Discover our new releases

• New change log - we're excited to introduce an enhanced functionality for our change log.  While we were already tracking very basic user activities before, we've revamped the way events are displayed, providing a cleaner, more organized view, and most importantly, fulfilling global audit standards!  We've refined the display of workflow block activations, approval actions, and skipped workflow blocks to provide clearer insights into your processes. Additionally, content changes and status updates to requisitions are meticulously tracked and logged.
• Export summary of request - introducing our new request summary generation functionality, a powerful addition to your workflow toolkit.  With just one click, users can now export essential request details, including comprehensive approval activities, pricing insights, and more. This functionality empowers users to seamlessly store crucial information in their preferred data management suite, such as SharePoint, or efficiently share it with external stakeholders, like suppliers. We can also already teaser that we are working towards enabling automatic sending of these summaries via e-mail directly from Lhotse. Thereby, we will continue to elevate your workflow efficiency and communication capabilities.. Stay tuned!

• New SAP Connector to create PRs/POs in SAP - implemented a standardized SAP connector that enhanced our integration with SAP to streamline data collection and transfer of data. This update enhances the integration process and ensures more efficient communication between our platform and most common SAP systems. Thereby, it significantly reduces the implementation effort required by the customer as well as increasing overall customer onboarding speed, reflecting our commitment to continuous enhancement and optimization.
• Product & Offer Section 2.0 - introducing an enhanced product and offer section to address user experience challenges. Users will now only see the offer table and the option to add offers when relevant, making the request process even more intuitive and catering the platform to specific customer needs. Dynamic looping enables requestors to copy re-occuring values across products & offers with one click. Enhanced integration, improved form logic, and streamlined data entry provide a more intuitive and efficient experience for the user.

• Unite catalogue integration - introduced the capability to integrate Mercateo Unite in Lhotse with minimal implementation effort by the customer, enabling requestors to search for products in the Unite catalog while filling out forms. Users can trigger a catalog search directly within in the form, view search results and product details in a modal, and add suitable products with one click to the request. Once the request is approved, the product details including price, vendor, and product id will be automatically transferrred to your ERP system.
• MS Teams as starting point - implemented the Lhotse MS Teams App that allows requestors to initiate requests directly within MS Teams, without navigating to the Lhotse platform first. The Lhotse Teams App automatically synchronizes and displays published forms in your tenant. The user can then select a suitable form directly within teams before being automatically redirected to the respective section on the Lhotse platform.

Workflow tasks

Introduced the ability to integrate task actions in workflows, including prerequisites for process continuation, either as standalone tasks or within approval stages. Users can allocate tasks to designated individuals, ensuring accountable task completion prior to workflow progression, hence adding an additional layer to our workflow component. Tasks are the perfect way to further structure the request process, and ensure clear accountability, enhanced collaboration, transparency, and efficiency.

Overview of Request

Approvers now have a comprehensive view of pending requests. The newly introduced side panel displays a summary of the most important request information without having to navigate though all request details.  Approvers can view completed, current, and pending approval steps. Based on their permissions, they now also have the option to edit or view specific request details

Multiple products in form

Requestors can now include and manage multiple products within a single form, thereby even further improving the intake process. This enhancement also includes improvements in how inputs are displayed, the overall layout, and how data is presented. Moreover, users can now effortlessly upload files for each specific product section as part of this update.

Forms

• Customizable forms - create effortlessly forms tailored to your individual request processes through our intuitive, user-friendly form builder without requiring any coding or design expertise. If you still happen to need support in creating your customized forms, our customer excellence team will be more than happy to assist you.‍
• Various question formats - include a range of interactive question formats for respondents, including text, multiple choice, dropdown, master data, file upload, date, and time.‍
• Conditional logic - tailor questions based on previous answers given by respondents
• ‍Auto-population - enable automatic population of form fields based on previously entered information or user default information.‍
• Form reusability - easily duplicate and reuse forms, saving time and effort when creating similar forms or recurring processes. Perfectly guide the request creation process with our highly adaptable Lhotse Forms. With an array of intuitive features, you can easily design and customize forms to capture the necessary information for each request type and modify their appearance to align them with your organization's visual identity. No coding or technical expertise is needed.

Workflows

• Enhanced workflow configuration - tailor and fine-tune workflows without writing a single line of code. Set up rules and conditions that automatically trigger actions or routing within the workflow to streamlined the entire request process.
• Multistep approvals - implement (simultaneous) multistep approval processes to ensure proper authorization and adherence to company policies.
• Communication management - manage and track communication related to requests within the tool, ensuring seamless collaboration among team members.

Other

• Alerts/notifications - receive real-time alerts and notifications regarding task updates, deadlines, reminders and important milestones.
• Activity dashboard - gain a comprehensive view of the workflow status, pending tasks, and track the overall progress of requests in real-time through an interactive dashboard.
• Audit trails - maintain a detailed record of actions taken within the workflow tool for maximum transparency and compliance / accountability purposes.
• Dashboard - gain a centralized view of all requests, empowering users to track and stay updated on the status quo of their request in real-time.
• Search and filtering - quickly locate specific requests, tasks, or documents through the intuitive search and filter functionality on the dashboard.