Intelligent Document Matching and Clearing in SAP S/4HANA

Organizations would have a wide range of financial transactions posted every day in their ERP Systems. Not every transaction is relevant for tracking whereas there can be some transactions that should be closely monitored until they are completed from process perspective such as paying supplier invoices in Procurement Process, collecting receipts from customers, remitting taxes to regulatory authorities etc. Failure to track such financial transactions will have adverse impacts on regular course of business such as attracting penalties when supplier invoices are paid late, less liquidity or inadequate working capital when collections are not processed on-time from customers etc, hence there is a requirement to have a functionality that can let business users to track the items as needed and mark them as closed once they are fully addressed. SAP S/4HANA offers Open Item Management functionality that can be enabled on General Ledger Accounts for tracking each line items posted in that General Ledger Account. SAP also offers Manual Clearing and Automatic Clearing Functionalities which can be used to identify the items manually or through systematic way for marking them as closed whenever they are complete. This article dives into various functionalities such as Open Item Management, Manual Clearing and Automatic Clearing and how they can be used to benefit business in tracking and closing the financial transactions efficiently.