What invoice types does VIM handle?

VIM processes purchase order (PO) invoices, non-PO invoices, credit memos for both scenarios, and down payment invoices. In practice the invoice mix also includes freight, tax, operating-expense, capital-expense, and consolidated invoices, along with invoices from one-time vendors, and each of these can follow its own configured process type. Country-specific invoice types are handled through configurable process types with localized rules, including requirements such as Brazil's nota fiscal, and custom process types can be added for specialized business scenarios.

On the intake side, VIM accepts invoices delivered through EDI, IDoc, email attachments, PDFs, scanned paper, and supplier portal uploads. For EDI specifically, VIM treats the IDoc as a data container, maps its segments to invoice header and line items, runs the same business rules used for every other channel, and can even generate an invoice image from the data, which removes the failed-IDoc queue that AP teams otherwise struggle to diagnose. Multi-language and multi-currency handling is native to the SAP environment. PO invoices run through automatic two- or three-way matching against the purchase order and goods receipt. Non-PO invoices follow a separate workflow that routes them for coding and manual approval, typically to the department that incurred the cost, because there is no purchase order to match against. Credit memos run through their own validation, including tax checks.