Purchase Requests and Purchase Orders

Purchase request processors will now be able to search on supplier name when they search for specific purchase requests.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement makes it easier for clients to quickly find purchase requests from a specific supplier or set of suppliers.

With this release, Concur has added a new icon at the line item level of purchase requests that are part of the cost object approval workflow. This helps cost object approvers to easily see the purchase requests that they need to approve.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement will make it easier for clients to quickly find and approve purchase requests in cost object approval workflows.

With this release, purchase request creators, purchase request approvers and purchase request processors will be able to see the contact name and email address of the purchase order contact in the Supplier field of the purchase request. For purchase requests creators, this means in the New Item section when they create a purchase request and in the Request Items section of the opened purchase request in edit mode. For the purchase request approver, they will see it in the Request Items section of purchase requests in edit mode.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This enhancement will make it easier for clients to quickly find and contact the relevant contact person of the purchase order.

Capture Processing

With this release, the policy-based configuration of VAT handling at the header and line item levels is now retired. Instead, Capture Processing will determine amounts remaining to be itemised and request total amounts using logic based on the actual placement of a VAT field on a form. This means that the captured data is now form dependent, and will display at the header or line item level based on the location of field.

Business Purpose/Client Benefit: This change complements changes made in the Invoice product regarding VAT handling behaviour.

Terminology

In the May release, Concur changed the following Italian terms.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes improve accuracy and consistency of the Italian version of all Concur solutions.

In the May release, Concur changed the following Swedish term.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change improves accuracy and consistency of the Swedish version of all Concur solutions.

Beginning in the May release and over the next few months, Concur will be changing the following Dutch terms.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes improve accuracy and consistency of the Dutch version of all Concur solutions.

In the May release, Concur changed the following Brazilian Portuguese terms.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes improve accuracy and consistency of the Brazilian Portuguese version of all Concur solutions.

Planned Changes

Concur is targeting to release the enhanced fiscal calendar for Analysis/Intelligence in July. A fiscal calendar allows organisations to define their accounting periods independent of the standard calendar year. Many organisations define their own calendars to model their financial reporting to reflect seasons in their business, to compare results with direct competitors and to avoid the busy year-end season in January.

The new fiscal calendar will be available in the Reporting Configuration tool, which is accessed by clicking Administration > Invoice.

The Quick Tips section of the Concur Solutions home page (concursolutions.com) is targeted to be removed in the July service release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This update simplifies the look-and-feel of the home page, making it easier to view and access the information on the page.

Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) version 10 browsers under Concur products will end on 18 August 2017. Concur strongly advises clients using IE v.10 to update to the latest IE browser version before that date, or to install and work with another supported browser.

Users still using IE v.10 will see a banner.

UPDATE: Please note these dates:

• EU datacentre: Completed on Tuesday, 4 April 2017
• US datacentre: MOVED TO Wednesday, 12 July 2017

Concur announces an End-of-Support cycle for version 1.0 of the TLS encryption protocol, continuing support for the more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. As background, the TLS protocol allows secure back and forth communications between a phone or computer and a cloud-based service.

Note that, since less than 1% of Concur users are logging in to Concur Solutions by using browsers or phones limited to version 1.0, a very small number of users are affected by this support discontinuation.

We have moved the date in order to give our clients ample time to understand and make the required manual changes to their browser's security settings. These changes will be detailed in an upcoming service release.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Concur is taking this step after careful consideration of both the client’s security and ease of upgrade to the newer, more secure 1.1 and 1.2 versions of TLS. This end-of-life plan for TLS v 1.0 ensures our clients are communicating with Concur services in a safe and secure manner using TLS v. 1.1 and later versions.

Client Notifications

The list of non-affiliated subprocessors is available here: Concur Non-Affiliated Subprocessors (English Only)

Monthly browser certifications, both current and planned, are available with the other Concur monthly release notes, accessible from What's New - Professional Edition