Future Payables (S/4HANA)
Application component: Accounts Payable Analytics
App type: Analytical
Line of business: Finance
Leading industry: Cross Industry
Solution capability: Accounts Payable (S/4)
Scope items: Accounts Payable
Description:  With this app you can drill down to check on the top 10 amounts payable and the numbers of open items for the relevant suppliers. In addition, you can view the future amounts payable in a chart or a table according to company code, supplier, country and region of the supplier, account group of the supplier, and payment blocking reason. 
The analytical app displays the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Future Payables by Due Period. You can drill down to check on the top 10 amounts payable and the numbers of open items for the relevant vendors. You can view the future amounts payable in a chart or a table according to company code, vendor, country and region of the vendor, account group of the vendor, and payment blocking reason.
Key features:   View accounts payable by due periods You can analyze accounts payable according to the predefined due periods. For each due period, you can drill down further to the ten suppliers who have the most amounts payable. You can customize these due periods. In the Add Evaluation – Variant step of the SAP Smart Business Modeler, you can specify four due periods to group your future payables. In the default display, the period structure is as follows: 30 days (period 1), 60 days (period 2), and 90 days (period 3). This means, for example, that period 2 displays the payables with a due date between 31 and 60 days in the future.   View top 10 amounts payable by suppliers You can analyze the top ten suppliers who have the highest amounts payable and check the numbers of open items for these suppliers.   View accounts payable by company codes You can analyze future accounts payable according to company codes. For each company code, you can drill down further to the top ten suppliers who have the most amounts payable.   Filter accounts payable by payment blocking reasons You can filter accounts payable according to payment blocking reasons. For example, you can choose a certain reason why the supplier is blocked, and check for the supplier names.   Specify the key date for data analysis. This analytical app uses a single date as its key date. You can choose from the existing list of key dates in this app or create additional key dates using the Manage Date Functions app. You can create a single date or a date range as a key date. To define key dates, you must be assigned a role that has the same minimum authorization and business catalogs as the Analytics Specialist (SAP_BR_ANALYTICS_SPECIALIST) business template role.   In addition, the app supports the following technical features and options:    If your company uses SAP Jam, you can post comments there. You can also send emails from this app.   This app uses the C_APFUTUREACCOUNTSPAYABLE CDS view.  Caching is enabled for this app for better performance. You can click the refresh icon on the app tile and in the bottom-left corner of the app to refresh the data immediately. The data is also updated automatically. The frequency is determined by the cache duration in the tile configuration. For more information, see Caching in Creating Applications.  
Business roles: Accounts Payable Manager
Accounts Payable Manager : 
Carries out all functions in accounts payable accounting with an emphasis on setting guidelines and period-end closing.