August 1st 2018

We're pleased to announce the release of Norming Resource Manager 2018.

RM2018 comes with a brand new mobile app, makes big improvements on Purchase Requisition and A/P Invoice Requisition functionalities, 

and separates the display and permission control for submitter and approver for the transactions in the ESS Portal, below please find the details: 

Overall: 
1. Enhances the Purchase Requisition functionality with the following improvements.
   1.1 Add G/L accounts permission control in Purchase Type.
   1.2 Provide the ability to limit users to access the purchase vendor related items (items defined in P/O Vendor Contract Cost or I/C Vendor Details)
   1.3 Add posted and Rejected status
   1.4 Add the Post button to transfer the PR documents to PO module, PR documents can be manually posted or automatically posted during transfer to backend application.
   1.5 Allow to reject the PR documents to a specific step.
   1.6 Add Vendor Item Number & Manufacture's Item Number columns.
   1.7 Show more details on the approval list.
   1.8 Approver can add/delete line items.
   1.9 Allow to import/edit/reject the requisition entry via the backend application

2. Enhances the A/P Invoice Requistion functionality with the following improvements.
  2.1 Supports unlimited number of A/P invoice requisition types to specify the following information:
    2.1.1 Specific approval workflow.
    2.1.2 Whether and how to control access to Vendors. 
    2.1.3 Whether and how to control access to invoice requisition types. 
    2.1.4 Add new approval role: Vendor Account Manager

  2.2. Provides the ability to define specific approvers with SQL query to be applied in the workflow.
  2.3. Provides the ability to define specific variables with SQL query to be applied in the conditional workflow.

3. Add note column at detail level for Standard mode timesheet. 

4. Integrate Leave with PJC

Back-end Application: 
1. Improve the Workflow Preview 

2. Add new variables in Leave Accrual/Reset formula: Employee Group, Division, Region, Department, Cost Center, Job

3. Improve the Billing Fuctionality
  3.1 Allow to pass the Optional Fields from RM billing to AR Invoice.
  3.2. Add division/Region/Department/Cost Center/Job column in billing entry detail.

4. Allow to filter the Team Member by Supervisor in project.


Front-end Application: 
1. Seperate the display and permission control for submitter and approver for the following transactions: Purchase Requisition, A/P Invoice Requisition, Expense Report, Timesheet, Travel Request.
2. Improve Custom Report to be compatible with the Sage 300 report.
3. Improve the Finder description.

Mobile Application: 
1. Change the App name to RM ePortal.
2. Develop new UI.
3. Add Approval/Rejection function for Custom Requisition
4. Add PJC Category column in Timehseet.