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Release Overview Webinar. SelectSite / HigherMarkets 12.3 Wednesday, October 17, 2012. What we’ll Talk about today. Miscellaneous. Administrative Topics. AP. Spend Director. Reporting. Approvals. Recommended Browsers / Operating Systems.
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Release Overview Webinar SelectSite / HigherMarkets 12.3 Wednesday, October 17, 2012
What we’ll Talk about today Miscellaneous Administrative Topics AP Spend Director Reporting Approvals
Recommended Browsers / Operating Systems • SciQuest is now providing a list of recommended browsers and operating systems. • As before, this information is available from the Product Release Library. • The primary change with this release: Firefox 3.6 is no longer recommended
What’s New in SelectSite? Spend Director
Product Showcase Enhancements Home Page View: 12.3 brings more flexibility in how you display suppliers and forms on the home page Option: Show icons on stickers to indicate punch-outs and forms
Forms in the Product showcase • Forms today: • Only in “Showcased Services” area • Limited control in terms of user visibility • 12.3 Forms in the Showcase: • Works like all other “stickers” • Can be made visible by role, department, business unit, or specific users
New Concept: Shopping Personas • Personas allow users to shop for more than one Department and Business Unit • The Persona shopping experience will be the same as if the user changed their Business Unit or Department in their profile. • The user is able to select the appropriate persona and shop with the available forms, favorites, and showcase assigned for the department or business unit.
Persona Selection Personas are available for selection The selected Persona is identified with the icon and displayed on the page
Persona Access: Setup • Administrators can grant persona access by selecting the appropriate assignment using the Access tab in the user profile. NOTE: This tab was previously labeled document access. • All current document access assignments are not impacted with the changes to the Access tab.
Product Search Feedback Notification • Administrators can now receive an email when shopper’s submit feedback regarding product search.
What’s New in SelectSite? Approvals
Approval Enhancements Approvers are the second largest user group in SelectSite. • What do approvers review? • Purchase Requisitions (Requisition Manager) • Purchase Orders (Requisition Manager) • Invoices(AP Director/Settlement Manager) • Sales Orders (Supplies Manager) • For the 12.3 release, we’ve focused on two areas for approvals improvement: • The approvals interface • Order consolidation
New Approvals Interface You can choose to see approvals by folder (like today) or in list form Control your view: show/hide details and collapse folders Filter the approval documents by supplier, by folder, by custom field , and more The numbers to the right of the filters indicate how many documents fit that criteria
New Approvals Interface Sort options for your approval documents Aging Information is displayed and available for approvers and administrators to see
New Approvals Interface • Three new sub-tabs for approvals Single outbox tab for all approvals that have been reviewed
New Approvals Interface • Three new sub-tabs for approvals Separate tab for notifications
New Approvals Interface • Three new sub-tabs for approvals Assign a substitute approver when you will be unavailable – for a single folder or all folders
What’s New in SelectSite? Reporting
New Permission for Viewing Reports New permission allows access to cycle time and invoice reports for non-administrators. Great idea for AP team! Permission name: View Operational Reports
New Report: PR to PO Cycle Time This new cycle report measures the time between when a PR was created and the original PO creation date – not including any revisions. Report name : Time from PR submission to original PO revision
New Report: Invoice Source By Supplier This new report helps organizations understand how invoices are being received from suppliers. Suppliers invoices can be created manually, electronically, automated, or through import.
New Report: Invoice Cycle Time This new report measures the time it takes for an invoice to be created (submitted) to completion. The Goal: Find efficiencies in invoice processing time
Matching Details Available from Invoice Matching Tab Matching Exceptions
Rejected Lines Excluded from Matching • Rejected lines are no longer included in matching calculations • Matching will only occur on lines that have not been rejected • Approvers will no longer have to manually approve every invoice with rejected lines • Time saver for AP Processors!
What’s New in SelectSite? Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Enhancements • Document Attachment as filter criteria for Document Search • Management of (Account) Code Favorites through user import • Organizations can create new supplier classes (in addition to the 100 pre-defined classes that SQ provides)
Thank you for attending the SelectSite/HigherMarkets 12.3 Release Overview Webinar!