ACH Implementation

We are implementing ACH (currently a check shop) for AP and are looking for advise on how everyone sends their remittance information to the supplier. I've scanned through past posts and it appears to be two responses, MHC or a homegrown email communication.

All comments and ideas appreciate !

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unknown

We recently implemented AP ACH as well and we're using MHC's solution to send an email with a PDF attachment.

mguevara

We also implemented AP ACH last year and are using MHC's solution to send an email with PDF attachment. We already had MHC for check printing, so this was an easy setup for remittance.

robert-canham

Our solution is through Wells Fargo. We send them the ACH information with remittances and they send the info to the vendor via email.

unknown

We use a homegrown solution, but it uses secure banking transmission standards. Lawson's ACH output file "AP160ACHTAPE_SEQ" is renamed to an appropriate name, one unique name per bank account, then transmitted via SFTP. (We use WS_FTP Professional from IpSwitch, which can be scripted). The SFTP setup includes multiple levels of passwording, encryption, and security keys. We do use MHC, but only for printing physical laser checks.

unknown

Hi, I am trying to gather information on how to send remittance information to vendors from AP. We use MHC as well and run AP160 to send ACH files to the bank. I was reading through this discussion and saw Derek Keith and MichelleRue have MHC as well. Would you be willing to share details on how this process works. Did you have to implement a new module from MHC?

thanks.

unknown

MHC sends our remittance information, gathered from the AP160, along with our ACH information to our bank.

mguevara

We send the ACH Files from Lawson to the Bank, and then we use MHC Document express eRemit module to email the ACH information to the vendor directly from Document Express.

unknown

We send the ACH file to the bank through SFTP (AP160) we then send the remittance to vendors through MHC.

sweta-priyadarshini

We don't use MHC, but we send ACH / remittance information to our bank via SFTP using public/private keys so that someone doesn't have to upload files separately to the bank.

unknown

I heard IPA/Process flow is also an option to to email vendors remittance information. Has any one tried that approach? If so, can you share how that works once the AP160 is run?

thanks!

Raymundo Romero-Ontiveros

Hi Derek,

We are trying to do the same to implement AP ACH, but we have two types of SEC to send, PPD and CTX and reading on some documentation than I was able to found, what I see is than the AP160 will generate the files with the PPD format and the AP161 will do as CTX format , is there any way in Lawson to mix both codes on the same file? or we have to split in 2 different transaction codes (one for each screen) and then send these 2 output files to the bank? (We are on the Version 10.0.9.0.1501 )

Thank you so much

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unknown

I believe you're going to have to have two output files to the bank. Also, when we were having issues with sending CCD+, as a workaround we had to manually update the type to be CTX. The CTX file that was produced from AP161 didn't look anything like what our bank needed. There was eventually a patch released that fixed the CCD+ issue we were experiencing.

Raymundo Romero-Ontiveros

Thank you Derek!

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