Automation is ruling the accounts payable industry for years and this year, artificial intelligence and robotics will play a key role in AP. Artificial Intelligence (AI) The usage of artificial intelligence in accounts department may seem something like out of fiction, but that’s actually what going to happen in 2017.

Unfortunately, one can easily take advantage of accounts payable processes as they get buried in the mass of hundreds to thousands of invoice submissions. All these will make the accounting process more vulnerable to fraud and overtime and it can become quite a costly problem. Avoiding invoice fraud may not

If your accounts payable department is not adding value to your business, it is evident that you need to change the way it works. The fact is that the accounts department plays a key role in any business and to get the best value from the function, it is better

Finance teams are undergoing a rapid change in organizations of all sizes. With technology on the rise, automation takes the job of accounting & administration and finance leaders will work to set the business strategy. Today, the finance industry is recognized as a center of business intelligence. The following are

Every year, you look at trends for how to manage business processes better. Accounts payable processes is one key functional area in business that still needs perfection. One technology that is helping business with accounts payable is the cloud. In 2016, most businesses have adopted cloud technology, making it easy

While every business wants to automate back-office processes, the ultimate goal is to control invoice and spending processes. Automated accounts payable processes allow organizations to improve processes instead of depending on manual efforts. Automated accounts payable software not only controls the invoice routing process but also reduces processing times, decreases

Financial managers are expected to have greater control and visibility over the entire procure-to-pay processes. As the P2P process is one complex business process, businesses need to take an integrated approach to free up working capital and create more agile finance operations. This can be achieved by making e-procurement and

Although AP is not the key focus of CFOs’ day-to-day activities, leveraging the power of AP automation can turn this department from a cost center to a revenue generator. However, CFOs should consider four things to realize the full value that accounts payable software brings to the business: Take advantage

When it comes to direct spend, there are so many controls in procurement and accounts payable. The purchase of goods depends on the company, however, to run the day-to-day operations of the business, you have to effectively manage the indirect spend. Insights on indirect spend are lacking due to decentralization

Technology has revolutionized the way business processes work. A part of it is intelligence capture technology, which is a rule-centric and data-centric approach, wherein invoice settings for all the countries, currencies, tax rates, and business rules will be entered into the system. Automated accounts payable software would extract key information