2021-05-18 Acquisitions Group Meeting Notes

2021-05-18 Acquisitions Group Meeting Notes

Attendees

Ann Crowley

Ann-Marie Breaux

William Verner

@Catherine Geard

Dennis Bridges

Diane Cannon

@Dung-Lan Chen

@Frances Dotson

Heather

Jackie Magagnosc

Jean M. Pajerek

@Joanna Cerro

@John Ballestro

Julie Stauffer

Kimberly Pamplin

Lisa Maybury

@Lloyd Chittenden

Martina Schildt

@Masayo Uchiyama 

Michael Phillips

@Okay Okechukwu 

@Sashirley

Scott Perry

Scott Stangroom

Shannon Burke

@Shyama Agrawal

@Steven Selleck

TRINH BETHARD

 

Discussion items

Minute taker

@Heather Thoele

 

Discuss results of poll at Refining available columns in order search result list.

Dennis - about 5 minutes after in the video

Discuss how to treat encumbrances when re-open orders.

 

Video - 31 minute mark

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    • When you create a po, as long as there is a cost and fund distribution, when you open it the system will encumber the money against the funds.

    • Use case that came up, is that if you receive an invoice for one copy on an order that had two, and the second copy can not be acquired. Or receive both and one is damaged, and you only want to pay for one copy…. In the invoices app you only pay for one copy.

      • We know we will get another invoice later for the 2nd copy. Or for whatever reason do not want to release the money encumbered for the 2nd copy at this point

      • If decide to close the order while the money is still encumbered, when you close the order it will release the remaining encumbered money.

      • Is it possible after closing an order you might want to reopen it? If so, do we want the system to re encumber the money that was left on the order when it was closed? Does this align with your expectations?

        • Yes

      • 12:39 Dennis: To complicate it a little more: Now lets say we are ordering two things on this order. In his example two copies of one book and one copy of another on the same po.

        • PO line 1 is fully paid, and po line 2 is partially paid.

        • PO gets closed.

        • PO gets reopened. Do not want the value of the fully paid title re encumbered.

        • Ann-Marie – ordered two copied, paid for two copies. Then discover one  was missing a bunch of pages. Need to return it. So may get a credit and reinvoiced for new copy.

        • Julie, or, may need to pay an additional charge that comes in later. Don’t need to deal with encumbrance process.

        • Bill: Most valid case he’s heard is if it was closed in error.

        • Dennis: You can process an invoice against a closed order.

          • Chat: From Scott Perry (he/him/his) to Everyone:  12:46 PM You can pay against a closed po—with a warning

        • Dennis: If there was encumbered money when you closed the order. When you reopen the order you would expect the encumbrance to be there again.

          • In the cases where the money was spent when you closed the po, there is nothing to re encumber if it’s already been paid.

Review re-linking invoice lines to POL's

Video - 50 minute mark

UINV -193

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    • Open invoice that has not been approved.

    • Currently, the only way to change a line is to delete it, then add another line.

    • Ann-Marie 12:56 Quantity and price take from the invoice. But vendor ref number is the field where she has had questions. The way incoming lines will try to match, will first look for po number, then look for vendor ref number. If it finds one, will link. Question in her mind, if there was a VRN in the incoming and didn’t match or matched multiple, would you want the vendor ref number for the invoice line to be changed to the ones in the pol? Or the ones in the POL to be added to the edifact line.

      • From Dung-Lan Chen to Everyone:  12:58 PM - the second one.

    • Ann-Marie will put together some examples for us to see.

    • Dennis: What to do with the type? What if the numbers are the same, but the types are different? Which type is more accurate? The edifact or the po? Take up next time.

Discuss order renewal integration details and what data is most valuable to update.

 

 

Discuss receipt dates