Invoice

SAP Concur has introduced the first version of a new user interface for Invoice clients. Version 1.0 of the new user interface is targeted at the Accounts Payable (AP) user who is constantly monitoring the health of the Invoice lifecycle within the system. With a new AP landing page, concepts of Call to Action and Work to Zero are being brought to the forefront to better inform AP to ensure they are working on the highest priority task.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: The new Invoice user interface enables clients to work more efficiently and provides them greater visibility into their invoices in flight.

Invoice Import

Support for a new record type has been added to the request_comma_delimited_v2.xml invoice import definition file. The new record type, 210, provides a new way to import historical invoices into Concur Invoice.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change enables clients to import invoices that have already been processed. For example, new SAP Concur clients can import invoices that were processed by a previous system.

Supplier Management

Targeted for late July, users with the Supplier Manager role will be able to create and approve suppliers within Invoice. Currently, users with the appropriate roles can create unapproved suppliers by requesting a new supplier. When this feature becomes available, clients with the Supplier Manager role assigned to them will be able to create and approve new suppliers within Invoice.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This feature will provide clients with a more efficient way to get an approved supplier into Invoice without relying on the existing import and matching processes.

Purchase Order Extract

For clients that have a purchase order type extract configured, the following new fields can be added to the purchase order extract definition:

• Is a Change Order

• Purchase Order Line Item UOM (Unit of Measure) Code

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change enables clients to extract additional information and more easily connect an extracted purchase order with a previously processed purchase request.

Concur Open

Concur Open is the SAP Concur near-real-time service status dashboard. This dashboard displays known and widespread outages and incidents for select SAP Concur services and all data centres. Concur Open displays the current service status as well as incident history for the past 20 days.

Targeted for the end of July, new functionality will be added to Concur Open. Users can continue to access Concur Open and view Concur service availability; no functionality will be removed.

However, with the release, SAP Concur users will be able to log in to Concur Open and:

• View service status for the services and the data centre that are specific to their company

• Access subscription options for updates about the incidents that affect the services specific to their company

• View service history for the past two years as well as detailed root cause analysis information and the actions taken by SAP Concur for specific incidents

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: Customers use Concur Open to monitor their SAP Concur services outages, status and availability. Adding this new functionality will provide customers with a personalised view of their service status and availability. SAP Concur's goal is to provide a more accurate and transparent view of incidents/outages.

Processor Privacy Statement

The Processor Privacy Statement link is available in the SAP Concur footer.

Not all pages in SAP Concur display the footer. If the link is not displayed, return to the Home page and click the Processor Privacy Statement link there.

The Processor Privacy Statement link is also available in online Help.

Planned Changes

The items in this section are targeted for future releases. Concur reserves the right to postpone implementation of – or completely remove – any enhancement/change mentioned here.

Invoice

In a future release, SAP Concur will replace instances of the term "payment request" and its iterations with the term "invoice" and its iterations. These changes will be made in the user interface, the Invoice documentation and in all other SAP Concur product documentation where it appears.

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: This change helps to ensure that the terminology used in SAP Concur is consistent with industry standard terminology.

Supplier APIs

SAP Concur will add support for company JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication to the following v3.0 supplier methods and APIs at https://developer.concur.com:

• POST

• PUT

• DELETE

• Add/Update Supplier Banking

• Add Supplier Group

• Delete Supplier Group

Business Purpose / Client Benefit: These changes will enable SAP Concur to certify third-party integration partners as SAP Concur App Center partners.

Plain Text FTP Support

SAP Concur announced the End of Support for the use of plain text FTP for transferring data to and from SAP Concur.

Plain text FTP is not a secured protocol and has inherent security vulnerabilities. On 1 September, 2018, SAP Concur Operations will apply a security update to our File Transfer infrastructure, restricting the use of plain text FTP as a part of our ongoing commitment to securing our customers’ data and meeting the audited security requirements of the SAP Concur Trust Platform.

For more information, refer to the Plain Text FTP Retirement FAQ (English Only).

What This Means – The Client Experience: After 1 September, 2018, uploads of file types such as Employee, List, Attendee and other Import files, as well as downloads of SAE and other Extract files that use Plain Text FTP, will not be accepted via SAP Concur’s Filemover system. This will significantly impact client usage of SAP Concur products such as Concur Travel, Concur Expense and Concur Invoice, as well as integration activities to customers’ financial systems. There will be no exceptions beyond 1 September, 2018.

Client Notifications

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

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