Why include invoice automation in your electronic invoice project

Addressing the electronic invoice just as a regulatory compliance requirement, leaves a lot of value and potential for your ERP to be explored. When the project of e-invoicing at SAP integrates with invoice automation the result is a much more efficient, traceable and cost-effective process: fewer rejections, faster approvals and lower cost per invoice.

Disadvantages of an eInvoicing project without invoice automation

Many organizations implement electronic invoicing focusing solely on Connection to the official channel (PEPPOL, FACe, SDI, etc.), without reinforcing cycle automation Payable Accounts (AP) in SAP.
This causes:

• Lack of prior validations, causing errors or crashes in VIM or FI/MM.
• Poor end-to-end traceability, limited to sending and receiving documents.
• Increase in reprocesses and exceptions for incomplete or inconsistent data.

The result: the regulations are complied with, but the process remains manual, costly and invisible.

Your most efficient eInvoicing project: Invictia + VIM

When combining OpenText VIM With the Invictia de Brait add-on, your SAP environment goes from complying to automating.
Invictia acts as a native layer of electronic invoicing in SAP, which manages fiscal and format requirements at source, to deliver AviM validated and enriched information.

Key benefits of the eInvoicing integration + automated invoices

• Automatic pre-validations: format, taxes, duplicates, mandatory data and PO/GR correlation.
• Data normalization and enrichment: suppliers, materials, withholding, accounting templates.
• Lower rejection rate And higher Touchless Posting Rate.
• Full visibility of the AP cycle, from receipt to accounting.

👉 You can expand this vision in our articles on How to enhance OpenText VIM in SAP and VIM Analytics, where we explain how to measure and improve process efficiency.

Recommended architecture of an electronic invoicing project in SAP with invoice automation

A modern and sustainable architecture at SAP combines compliance, automation and analytics:

1. Invictia: a Brait-certified connector that integrates SAP with official e-invoicing channels, managing the validation, signing, sending and receiving of electronic invoices.
2. Tax and business rules layer: multi-standard controls before VIM.
3. OpenText VIM: automates accounting, exception management and operational reporting.
4. VIM Central Reporting/VIM Analytics: They exploit data to improve KPIAnd how Touchless Rate, First-Pass Yield or Lead time.

This integration End-to-end It maintains a Clean Core approach: all control within SAP, without compromising the core of the system or parallel developments or external dependencies.

KPIs that matter

The integration of Invictia + VIM allows us to measure key operational efficiency indicators:

• Rejection rate per channel and root cause.
• First-pass yield and touchless posting.
• Total lead time: from receipt to accounting.
• Average cost per invoice processed.

(These indicators can be easily viewed through VIM Analytics.)
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Why choose Brait for your Electronic Invoicing and automation project

In Brait we help organizations to Uniting regulatory compliance and operational efficiency in SAP.
Our proposal combines own technology (Invictia), functional experience in OpenText VIM And a Clean Core approach oriented to results and the best user experience.

• Invictia, our SAP connector for global electronic invoicing, which connects to local and regional platforms.

• Pre-validation accelerators and root cause monitors.
• Proven expertise within global projects of e-invoicing + VIM for SAP ECC and S/4HANA.
• SAP/OpenText certified equipment, with international support and a consultative approach.

💡 Turn your compliance into a competitive advantage.
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Request a assessment e-invoicing + VIM with Invictia and discover how Brait can help you automate your billing process from receipt to accounting.