• Finding Revenue in Your AP Automation Process

  1. Significant revenue can be found by identifying opportunities to improve Accounts Payable automation. By optimizing workflows at key milestones, these efficiencies can reduce your costs and time of manual entry and help you take advantage of early payment discounts.


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  2. Multi-Channel Capture & Transformation

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. Paper invoices constitute less than 50% of my company's total invoices
    2. 2. My company’s current AP system supports invoice capture via mobile device
    3. 3. Our system automatically recognizes over 80% of incoming invoice content
  3. Workflow Automation & Best Practices

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. Invoices rarely sit for more than two days waiting for an approver to review
    2. 2. Workflows are modifiable based upon unique business needs
    3. 3. Our system automatically escalates an invoice when certain conditions are triggered
  4. Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) Integration

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. Our current AP solution integrates with all our ERP applications
    2. 2. Flexibility to adapt to other ERPs is a priority for our current solution
    3. 3. Our AP automation solution required no customization to integrate with our ERP system
  5. Analytics

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. My company’s current system provides full end-to-end invoice processing visibility
    2. 2. We can develop unique Key Performance Indicators (KPI) based on business requirements
    3. 3. Our analytics can provide compliance and segregation of duty information
  6. Deployment Options

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. We plan to deploy our AP solution in the cloud
    2. 2. At least a 98.5% uptime service level agreement (SLA) for AP is required
    3. 3. All of our deployed AP automation software is provided by a single vendor
  7. Service & Support

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. We are satisfied with the support provided by our vendor
    2. 2. Our AP solution has a support portal that allows users to create and track tickets
    3. 3. Our AP support solution includes a comprehensive knowledge base
  8. Supplier Interactions

    Please answer each question based upon how much you agree with the statement.

    (1 = strongly agree; 5 = strongly disagree)

    1. 1. Our current solution includes a self-service supplier portal
    2. 2. A supplier portal would save transaction and communication costs
    3. 3. Capabilities such as dynamic discounting are important
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