What's New: Account Payable Role Center (2025 release wave 2)
Account Payable Role Center in Business Central (2025 release wave 2): a role center that gathers purchase documents, incoming e-documents, payments, approvals, Power BI reports and payable charts in one place. The video says it will be available in 27.1, from November.
- Introduction to Account Payable Role Center
- Business Values and Benefits
- Availability and Features Overview
- Role Center Demo and Activities
- Charts and Insights
- Closing Remarks and Resources
Overview
The video introduces a new Account Payable Role Center that centralizes workflow management for account payable processes. Purchase documents, e-documents and payments from several sources are brought into one place, so payable teams can focus on a single location for their operations.
A short demo covers the activities in the role center, including ongoing purchase orders, incoming e-documents, payment documents, approvals and intercompany processes. It also shows Power BI reports for purchase and account payable, and charts such as top five vendors, payable performance, overdue documents and age analysis. The presenter states availability as 27.1, from November.
Key points
- The Account Payable Role Center centralizes workflow management for purchase documents, e-documents, payments and approvals.
- Availability stated in the video: 27.1, which means from November.
- The role center focuses on ongoing purchase documents and the incoming part of e-documents only.
- Power BI reports related to purchase and account payable are available directly in the role center.
- Payable insights include vendor information, overdue documents, payable performance and age analysis.
- One chart shows top five vendors, and there are four different charts you can switch between.
- Payment documents, approvals and intercompany processes are accessible from the role center.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account Payable Role Center | announced, demoed | 0:06 | “First I need to remind you this will be available for 27.1. So that means from November” (0:58) |
| Centralized Workflow Management | status not stated, demoed | 0:20 | |
| Purchase and E-Document Management | status not stated, demoed | 1:09 | |
| Power BI Reports in Role Center | status not stated, demoed | 1:40 | |
| Payable Insights and Analytics | status not stated, demoed | 2:17 | |
| Payment Management and Approvals | status not stated, demoed | 1:09 |
Quotes
- 0:20 “We will centralize completed workflow management related for account payable processes from purchase documents, e documents, payments and all of them into one work”
- 0:35 “payable teams will be simplified focus on only one uh place for all operations”
- 0:58 “this will be available for 27.1. So that means from November”
- 1:09 “within this new RO center you can find in all available ROS we will be focused on completely ongoing purchase on incoming e documents”
- 1:40 “all PowerBI reports related to purchase and account payable process here available”
- 2:34 “you have nice charts payable information payable performance so this one is about top five vendors There’s four different charts you can switch to”
Disclaimers in the video
- 0:58 coming-later: this will be available for 27.1. So that means from November
Presenters (as heard): Alexander Totoich.