How much visibility and control do you have over your accounts payable processes in SAP? These workflows are often many-layered and complex, especially at the enterprise level. Manual steps in these processes can consume too much time and create numerous opportunities for errors. Simultaneously, you may not be able to judge the health of your system or the effectiveness of your work. Centralizing control can help. With the Tungsten Process Director and our other automation platforms, you can consolidate and automate from purchase-to-pay to record-to-report.

With one entry point for all users, you can consolidate disparate workflows into a focal point where several diverse tasks can begin. Additional solutions available in the Tungsten Marketplace from third-party developers further extend the impact of your investment. To illustrate how the Process Director can be a game-changer, let’s spotlight the issues facing many modern companies.

The Difficulties Facing Companies Today

Well-functioning internal processes ensure vendors receive prompt payment, customers have a satisfactory experience, and the business remains financially healthy. However, even with advanced SAP deployments and automation in the mix, organizations continue to encounter frustrating stumbling blocks preventing lasting effectiveness. These issues often include some or all of the following:

• Opaque processes limit accessibility to clarity at each step of the workflow. This lack of transparency means an inability to judge the efficiency of processes or accurately judge cash flow immediately.
  
• A lack of integration with non-SAP work. Even with a SAP deployment, you may still have teams or particular workflows that rely on manual processing or disconnected systems. These create a pipeline for errors to affect data within SAP.
  
• Errors that slip through early on become time-consuming to correct when items reach the general ledger via SAP.
  
• An unstructured approach to automation can create bottlenecks rather than accelerate work. Users might have too much software to learn and juggle throughout the workday.
  

We developed the Process Director to manage concerns better and conduct financial workflows such as purchase-to-pay.

What Does the Tungsten Process Director Do?

The Tungsten Process Director is a single platform within SAP used for deep integration between different processes. It combines seamlessly with other Tungsten solutions, including AP Essentials, for advanced workflow automation unified under one digital roof. The Process Director excels at consolidating and improving financial processes driven by documents or requests. Integrate across one or more SAP instances simultaneously.

Inside Process Director, you can accelerate workflows that are burdensome to complete within a standard SAP deployment. With a web interface also available, even non-SAP users can find a familiar environment for accomplishing essential tasks.

For example, consider the split payment process. Manually making multiple payments to different parties from one invoice can be time-consuming and error-prone. With Process Director, there is an out-of-the-box capability for automating these tasks. Eliminate costly errors while unlocking more effective functionality.

Getting started is simple due to pre-defined logic packages for order-to-cash processes and more. Save development time and deploy faster with solutions for bringing automation to both request and document-related processes. Process Director also integrates with SAP Fiori for visualization, analysis, and reporting. With minimal training and setup required, this solution can transform your software environment, maximize the impact of automation, and generate better business results.

Going Farther With Tungsten Marketplace Solutions

In isolation, the Process Director is a powerful tool for simplifying work within SAP while extending the reach of solutions such as AP Essentials. However, there are other ways to increase the value of your investment and shorten the timeline towards visible results. The Tungsten Marketplace is home to many solutions that address specific business process needs or add extra functionality. There are a variety of such options for Process Director. Here’s a brief overview of a few to illustrate what’s possible.

The Process Director Enhancement Package

This solution, built by the Tungsten Professional Services team, incorporates a range of functions based on the needs we’ve seen in the field. While Process Director is exceedingly powerful from the start, business-specific use cases often require additional implementation. The enhancement package supports additional processing and management related to elements such as:

• Establishing the appropriate tax or jurisdiction code for a transaction
• Down payment processing or calculation
• Account assignment and user validation
• Selecting the recipient of workflow output
• Substitute maintenance
• Check requests

Realize the benefits of Process Director more quickly with enhancement packages.

The TotalAgility to SAP/PDAP Export Connector

This solution provides a critical link between TotalAgility or Tungsten Capture processes and your SAP/Process Director deployment. Document data and metadata captured and extracted via these solutions can pass through the connector directly to the destination of your choice. This direct route ensures extracted data syncs into SAP and can also serve as the trigger for transaction processes. The result is better data quality, fewer touch points, and faster results.

The AP Essentials Process Analyzer

This solution offers valuable insights for organizations using Process Director and AP Essentials. Process Director creates detailed and in-depth logs of all its actions.

Minit’s AP Essentials Process Analyzer can generate in-depth reports on various KPIs across your financial workflows by allowing access to these logs. Detailed dashboards and reports provide a granular view of how work occurs in your business. The Minit Analyst helps you obtain actionable insights for solving problems and achieving better results.

Embrace Better Accounts Payable Automation in SAP Today

The successful management of financial processes at scale is no easy feat—but the proper combination of automation solutions and business software can make it possible. Find out more today about how Process Director can reshape how your teams interact with SAP. Find more Marketplace solutions for additional ways to accelerate your automation journey. Leave behind error-prone processes and re-engage your skilled employees with more high-value work today.