on 09-18-2012 5:37 PM
Dear T&E guru,
My company is looking to simplify the expense reporting and reimbursement process. We use SAP ECC 6.0 and Amex corporate card for the business trips. It seems like using SAP T&E module would achieve this goal, and I am trying to gather some information. Could you please advise:
1) What kind of license do we need to use SAP T&E? For example, is Employee Self Service is a must? Is SAP Portal a must?
2) If we only want to automate the Expense reporting portion, not the Travel management portion, do we still have to implement the entire T&E solution? Is there any other SAP modules that can do the same?
3) General implementation timeline of T&E - with or without Portal (if without Portal is possible), how long would it take? we are not using SAP to manage our HR at this point, and would this fact greatly increase the implementation timeline?
4) Do you have other suggestions than T&E, since all we would like to achieve is to automate the expense process and be able to integrate with AMEX so pre-populated receipts can be generated and settled in SAP?
Thank you so so much for answering these questions, and any information you can provide is greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Jing
You can implement the Expense Reporting part without implementing the T&E.
If you are not implementing the HR module, you still have to maintain few mandatory HR infotypes as they are required to implement Travel Expenses.
T&E implementation without portal might take 4-5 months to implement. T&E with ESS/Portal will take 6-7 months. T&E functionality without ESS is less meaningful.
Thanks.
Vips
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Dear vips,
Thank you so much for your input. It is very helpful and greatly appreciated! So it sounds to me that ESS or Portal is not a must for our situation, and all we need to implement is the the Travel Expense component of the Travel Management module.
I just want to clarify, the Travel Expense component alone will allow us to integrate with AMEX and get the trip report/expense report pre-populated based on the receipts from AMEX?
Thanks again!
Jing
It is also dependent on activating credit card clearing (no need to integrate travel planning either) and the supplied formats from Amex in accordance with our standard program for credit card upload RPRCCC00.
But I should add, I'd encourage you to search in the service marketplace about this as there's quite a bit of useful information - https://websmp206.sap-ag.de/tm as I think you'll find alot of what you are looking for there first of all.
Under Travel Management in Detail, you can find all the pre-requisites for Credit Card clearing.
cheers
Sally
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