2. Microsoft Implements Your Vision
What’s New GP2016
Microsoft Implements Your Vision

3. System Wide Changes
BI Enhancements
Financial Enhancements
Distribution Enhancements
Project Accounting Enhancements
Payroll Enhancements
Draft of new features in GP2016 R2 (expected release Q4 2016)
Next Steps

4. System Wide Changes Web Client enhancements
Additional browser and mobile device support
Open Web Client windows using search
Ability to scan multiple pages
Word templates for batch approval workflow
Workflow condition management
Workflow reassignment notifications
Configurable OData Service points added
OData Service deployment enhancements

5. System Wide Changes
Web Client Enhancements

6. System Wide Changes
Web Client Enhancements

7. Additional Browser support
System Wide Changes
Additional Browser support
HTML 5 support for browsers and mobile devices including IPAD and Android Tablets
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Edge
Safari
Chrome

8. Ability to scan multiple pages
System Wide Changes
Ability to scan multiple pages
Word templates for batch approval workflow
Provides ed edit list for
General Ledgers
Payables
Receivables
When you’re using the scan function that’s part of the Document Attachment feature, you now can scan more than one
page at a time if you’re using a document feeder
The edit lists can be ed to an approver to provide complete information about the transactions in the batches
before approving the workflow step.

9. Workflow condition management.
System Wide Changes
Workflow condition management.
New options are available for automatically processing workflows when something in the workflow doesn’t meet
specified conditions. If a condition is not met, the workflow can continue to the next step or it can be rejected.

10. Workflow reassignment notifications
System Wide Changes
Workflow reassignment notifications
New options are available for automatically processing workflows when something in the workflow doesn’t meet
specified conditions. If a condition is not met, the workflow can continue to the next step or it can be rejected.

11. System Wide Changes
OData deployment enhancements

12. System Wide Changes
OData enhancements

13. Business Intelligence enhancements
Import and export SmartLists from Smartlist Designer
SmartLists created in SmartList Designer have default columns defined in the SmartList
Create SmartList from the Favorite using SmartList Designer
Export numbers to Excel, formatted as numbers
Power BI reports can be added to home pages

14. Import and export SmartLists from SmartList Designer
BI Enhancements
Import and export SmartLists from SmartList Designer
Now you can export and import SmartList definitions that have been created with SmartList Designer from one install
to another. This is handy for partners who create SmartLists for one customer, then import them into an implementation
for another customer. Customers can use the same functionality to export and import SmartLists across sites or
divisions.
Previously Numbers were exported to Excel as Text

15. BI Enhancements
Create SmartList from the Favorite using SmartList Designer

16. BI Enhancements
SmartLists created in SmartList Designer have default columns defined in the SmartList Options window

17. Export numbers to Excel, formatted as numbers
BI Enhancements
Export numbers to Excel, formatted as numbers
Previously Numbers were exported to Excel as Text

18. Power BI reports can be added to home pages
BI Enhancements
Power BI reports can be added to home pages
The reports link directly to your Power BI home page and you may drill back from your GP homepage to the complete dashboard. Demonstration

19. Financial Enhancements
Budget import exception report
Scotia Bank EFT format added as a default EFT file format
Analytical Accounting user access settings
Payables batch credit card payment option
Edit attachments that flow to transactions
Deposit cash receipts batches automatically

20. Financial Enhancements
Budget import exception report

21. Financial Enhancements
Payables batch credit card payment option

22. Financial Enhancements
Edit attachments that flow to transactions

23. Financial Enhancements
Deposit cash receipts batches automatically

24. Distribution Enhancements
All-in-one document view for Purchasing (2015 R2), Sales and Inventory transactions
Prepay purchase order total
Now includes Freight, Taxes and miscellaneous charges.

25. Project Accounting Enhancements
Project expenses – document attachments
Project Accounting fields in Purchase Requisition Entry
Add Unit Cost field in PTE Employee Expense window
Project Time Entry Edit List added

26. Payroll Enhancements
Inactive pay codes lookup option
Enhanced Payroll posting accounts setup

27. Draft 2016 R2 enhancements System Financial
PowerBI in Web Client Home Page
Make Smartlist Designer SmartLists available in Advanced Lookups
Show user name in message “Batch is being edited by another user”
One Drive for ing documents from GP
SmartList favorite protection
Financial
Intercompany Bank Transfers
Payables EFT payments to hit Bank Rec module in lump sum
Safe Pay file can pull name on check instead of name from vendor master

28. Draft 2016 R2 enhancements Distribution Payroll
Add Bar Code field to Item maintenance
Link Credit Card Invoices to Original Invoices
Cancel PO when linked to a Requisition
Payroll
Track history on Termination / Rehire Dates
Turn off Garnishment reports in Posting setup

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