful payee updates for Paying Agent programs has been rendered redundant and is removed.
Similarly, the Payables Payment Details process (PAYMENT) has been enhanced with new fields for payee ID and bank ID. The contents of these fields will automatically be sent to the Taulia Platform when a payment is issued to an alternative payee. This information informs Taulia's payment processing applications of the true payment recipient, which is especially useful for SCF programs. This enhancement applies to both POD and Taulia Direct integrations.
Improved Early Payment Cancellation Handling
The handling of rejected early payment cancellation requests has been improved for Taulia Direct integrations. Now, the Add-on sends the reason for the rejection via the Receive EP Cancel process (RECV_EPCAN) to assist Taulia's Technical Services and Financial Operations teams with troubleshooting.
Enhanced Tax Qualifier Data
An improvement has been made to map the appropriate tax qualifier sent to the Taulia Platform during the Payables Invoice Send (INV_OUT) process. Now, the appropriate tax qualifiers of VAT, GST, or SALES will be used depending on the tax types of the company code country. This change improves the supplier user experience since the tax qualifier is displayed to suppliers in the Taulia Platform when viewing their invoice details.
Improved Logging for Legacy Supply Chain Finance Configuration
An improvement has been made to logging in to the Submit Early Payment process (EP_DO) when an early payment request is received for SCF, but the supplier is not appropriately assigned to an active SCF group. A message will now be logged to indicate the faulty configuration. This is applicable when legacy working capital group configuration is active in the Add-on.
Invoice Automation
Improved Mapping for Partner Solutions
The ability to pass the Taulia Platform invoice ID to partner workflow solutions (OpenText VIM, Kofax & Serrala) has been added during the Invoice Submission process (INV_IN). This value can optionally be mapped to fields within the partner workflow solution tables based on customer requirements via the user exit to submit an invoice after the call to the respective partner solution (RS02, DL02 or VM02).
General Taulia Functionality
Enhanced Support for SAP Business Network Integrations
To create a link to the SAP Business Network invoice for our SBN integrated customers, we have added a new field for mapping the SBN external partner ID to the Taulia invoice structure. The external partner ID is leveraged when Taulia sends remittance details to the SBN. This field has a maximum length of 200 characters and may be populated as needed via user exit (CT02). This new field is available for both POD and Taulia Direct integrations.
Improved Handling of Receivables Documents Configured for Payables
Receivables documents configured for transfer to the Taulia Platform as payables documents (t-code: /TAULIA/CINVD) will now be automatically retransferred when they are internally cleared. This will allow such documents to have their status correctly displayed as CLEARED in the Taulia Platform.
Receivables documents configured for transfer as payables documents were triggering an unnecessary warning message to be raised during the Invoice Send (INV_OUT) process in the Taulia Connection Monitor (t-code: /TAULIA/CONNECTOR). This message will no longer be raised.
Taulia Direct Updates
The Taulia Direct processes, which send data to the Taulia Platform, have been enhanced to minimize data loss and ensure logging accuracy. In the past, these processes were considered successful when the Taulia Platform returns an HTTP 200 response. Now, these processes will only consider the data receipt acknowledged and log a success message when the Taulia Platform returns an HTTP 200 response, a positive success flag as well as a ticket ID.
Many of the technical messages captured in Taulia Direct processes have had their log level reduced to prevent logging with the default log level. This will help minimize noise and reduce the volume of logs captured in the Taulia Connection Monitor (t-code: /TAULIA/CONNECTOR). These technical messages will still be captured if the application log level is adjusted to capture more granular messages.
Improvements for Supplier Information Management
An authorization check has been added when supplier contact changes are processed in the Vendor Master Cockpit (t-code: /TAULIA/MASTER). If the user does not have access to the transaction used to process the change, a message will be displayed, and the change will not proceed.
Improved Logging for Retransfer Request
Logging for the Taulia Platform-Initiated Retransfer Request process (RECV_RETR) has been improved to capture the details of the retransferred objects in the Display Documents tool within the Connection Monitor (t-code: /TAULIA/CONNECTOR). This change also enables the objects captured in this process to be filtered in the selection screen search criteria.
Predefined Variants for Taulia Programs
Variants for the selection criteria recommended for running certain programs are now included in the standard delivery. Previously, these variants had to be set up during each implementation, making them prone to misprint or omission. Variants are now predefined with the recommended selection criteria for the following programs:
Enhanced Data Clean-up Program
The data clean-up program (/TAULIA/CT_POD_CLEANUP_LOGS) has been enhanced to allow the deletion of messages and conversations related to the Taulia Message Board. The selection screen of the program now has a section where the user can specify an expiration date for messages and conversations. Old records are removed from the following tables prior to the specified date:
FIXED ISSUES
The 5.2 release of the Taulia Add-on for SAP contains the following fixed issues:
Working Capital Management
Fixes for Refactored Compliance Credit Notes for Dynamic Discounting
Fixed an issue where credit note posting failed for early payment requests with differing tax exchange rates. When generating Early Payment credit notes, the system now properly supports invoices with different exchange rates for tax lines and other posting lines. Updates were made to utilize the invoice’s tax exchange rate during credit note posting to avoid mismatched amounts, improving consistency in tax line calculations.
A new warning message is added to alert users if there is no credit note when there is customization in the user exit Post Credit Note from Platform (DD31).
Early Payment Request Fix
An issue was discovered with the validation, which checks that the requested invoice is not locked in a payment proposal during the Submit Early Payment process (EP_DO). The validation looked at payment proposals from prior years and incorrectly rejected the early payment request. This has now been resolved.
Early Payment Cancellation Fix
Fixed an issue that was causing the payment term on an invoice to be blanked out during the cancellation of an SCF early payment.
Invoice Automation
Incorrect Unit of Measure Conversion for Serrala Invoicing
Resolved a missing unit of measure conversion from ISO units to SAP units on invoices submitted to the Serrala partner workflow solution. This was causing an exception to be raised for the PO unit of measure mismatch and preventing invoices from auto-posting.
Problematic Status Management in Invoice Submission User Exit
Fixed an issue with the Taulia user exit called during payables invoice submission (CT01). Now, when an incoming invoice has its status set to INCOMPLETE via the user exit, there will be an error message logged in the Incoming Invoice (INV_IN) process in the Taulia Connection Monitor (t-code: /TAULIA/CONNECTOR) and the invoice in the Taulia Platform will have its status updated correctly.
General Taulia Functionality
Fixes to Compliance Credit Notes for Dynamic Discounting
Fixed a bug in the logic that occurs during creating a compliance credit note to capture the discount for Dynamic Discounting. When the setting for posting type in DD Credit Note Posting Settings (t-code: /TAULIA/CNPOST) is set to Derive from Invoice and the account derived from the invoice cannot be directly posted to, the Cash Discount Account will be used instead. Previously, the Profit or Cost Center associated with the original invoice line was still being applied to the corresponding line of the credit note, which was not correct. Now, the controlling objects will be derived based on the standard SAP configuration for the Cash Discount Account.
Accelerated Integration Fix
Fixed an issue for Accelerated Integration which was causing queue feeder processes to be cancelled in the rare event that multiple entries for the same object exist in the Taulia queue table.
GOS Fix Fixed an issue with the GOS Show Messages feature, which resulted in short dumps when there were too many messages related to a particular object.
Supplier Information Management Fixes
Fixed an issue that was causing supplier fax numbers to be deleted from the supplier master record when a fax number change was submitted from the Taulia Platform and approved in the SIM Supplier Address Changes Fiori App. This issue was not problematic for fax number changes approved in the Vendor Master Cockpit (t-code: /TAULIA/MASTER).
Addressed a problem where the changed object was not recorded correctly in the SAP Change Document Items table (CDPOS) when supplier bank changes were processed in the Vendor Master Cockpit. This did not impact Taulia functionality but did impact downstream handling with third-party audit software.
Performance Issue on Invoice Selection
Made a performance improvement on the logic that determines whether a document is an invoice or a payment during the Payables Invoice Send process (INV_OUT). Slow performance of this logic was causing short dumps in certain cases where a clearing document had cleared many documents.
Communication Errors Due to Free Text
Fixed a very specific issue which was causing text fields starting with a colon and also containing a quote followed by a colon to be generated with an invalid JSON payload, resulting in the inability to be transmitted to the Taulia Platform.
Communication Errors Due to Prohibited Characters
For invoices created in partner workflow solutions (OpenText VIM, Kofax, and Serrala), certain characters that are prohibited by the Taulia Platform are now filtered out of free text fields during the Invoice Send process (INV_OUT). Previously, a similar fix was introduced for POs and invoices created directly in SAP FI.
Missing German Language Translations
Added some missing text translations within the Taulia Mass Re-transfer tool (t-code: /TAULIA/TRANSFER) and the legacy Taulia Add-On Version Number Display (t-code: /TAULIA/VER), which were causing missing functionality for users logging into SAP with the German language.
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Define what each PO status mean in the portal.
If you have more than one customer using the Taulia Portal and you need access to two or more accounts with the same login, you can combine your customers to one login.
Use Cash Planner to get paid early on your approved invoices.
You can manage your account users in the portal and provide different levels of access.
Use the email notification settings feature to manage your email notifications.
Managing your company tax ID numbers through the platform.
