Updating the object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit
Updates with new features are announced in the Release Notes, and all the updates for the Accounts Payable Starter Kit are listed at the end of this topic. Update your Starter Kit regularly to benefit from our new developments.
Version 1.0.0 of the object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit, which is built on the new Studio experience, is available in the Celonis Marketplace as a new package. When you upgrade to (or past) version 1.0.0, you can’t download the package as an update to your existing object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit package. You’ll need to download and install it as a new installation (Installing the object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit has the steps). The new package has the same name as the old package, as it's a replacement for it, and we won’t be updating the old package built with the legacy Studio components.
After you’ve updated to (or past) version 1.0.0, when there’s a further update for the Accounts Payable Starter Kit, you’ll see an UPDATE AVAILABLE button next to the package name in the Dependencies tab in the package settings. To get there, click the Package Settings icon (the box) and select Dependencies.
For updates after version 1.0.0 of the package, we’ll clone the existing versions of your views, and add these to the package navigation along with the new versions of the views. (You can opt out of this by deselecting the “Duplicate copied assets before update” checkbox when you action the update.) Cloning the views means you won't lose the customizations you made to existing views, and you can copy them over to the new version of the views. Alternatively, you can discard any of the new views and revert to your existing versions.
Here’s how to update your Starter Kit after version 1.0.0. If you’re on a version earlier than that, follow the steps in Installing the object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit instead.
Check the change history at the end of this topic for all the releases that have happened since your current version, to see what changes were made since you last updated the Starter Kit. If there’s any action you need to take, such as manually updating a KPI or reapplying some of your customizations, we’ll tell you here.
Tip
Your current Starter Kit version is shown in the Dependencies tab in the package settings.
In Studio, click Publish to publish your current Starter Kit package, so that you can revert to this in case there are any problems during the update.
In the Dependencies tab in the package settings, click the UPDATE AVAILABLE button to update the Starter Kit to the latest version.
The popup lists the updated assets. If you don’t want to copy your existing views and customizations, deselect the “Duplicate copied assets before update” checkbox. If you do want them copied, leave the checkbox selected. Then click Update to proceed.
In Studio, make any required manual updates that we’ve noted in the change history for your new Starter Kit version, or for the other versions since you last updated the Starter Kit. Assuming you let us copy your existing views and customizations, you can compare your previous views to the new views and transfer over any customizations you want. You can also discard any new views that you don’t want, and keep using your existing versions of them.
Check all the Starter Kit’s views to make sure everything works correctly, all the fields are populated, and the numbers look as you’d expect.
If there’s an issue and you’re sure you made any required manual changes correctly, see Contacting Support to find how to get help.
If everything’s working, click Publish to publish your updated package and make it available to your users.
Change history
Version 1.1.0:
Rebuilt the ‘Paid On-Time’ formula and classification. The new method classifies invoices into Early, On-Time, and Late, and distinguishes between cash discount and non-cash discount invoices. The new calculation dynamically adjusts the due date per invoice line depending on the cash discount amount taken, removing the possibility of an invoice being flagged as an early payment due to a cash discount being taken.
For Invoices with no cash discount taken, the latest payment term is used to calculate the invoice due date.
For Cash Discount Invoices, the amount taken is compared against the Cash Discount available in the payment terms.
When the cash discount taken is equal or less than the middle payment term cash discount amount, then the middle payment term is used as the due date for the On-Time Payment calculation.
When the cash discount taken is greater than the middle payment term cash discount, then the earliest payment term is used to calculate the Invoice due date.
Added new KPIs and inefficiencies to the Days Payable Outstanding use case tab:
Maximum DPO based on Best terms KPI
Maximum DPO based on PO terms KPI
Unfavorable PT mismatch (Inv/PO) Inefficiency
Unfavorable PT mismatch (Inv/MD) Inefficiency
Avg. Days Paid Early
Avg. Days Paid Late
Version 1.0.5 : Updated the variable value of “Clear Invoice Activities” to version 1.0.0 of the Celonis object types and event types.
Version 1.0.4: Compatibility update for version 1.0.0 of the Celonis object types and event types.
Version 1.0.3 : Fixed a bug for internal/external vendor recognition.
Version 1.0.2 : Updated the KPI “# Invoices”.
Version 1.0.1 : Compatibility update for event log naming (for example, p_celonis_VendorAccountCreditItemActivities becomes el__VendorAccountCreditItemActivities).
Version 1.0.0 : The GA release of the object-centric Accounts Payable Starter Kit.