From the course: S/4 Finance: Fiori Accounts Payable Analytics

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AP days payable outstanding

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, we're going to look at the Fiori app days payable outstanding. The scenario here is that as an accounts payable manager you would like to view the key performance indicator, days payable outstanding, or DPO for short. And what this key performance indicator does is it shows you the average number of days it takes to pay your suppliers. So really it's a measure of the efficiency of your accounts payable function. In SAP DPO does have some different methods, in this case, we're going to look at the SAP direct method. So in order to calculate the number of days to pay suppliers system per document is going to take the invoice posting date and subtract the actual invoice payment date to get a number in days. And then in this app the system calculates a 12-month rolling average so that you can then see how efficiently you're paying your accounts payable vendors. You can also slice and dice in the app…

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