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Article Number: 000010715

HIGHLIGHTED ITEMS FOR THIS RELEASE

Refactored Compliance Credit Notes for Dynamic Discounting
With this release, we introduce our homogenized solution for jurisdictions that require a credit note to capture the discount for Dynamic Discounting. Now, the Taulia Platform can provide the credit note creation instructions in the early payment request, allowing the Add-on to leverage Platform intelligence to determine when to create a credit note without the need for a separate process to receive the credit note details.

Contact your Taulia representative if you are currently generating credit notes to capture the DD discount for certain jurisdictions and would like to migrate to this refactored solution.

New Configuration
Certain jurisdictions require that tax-exempt invoice items display a reason for the tax exemption. A new configuration for Tax Exempt Reason (t-code: TAUCIG_TAXEXEMPT) has been created to identify exempt tax codes within a region and their reason for exemption. The configured exempt reason will be transmitted to the Taulia Platform for any invoice line item with the specified tax code/company code country combination. The tax-exempt reason value will be transferred to any credit memo generated by the Taulia Platform to achieve tax compliance requirements for Dynamic Discounting.

A new configuration for DD Credit Note Posting Settings (t-code: TAUCIG_CNPOST) has been created to define the rules for posting the discount credit note. The settings can be maintained per company code or agnostic of company code and allow for the specification of document type and posting type to be used during document generation. The posting type drives the accounting logic that will be applied to the credit note with the following options:

• Cash Discount Account: Discount is posted to the standard account for cash discount received as configured in SAP Automatic Posting customizing (t-code: OBXU).
• Default GL/CO Object: Discount is posted to a specific GL account/controlling object. Additional fields for GL Account/Cost Center/Profit Center are available for entry when this posting type is selected.
• Derive from Invoice: Discount is distributed to the same account(s)/controlling elements of the original invoice. If the GL Account on the original invoice cannot be directly posted to, the Cash Discount Account will be used instead.

Payables Invoice Extract
Invoice line item tax amounts and rates are now calculated and sent to the Taulia Platform. These values are necessary to correctly capture the item tax data on the DD compliance credit note.

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. In order to facilitate this, the Payables Invoice integration process 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.

The early payment request will contain information about the compliance credit note, including the unique identifier of the document created in the Taulia Platform. The Taulia payables invoice outbound process is enhanced to capture this unique identifier when the credit note is transmitted back to the Taulia Platform so that the SAP document number may be linked with the Platform-generated document.

Early Payment Request
When the Taulia Platform solution for DD compliance credit note is activated, the Platform determines whether a credit note must be generated or an invoice adjustment must occur to capture the discount. This is based on the invoice's source of supply. When a credit note must be generated, the Platform will generate the data for the credit note and provide this data on the early payment request.

When the Taulia Platform solution for DD compliance credit note generation is activated, depending on the instructions received in the early payment request, either a credit note will be generated or an adjustment will be made to the original invoice cash discount amount field to capture the discount. However, with this solution, the cash discount percentage field can no longer be adjusted.

When the Taulia Platform instructs the Taulia Add-on for SAP Integration Suite, Managed Gateway to create a DD compliance credit note in the Taulia Early Payment Request (EP_DO) process, the original accelerated invoice will have its baseline date and payment terms details adjusted to ensure payment on the early payment date requested by the supplier but the discount amount/percent will not be captured on the original invoice. Instead, the Platform-generated credit note will be replicated in SAP to capture the discount. The amount for this credit note, as well as the reference number, will be provided by the Taulia Platform in the early payment request. The document type and GL accounts used for posting will be derived from the DD Credit Note Posting Settings (t-code: TAUCIG_CNPOST). As long as the GL account of the item is allowed for tax postings, the tax codes from the original accelerated invoice will be replicated onto the credit note, and the credit note amount will be distributed to these tax codes proportionate to their distribution on the original invoice. SAP calculates tax logic, which will always be used to calculate tax when posting credit notes.

NOTE: In order to calculate tax correctly, the Taulia integration user must NOT be set to the entry parameter “Calculate Taxes on Net Amount.” This can be adjusted for the Taulia integration user in the User Maintenance transaction (t-code: SU01) in the Parameters tab. If an entry exists for Parameter ID FO2, the entry should be removed.

The Business Add-In (BAdI) for working capital request (TAUCIG_WC_REQUEST) has been enhanced to allow customization of the credit note data before the credit note is created. This BAdI can now be implemented with the following new method:

• BEFORE_DD_CN_POST: To change parameters used for credit note creation for Dynamic Discounting

The DD compliance credit note will be linked to the accelerated invoice using the invoice reference field. This linking will result in the baseline date, payment terms and terms details of the invoice to be adopted by the credit note and ensure that the accelerated invoice and its discount credit note are netted together by the automatic payment program.

Relevant data will be captured from the platform-generated credit note for use in the document generation and logging in the Taulia register tables to ensure the Platform document and SAP document remain in sync.

The Taulia Platform unique identifier of the credit note will be captured in a new table (TAUCIG_DDCNGUID), which will be linked to the SAP document number of the credit note. This new table where the Platform unique identifier is stored is now considered by the data clean-up program (TAUCIG_CLEANUP) so that old records may be removed from the table.

The early payment request is considered successful when the original accelerated invoice is updated and the credit note is posted. A successful early payment request will result in the accelerated invoice being logged in the Taulia Register table with reference to the created credit note. This table is used in case an early payment cancellation request is received.

Early Payment Cancellation
Customers may request to cancel an early payment request for Dynamic Discounting after a DD compliance credit note is generated. Upon cancellation, the credit note is reversed, and the accelerated invoice due date (baseline date and terms fields) is reverted to the original due date.

Simplified Configuration for Supply Chain Finance
With this release, the Taulia Add-on for SAP integration suite managed gateway, 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 in the collection accounts configured in the Taulia Platform. 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 early payment request process. If the payee ID is instructed by the Taulia Platform in the early payment request, the legacy Collection Accounts configuration (t-code: TAUCIG_SCFCOLL) 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 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. Get in touch with your Taulia representative if you would like to take advantage of these features and migrate to the Platform Payables configuration.

NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS

Expanded Data for Supply Chain Finance
The Payables Invoice integration process 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.

Similarly, the Payables Payment integration process 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.

Updates to Enable Integration with Third-Party Workflow Solutions
Enhancements have been made to enable customers to include invoices/credit notes created within third-party workflow solutions to be sent to the Taulia Platform within the payables invoice submission process. Third-party workflow documents can be included through custom code implemented through various Business Add-ins (BAdIs).

The BAdI for feeders (TAUCIG_FEEDER) has been enhanced to allow custom logic to add/remove documents from the list of objects to add to the queue table. This BAdI can now be implemented with the following new methods:
 - DURING_INIT: To modify the list of documents selected for initialization
 - DURING_DELTA: To modify the list of documents selected for delta processing

The BAdI for AP invoices (TAUCIG_AP_INVOICE) has been modified to allow the inclusion of custom-queued objects in the payables invoice extraction process via the HANDLE_BEFORE_SEND method.

The types of objects that can be added to the Taulia Blocklist (t-code: TAUCIG_BLOCKLIST) are now maintained on a new table (TAUCIG_BLOCKTYPE), which can be manually modified to add custom object types. This allows for third-party workflow items to also be added to the block list.

The logic in the Managed Gateway that determines when an object is an invoice has been enhanced to consider workflow documents that do not yet have a document number in SAP FI. This ensures that third-party workflow items are considered as invoices or credit notes when they are sent to the Taulia Platform.

Improved Early Payment Cancellation Handling
The handling of rejected early payment cancellation requests has been improved. Now, the Add-on sends the reason for the rejection via the Receive EP Cancel process to assist Taulia's Technical Services and Financial Operations teams in 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 integration 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.

Enhanced Support for SAP Business Network Integrations
In order 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 the Business Add-In (BAdI) for AP invoice customization (TAUCIG_AP_INVOICE).

Improved Logging
A superfluous message has been removed from the application logging. This message was being raised when a Taulia Business Add-in (BAdI) for a given process was implemented. Now, a more relevant message will be raised to identify that custom code within a BAdI was executed.

FIXED ISSUES

Faulty Managed Gateway Mapping for Invoices
Fixed an issue with the mapping of the structure for disabled finance type and reason, which can be set to control the eligibility of individual invoices for working capital product types in the Taulia Platform. This mapping has been corrected in the Managed Gateway middleware and does not require an upgrade of the Add-on.

Missing Payee Bank Information for Payments
Resolved an issue that was preventing payee bank information from being populated correctly on payables payment records in some cases.