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End-to-end process · Record to Report (R2R)

From transaction to financial insight

Blocked invoices, open items, period-end - answered, not ticketed.

Finance teams spend their days explaining SAP to everyone else: why an invoice is blocked, what's still open on an account, where a variance comes from. Bridge answers those questions at the source - in Teams, in Outlook, across whole SharePoint folders - so your team can close books instead of tickets. Finance work spans the seams: invoice checks reach over from purchase to pay, closing and reporting live in record to report. This page covers what your finance team actually asks - wherever it formally belongs.

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The grind today

Every blocked invoice becomes somebody's afternoon.

The requester asks the buyer, the buyer asks AP, AP digs through MIRO and FBL1N, and three handovers later the answer is "price variance". At period-end it gets worse: the same account questions, the same open-item hunts, under deadline. The knowledge sits in SAP - the time goes into retrieving it.

Accounts payable General ledger accountants Controllers Shared services

A real exchange

The answer, with the reason attached.

Bridge in Microsoft Teams

Illustrative - answers come live from your SAP.

Invoice status in Microsoft TeamsInvoice status, live from SAP Documents by period in Microsoft TeamsFiltered by period

Four surfaces, one close

Finance questions come from everywhere. Answers should too.

In Teams

Open items on an account, an invoice's payment status, a variance explained - answered in the channel where the question was asked, with the posting behind it.

"What's still open on account 160000?"

In Outlook

A supplier chases payment by email: pull the invoice's status without leaving the thread. A dunning note arrives as a PDF? Check it against the open items right there.

"Has this invoice been paid - and when?"

In SharePoint

Your invoice inbound as a watched folder: every arriving document is checked automatically against SAP master and transaction data - plausibility, correctness, duplicates, fraud patterns - and the findings filed right back.

"Check every incoming invoice - flag what's off."

In Excel*

An invoice or document number in a cell: ask what's behind it - vendor, amount, payment status. Later phase: Bridge fills the neighboring cells with the findings.

"Which document sits in B2 - and is it paid?"

Company knowledge

First knowledge source beyond SAP

"How do I post this?" Bridge knows your manual.

The questions your AP veterans answer a hundred times a year: which tax code for this constellation, accrue now or expense it, reversal or credit memo, what the cash discount policy actually says. Those answers don't live in SAP - they live in your internal accounting manual. Bridge reads it right out of your Microsoft 365 workspace and combines the rule with the live document from SAP: your policy, applied to this invoice.

Bridge in Microsoft Teams

Illustrative - rules from your own accounting manual, document data live from SAP.

Which tax code applies? Accrue or expense now? Reversal or credit memo? Is cash discount still allowed? How do we treat down payments? What does our manual say?

Accountants carry hundreds of these cases in their heads - and in the manual. Bring yours to the demo; that's the fastest way to see it work on your rules.

Under the hood

What Bridge reaches. What it can do.

Data sources

  • Supplier invoices and payment status
  • Journal entries and account balances
  • Open items - payables and receivables
  • Related purchase orders and goods receipts
  • Your internal accounting manual and posting guidelines - from your Microsoft 365 workspace
  • SAP data via released standard services - ECC and S/4HANA, no core modification

Capabilities

  • Explain blocked invoices, with the reason
  • Retrieve account information and balances
  • Identify open items and overdue payments
  • Explain variances and detect inconsistencies
  • Answer "how do I post this?" from your own posting rules
  • Answer period-end questions and prepare approvals*

*Write actions are planned for later phases - released explicitly, function by function, under your governance. Bridge starts read-only. Excel as a surface also arrives in a later release.

Every access runs through the user's own SAP account - nobody sees more than their SAP rights already allow. Everything stays in your Microsoft tenant, auditable end to end.

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Why it pays

Where the time comes back.

Fewer AP ticketsRequesters and buyers get their invoice answers directly - AP stops being the help desk for SAP.
Exceptions cleared fasterBlocks surface with their reason and context - resolved in minutes, not passed along for days.
A calmer closePeriod-end questions answered on demand, batches checked automatically - the crunch loses its edge.

See the finance workflow live.

Thirty minutes, your invoice and account questions, a live system.

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