Dear All, We would like to propose the idea of introducing support for Expense Management within any kind of business. Many a time a variety of expense type(consumable) item & services like stationery, office supplies, computer accessories, monthly services etc. are supplied to multiple locations of the company by different vendors. But they don't necessarily follow the same procure to pay process as that of regular saleable merchandise supplied by other vendors.
A typical business case could be that a vendor of stationary items or a vendor responsible for delivering hardware maintenance services sends consolidated invoice to Corporate office against multiple shipments/delivery of such items/services at different company locations without necessarily having a systemic Purchase Order in place. but still, it all requires to be tracked and reconciled against receipts at each location and properly vouched for accounting purposes to release the timely payment to vendors. In order to support the AP processing, such kind of invoices need to be vouched with respect to each vendor and payment needs to be processed by accounting for such multiple vouchers within any given accounting period for the corresponding vendor. We are planning to implement this voucher based invoice processing feature in Ofbiz soon and would welcome any kind of early inputs/feedback/past experiences. Thanks Tejas Khanna HotWax Systems
