SPM and P-Cards integration

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We have SPM application implemented in our company and now we are trying to integrate data from P-Cards (data sent by one of the banks we operate with).

Could you please reference us to some documentation regarding the integration between SPM and P-Cards. Which data do we have to load?. Which are the alternatives we have to load this data? Do we need to write custom code to re-format the bank files to accomodate SPM requirements? BOBJ-IM is the recommended tool for this?

Does anyone have any experience integrating data from P-Cards?.

Many thanks,

Claudia Arbanesi.

[Former Member]

Hi Claudia

Bank/PCard, T&E expenses are all types of spend and will go into the invoice cube.

Customers have loaded bank/pcard information into SPM. If the format is simple then you actually might not need any pre processing of the file. If the file format is straight forward and one is to one then you could simply use the templates in SPM data mgmt to create appropriate mapping and load the file in.

Regards

Rajesh

[Former Member]

What if we need to add additional attributes from our R/3 system? What about master data? Do we need to load any additional master data in relation to P-Cards information?

Thanks,

Claudia.

[Former Member]

If you wanted to add/create data and bring it into the file ten you might want to consider preprocessing. Like if you wanted to add cost centers or gl accounts into that file. You might need to have some sort of a script outside of SPM.

Conversely if you wanted to do this in SPM, I guess you could potentially modify the transformation going from Invoice inbound to detail layer DSO (0ASA_DS01 -> 0ASA_DS00) and plug in the appropriate code.

Regards

Rajesh