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FIS Brings the Right Processes into the Mobile World

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FIS Brings the Right Processes into the Mobile World

Enterprises across all industries already benefit from the advantages of mobile technologies. Simpler interface designs are essential for a “location-independent” working environment.
With Fiori apps and its UI5 tool, SAP provides the technology for designing more simple working environments. As an SAP Partner Centre of Expertise, FIS has extensive experience in the development of mobile apps for SAP ERP. Because of our expertise and depth of knowledge, FIS re able to make intelligent use of the new technology standards and be the partner of choice for SAP customers with requirements of Fiori app mobile applications developments.
Usability is one of the most important criterion for Web and mobile functions. With the new technologies, SAP has taken a major step forward. Previously, only a restricted number of input fields were available. Now several hundreds of controls are provided via SAPUI5, which can be used to design user interfaces in a much more flexible framework.
The FIS Development team engineers offer their customers the required proficiency in Fiori apps.
In the process of targeted usability consulting, qualified procedures detect usability weaknesses (usability testing) and user requirements (requirement analysis) and find out what the user really needs (User Centred Design).
With its launch-pad-compliant FIS/edc® app for invoice approval, FIS was the first organisation to show how consistent usability orientation works with invoice processing. The mobile app strictly follows the Fiori “1-1-3 Experience" design principle. This focuses on a specific users (role) and a definitive task that has to be processed via three navigation steps or less.
Previously, FIS Information Systems has provided an appropriate app for creating SD sales projects for the “technical” wholesale industry - and many more apps are now imminent.
Stefan Seufert, certified Usability Engineer and Senior Consultant SAP Development at FIS GmbH states: "Our development team are working intensively on the standard Fiori apps to find the best technical and best business fits for our clients. We always endeavour to find processes that would benefits from mobile technologies. In the very simplest form, FIS extend the standard software or add our own UI5 developments. FIS follows the premise of 'Show FIS your process and we will illustrate how to best mobilise it'."
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Karro Food – savings with statement processing

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Karro Food – savings with statement processing

With pressures to process more financial documents from suppliers and customers, Karro Food Group look intensely at current business processes to question whether savings can be made whilst maintaining data quality. Karro already process supplier invoices in paper and email attachment using FIS tools – FCI and FIS / edc (invoice monitor). The solution is optimised to create a significant ‘blind booking rate’ for invoices – i.e. invoices booked with zero-touch from Karro shared service staff.
Karro used to view all reconciliations against data in SAP manually. This work has been significantly diminished by comparing the data from the statements and the data in SAP electronically – only the statements with different values are presented.
The advanced practice of using more EDI and electronic documentation means that the Karro accounts team can focus on more value added tasks.
Sharon Bennison, Systems and Business Process Improvement Manager for Karro Foods heads the progressive strategy. ‘There is pressure from the business to make all processes within Karro as efficient and effective as possible. We are always on the lookout for making savings and the vendor statements monitor utilises many of the FIS technologies we have already. Replacing labour-intensive tasks with more effective IT technologies means that our existing team is able to manage increasing workload as our business expands’.
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Browsing the Online Shop on the Apple Watch

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Browsing the Online Shop on the Apple Watch

Ordering using wearable technologies – a first for this new function of the FIS/eSales® Mobile Shop.
Mobile access to information is ubiquitous nowadays and apps are optimised for their use on mobile devices as well as business desktop applications.
Recently, FIS have created an addition to FIS/eSales® - providing a Mobile Shop that many existing FIS users have installed on their own tablets and smartphones. The app is used primarily to place orders with their suppliers or to review documents related to accounts documents such as purchase orders and invoices etc.
Now, FIS has extended the breadth of the technology scope by developing an Apple Watch app as the first wearable device that can be used to browse and order goods.
Only functions corresponding to the size of the Smart Watch will be available to the user. Via "Siri" voice recognition, the user “enters/speaks” a search term and the specific products are retrieved. The user can now browse through goods via their watch, call the desired product (including detail information) and place into the shopping basket.
At the FIS 2015 Innovation Day, this app was presented to our clients for the first time with a promise of a version for Android wearables to follow. This first project of its type demonstrates that the FIS applications can run on the latest devices as a leading developer at the leading edge of mobile technology.
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The Caravan and Motorhome Club accelerate automation levels with Document Options Capture Services and FIS / edc

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The Caravan and Motorhome Club improve automated vendor payables

Document Options services extended to provide invoice reading as a service. FIS Invoice Monitor software provides automatic three-way matches for invoice postings and approvals workflow.

The Caravan Club and Motorhome Group have been established for more than a century and offer services and support to their members within the camping and motorhome community. The club boasts more than 200 active sites within the UK.
Within their payables department, the Caravan and Motorhome Club did have issues with late payments to suppliers.
Increased document automation levels and invoice visibility were essential when processing at both their head office, in East Grinstead, and also at site level which are managed by wardens.
The Caravan and Motorhome Club were approached by Document Options, an established FIS partner and document capture specialist, who suggested an enhanced invoice scanning service.
Using FIS / fci – invoice data collection software, Document Options would not only scan the invoice but also provide the data-file with the key invoice content.
Jon Laws, Financial Controller of The Caravan and Motorhome  Club stated, ‘removing the scanning and keying parts of the process and moving them to Document Options, who are equipped with the technology and scanning hardware, proved the best business fit for us. In addition, because FIS are one of SAP’s leading global partners, their SAP expertise mitigated any risk with configuration and SAP integration’.
Liz Parish, Head of Accounts Payable added ‘We have already seen a marked increase in automatic booking rates and the reporting functions with FIS / edc ensure we have visibility of outstanding invoices – so we can avoid late payments. The reception of the new system within the business has been excellent’.
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FIS/edc Obtains SAP Certification for SAP ERP under SAP Netweaver and SAP S/4HANA

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FIS/edc Obtains SAP Certification for SAP ERP under SAP Netweaver and SAP S/4HANA

The deeply SAP-integrated FIS / edc solution automates the processing of accounts payable/receivable documents. It has been successfully re-certified by SAP SE as an add-on under SAP Netweaver. FIS/edc also received a certification for utilisation in the in-memory SAP S/4HANA platform. The SAP Integration and Certification Centre (SAP ICC) demonstrates the integration in SAP ERP under SAP HANA and the use of standardized integration technologies for the FIS add-on innovations.
The FIS / edc technology provides a highly efficient method of processing supplier invoices and other accounts documents - an unmatched first time match rates. FIS processes interact with standard SAP processes to provide the most effective method of document processing within SAP ERP.
The document reading software, FIS / fci  offers high recognition rates, processes any kind of inbound media (fax, e-mail, PDF etc.) and can be expanded up to a completely digital inbox for documents such as payment advice notes, vendor statements and sales orders.
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FIS Develops Apps for Approval and Reporting – SAP Fiori

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FIS develops mobile apps for invoice approval and reporting running on SAP Fiori

FIS Information Systems develop several SAP (ECC6 or S/4HANA) integrated applications to improve business processes.
FIS / edc (invoice monitor) as an application that is used for automatic invoice processing in SAP. For invoice approvals the system uses an approval workflow running on SAP Web Dynpro. 
As an additional option, FIS have now created an invoice approval process running on SAP Fiori. The “mobile approval procedure” app, which is based on the SAP Fiori app standard, has been developed for invoice processing.
The app works with the FIS / edc business logic and provides the user with the intuitive design of Fiori apps. When accessing via launchpad, the number of the workflows to be approved is displayed on the app tile.
Invoices are displayed in different colours depending on the urgency level. A detail screen displays the header data of the document.
Further Fiori apps have been created to provide detailed reports for processing rates per company code over a given timeframe.
 
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Strategic Partnerships Enabling Optimal Business Solutions

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Strategic Partnerships Enabling Optimal Business Solutions

FIS have a number of trusted partners that provide data reading and archive storage software and services to further enhance our business process optimisation technologies

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Document Options Limited are an established FIS UK partner providing a range of document capture and key document data reading services that utilises the FIS invoice reading software FIS / fci.

Document Options Limited work with FIS to support their client base with invoice capture and data reading services. The service addresses the issues of clients who prefer to “outsource” the capture and key data reading component of their invoice processing solution as an alternative to manual data keying or in-house software.

Furthermore, Document Options Limited also provide flexible invoice processing solutions for their SAP and non-SAP client base.

www.document-options.co.uk

 

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H&S Heilig und Schubert Software AG are a leading SAP partner with offices in Germany and Austria. An FIS partner for several years, H&S predominantly provide FIS with products, services and support for their SAP certified document archive storage.

The SAP Certified inPoint Content Archive provides fast and reliable access to stored documents from FIS / edc – invoices, sales orders, statements, order confirmations etc.

The archive supports both SAP ECC 6 and SAP S/4HANA infrastructures.

www.hs-soft.com