It's now easier to view and understand your spend by shipping or billing location. You can now find both the Shipping and Billing address and codes associated with an order as part of the View Orders Export.

Find when you last ordered a specific product or quickly reorder past products by using our new order history search. From the View Orders page you can search for terms in the product's Name, Description or Code and the results will show which orders contain products that match the criteria and allow you to reorder them. 

We have also made product name clickable in requisitions and orders so you can view a product's details in the same way you can from the Shopping Cart or search results.

We've made a fix to the 'other' filter in the catalogue review process so that it correctly displays all non-price catalogue changes.

It's now possible to easily integrate supplier updates with your finance system using our new Supplier Transaction Run. The Transaction Run provides a summary of all your supplier records that have been updated since the last transaction run so that you can schedule regular updates and keep your finance system up to date. This will allow you to utilise Unimarket as the source of truth for all supplier information. For more information on enabling this, please speak to our team.

We have also added a few enhancements to the Transaction Run screen and optimized performance to ensure reports run quickly.

We have received quite a bit of feedback that our receiving reminder emails are arriving before the goods had a chance to arrive! To ensure reminders are meaningful we've added a new community configuration that allows a reminder wait time to be set which delays the reminder. We recommend using this with your integrated suppliers who sometimes generate invoices the moment they receive the order. You now have a chance to receive the goods first!

Configuring organization units their their associated approval chains just got easier! We've added the option to import and export Approval Chains as part of your Organization Unit export.

To help you better manage the risk around updates to your supplier records, we have added audit capability so that all changes are recorded and transparent. Communities now have to an Audit History tab on each Supplier which tracks the date a change was made, which user made it, and what section of the Supplier was changed. You can use this to ensure changes are being made as per your business policy, and help assess any areas that need further investigation.

To allow you to process invoices more efficiently, we have added the ability to select and deselect all the lines you want to Invoice, rather than selecting them all individually. 

We've also tidied up the fields at the top of the invoicing screens to better slot in the new Remittance Address and Payment Term fields.

Keeping your supplier records up to date and accurate is increasingly important for compliance, but it's also a lot of manual work. Building on our recent supplier improvements, we now offer Communities a more effective process for reviewing and managing profile updates from suppliers. Our new review process gives you the opportunity to view and compare updates from suppliers with the information you currently hold. You can then choose to amend your records with the supplier's changes or keep the information you have. This gives you more visibility and greater control over the information, without the need to enter it yourself. 

Lite Suppliers have also been aligned to Registered suppliers so that all the same information such as a bank account can also be managed directly on a lite supplier.

But I still need to update my finance system...

The good news is that we will soon be adding a new automated supplier extract so you can push supplier profile updates directly into your finance system. Simply review the changes and once updated the new profile data can automatically flow into your finance system without further review or manual entry.

If you would like the supplier review process enabled, or to try it out in Demo, please contact your account manager.

To make it easier to manage supplier information we have made significant changes to community supplier management. This includes new supplier Contacts changes, as well as new tabs for Profile, Payments, Settings and other information. It also includes the ability for administrators to define community specific remittance addresses and contacts on both Registered and Lite suppliers.

The changes to supplier management are still in process, however over the coming weeks we will also be introducing the ability to manage more information on Lite suppliers and a process to review, compare and save profile information submitted from your registered suppliers. The end result is increased visibility and flexibility around the information you capture on your suppliers.