For the Finance Department’s Accounts Payable team struggling with manual paper-based processes, automation is not straightforward.
Working with too many paper documents, keying-in data contained in those documents, validating extracted data against data spread across multiple applications, all lead to considerable headaches, including lengthy approval cycles, late payments, weak supplier and buyer relationships, and missed discounts. Moreover, this effort comes at a cost, affecting time-to-value or resulting in over-staffing.