X call to AP55

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DougAB
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    Here's our scenario:

    Some of our suppliers charge our corporate credit card immediately when an item is ordered from them.  (we provide some of our suppliers our CC # b/c we get $ back on purchases).  Once our CC statement is available, these charges only show who the supplier is, but does not reference any PO number that we sent them (nor Invoice # they sent us).  We are trying to find a way to match these charges to the orders.  I spoke with a Lawson business consultant and she said the best way to handle this is to use AP55 to do the match, b/c the invoice will already be in our system (we interface our invoices from our OMS system).  She said we would need to make an ‘X’ call to AP55, whereas the ‘X’ call would be done in Process Flow.  She didn’t know much else about it.

     

    Have you experienced something like this before?  We’re new to Lawson and not sure what an “X” call is?  She said a Lawson consultant, David Tomesha (sp?) had done this work before several times. 

     

    Appreciate any help, thanks!!

    Woozy
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      Hi DougAB - Unfortunately I can't help you much with your main question, since we aren't licensed for AP.  It sounds like a basic voucher match, so I'm guessing your AP folks already do some of that using AP55 and I'm guessing that just playing with the form manually may clarify what they were suggesting.  Hopefully someone else will weigh in.

      My comment is that David Tashima is awesome.  If you are considering going the Lawson Consultant route, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to consider him.  We worked with him on a particularly nasty issue relating to Exec Deferred Comp deferrals and match, and felt very good about the knowledge and experience he had and the support he provided.

      Good Luck!

      Kelly
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      Kyle Jorgensen
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        I'm unfamiliar with the exact business process that would have to be modeled in ProcessFlow. However, the call that your referring to is likely an "AGS" call. It's a service call back to the application that does something on a particular screen as if a user were doing it by hand (i.e. Add, Change, Delete, Release (etc.) a record). It's the work-horse component of how ProcessFlow updates the application.

        And, yes, I ditto the recommendation of D. Tashima! He knows both the application and ProcessFlow very well.
        David Williams
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          There are specific forms that allow you to select (LineFC=X) a line record and then transfer to another form that will open to the record you had selected. That is the only time I am aware of that an "X" is used on a form. It could be, however, that the person you were talking to was using "X" as a generic and saying that you could perform an AGS call against AP55 (since you could do an Add, Change or Delete on the form).

          Basically, you can almost do any form function within ProcessFlow that you can do on the actual form itself.
          David Williams
          DougAB
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            Thanks all for your feedback.