Markview for imaging and routing of invoice approvals. • Email connector ... Also
has experience with Oracle and Markview (previous to acquisition). • Manually ...
Wisconsin IOF_IAPP Chapter Meeting Minutes Tuesday, 10/16/12 10:00am – 2:00pm •
Introductions: o Lynn Fay – Integrys (Green Bay) PeopleSoft Kofax • Fax/Email connector to import invoices into queues • Implement KTM (Knowledge Transformation Module) in 2013 Live Links SharePoint (conversion this year) Share Services environment o Debbie Schneider – QuadGraphics (Sussex) Lots of homegrown systems as they have great IT support CODA is financial software Shared Services environment Just signed up with ARIBA and using for POs & Invoicing Acquisitions experience as QG just went through a major one where their invoicing used to be 100,000 per year and they are now at 300,000 annually o Becky Arttus & Ed Zeitler – Madison Gas & Electric (Madison) PeopleSoft for Payables and GL Enter invoices manually 2,000 invoices a month Procurement Card program with US Bank o Jenny Binsfeld & Keri Paris – Schreiber Foods (Green Bay) Oracle for all financials (and ERP) • Currently on 11i but upgrading to R12 in July 2013 • Also use iSupplier portal for supplier self‐invoices as well as invoice/payment review by supplier Kofax • Markview for imaging and routing of invoice approvals • Email connector • Exploring KTM software for 2014 implementation Manually process about 100,000 invoices manually each year (another 100,000 are electronically submitted and managed by us) Procurement and Travel card programs with US Bank Currently implementing US Bank’s Payment Plus program o Susan Sweetman – Gustave A. Larson Company (Pewaukee) Novision (upgrade in 2013) for Payables and GL OnCourse/Filebound for back‐end scanning FASTS (with NFour) o Cheryl Lenich – BMO Harris (formerly M&I) (Brookfield)
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PeopleSoft for financials Vinnet (bought out by Concur) and tied into PeopleSoft NoPO items make up 85% of their transactions Storing of image with OnBase Also has experience with Oracle and Markview (previous to acquisition) • Manually routing of approver • Concur allowed the business unit and department to dictate where the invoice should be routed for approval
Spring 2013 Chapter Meeting: o Host Camille Richards – American Family Insurance Group, 6000 Parkway, Madison WI. Tentative Date: Tuesday, April 16 o Bring a friend – we encourage each person to bring a friend or contact with them to the spring meeting even if not a current member of IFO. This will help encourage new membership and further networking. We are looking for ways to increase attendance at our spring and fall meetings.. Fall 2013 Chapter Meeting ‐ Looking for volunteers to Host Fall 2013 Chapter meeting o No volunteers to date so please e‐mail Lynn if interested o No obligation to pay for lunch but just the desire to open up the use of your facilities to our group Speaker: Isabel Vermeer Vice President of Membership & Communications for the Institute of Financial Operations o Presentation on the IFO website and how to make better use of the resources available – www.financialops.org/home o Recommend to always log in first so you have full access to everything available on the website o My Account Update your profile for specific areas of specialty or interests o Main Home Page Topics of Focus • Provides you with a further detailed search if desired on a certain topic News, Commentary, and Buzz • Feature story; updated once every two weeks • Online access to the quarterly magazine What’s Happening • New deals or things that are going on with IFO such as refer a friend bonus or bring your AR counterpart for free to Fusion Connections • LinkedIn Connect o www.linkedin.com
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o Please sign up to begin making connections with others – aids in not losing contact with individuals if you move positions or companies o Next step is to join Groups to be a part of and get their news feeds Search for Accounts Payable to find the group for IFO Ask the Experts Facebook Twitter
• • • Events • Any webinars or events going on • Fusion is the main annual event with 1400+ attending each year o Toolbar across the top of the Main Home Page About Us • Ways to contact IFO • Will respond to your question within 24 hours Networking • Similar links as the Connections from the home page • Also includes the local chapter site for contact information ho how to get involved in the local meetings • Ask the Experts o Can post questions that the IFO Board will respond to within 48‐ 72 hours • Career Center o Can post your current open positions on the site o IFP will post for about two weeks and then it will come down Conferences • Three conferences held each year: o UK Evolution o Fusion ( May 19‐23, 2013) o Canadian Symposium • On‐site training option available o Instructors can come out and do a learning session with your company E‐Learning • Free learning webinars are held the third Thursday of each month • Self‐Study – webinars and documents available at any time for members o The free learning webinars will soon be posted I this section for a time if you are unable to attend the live session Certification • CAPP & CAPA are the two certifications available o Difference between the two is the pre‐requisite and background of the person pursuing \\\INTEGRYSGROUP.NET\DATA\DEPTS\FA_ACCOUNTSPAYABLE\DEPARTMENTAL\AP\GENERALINFORMATION\IAPP MTG DOCUMENTATION\AGENDA IAPP_IOFO 2012 FALL AGENDA.DOC
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Guidance • Standard setting organization and providing authoritative guidance for organizations Store • Good collection of books specific to your topics as well as leadership • Merchandise also available for recognizing your team during AP recognition week (second week in October each year) Resource Center • Many surveys are available under this section • Open surveys are also available here in case you want to participate in any of the them • Vendor reference guide o Complete listing of vendors for specific categories
Small Group Discussion o Topic 1: Best Practices & Document Management Best practice ideas for supplier management • Any remittance changes are audited each month to verify supporting documentation is in place o Example given that one of our members was contacted and asked to have the remit‐to changed. The change was done without proper verification. The AP person changed the lockbox they were sending payments to. It came to light after receiving collection calls inquiring about late payment that the customer was paying the wrong/fraudulent company. This member hadto go through legal means to attempt to get their money back. The member still legally owes the money and will most likely need to reprocess the billsbecause of this lack of verification. • Allow for address change o on legitimate invoice with our PO number o from person on company letterhead o e‐mail with old and new remit‐to o reject anything else B‐Notices & 1099 information • Recommend during a company vendor match using the IRS website • Can do a bulk match twice a year on the IRS website – suggested doing it in October to allow time to gather any information needed before 1099 season Imaging – back‐end vs front‐end • Best practice would be to go front‐end if you can with having invoices imaged right into the system for you. This would also allow you the opportunity to leverage online routing for approvals • PeopleSoft does have the capability within the software to do this
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Concur and Kofax’s Markview are other software options that people in the group use Expense Management • All payments for employees should be handled out of payroll. Best practice is not to have employee records in the vendor file. • Do you reimburse employees directly or mostly pay the credit card company? o Mixed response from the group of some pay directly while others just reimburse the employees o Reimbursing the employee directly provides more of an incentive to get the credit card activity recorded. If the credit card is paid directly it can be hard to get employees to submit the proper documentation as it’s not required to get reimbursed. Topic 3: Networking/Employee Motivation/Leadership and Other • Employee motivation ideas by Quad who has been through so much change from the acquisitions o Slogan embraced by team “We change for breakfast (and lunch and dinner, too) o Leadership training to really help infuse the culture if going through an acquisition o Video‐taped others and what it all means to them to be a part of the organization o Eventually people have to either adapt or you work with them to help them leave • Ideas for AP Recognition Week o Count the candy/beans – had to submit something that they either like about the company or the team in order to get any entry o Trivia contest about the company o Gather positive feedback from others within the organization and share with the team o Word search with company and payables terms (online website that creates it for you) o One liners that are specific to your organization that people have to either fill in the blank o “Who’s the best…..” Sharing who is the best at what from the team o Abbreviation contest
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Accounts Receivable o We don’t have Accounts Receivable topics planned for future meetings. If you are working in an Accounts Receivable role and would like to attend the next Chapter meeting, please email me at
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Questions from Members to discuss: o I am interested to know if anyone currently uses credit cards to pay their vendors and if so, how that process works as well as any areas of concern. In addition, we are starting to research a potential P2P automation project. In essence where orders are sent to a network which vendors are a member of as well so that they can send order confirmations and ultimately invoices back to us electronically Curious to know if any other IAPP members currently use this process. o OCR Technology – Looking for local chapter member currently using OCR to capture invoice line detail and automatically load into ERP system. Who is currently using OCR in their operations today? o Lien Waivers – Does your AP staff have to obtain lien waivers from Suppliers? What steps are required from your AP staff? Officers • Beth Clausen – Vice President • Jenny Binsfeld – Secretary • Storm Jernigan – Web Publisher • Lynn Fay ‐ President
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