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6/18/10

Hot List: Top Ten Factors Driving an Interest in AP Automation

by Sushmitha Koka

Invoice automation has become a hot topic amongst finance circles. A significant shift is beginning to shake the traditional corporate invoice and payment management paradigm. Innovative organizations are seeing tremendous potential around invoice automation - not just cost containment and productiv...

6/4/10

A New Flight Plan: Insights from Southwest Airlines’ Total AP Overhaul

by Brad_Josephson

Southwest Airlines had a long-running legacy process to handle their invoices. Their mainframe, which inconveniently consisted of several departments, dated back to 1986 and was to blame for their 14-day invoice processing system. AP supervisors Cicely Lopez and Michelle Price will discuss the overh...

2/22/10

Outsourcing goes Hand in Hand with Electronic Invoicing

by Sushmitha Koka

One of the major barriers hindering electronic invoicing initiatives is gaining supplier adoption. Persuading suppliers to change their processes to align with buyer’s needs is a costly and time-consuming process, and success depends largely on the buyers’ ability to present a compelling value propo...

2/17/10

Jumpstart Your AP Automation Project

by Henry Ijams

So you want to move to invoice automation – imaging, workflow, or even electronic invoicing. Problem is, your CFO, Controller, AP Manager, or IT staff hasn’t bought in. You’ve got a plan, but don’t have the buy-in to start. So what is the surefire way get your project approved? PayStream has develo...

1/20/10

Electronic Invoicing: The Secret Sauce that Makes the Recipe a Hit

by Sushmitha Koka

With so many sophisticated invoice and payment management solutions and services available in the marketplace today, why aren’t companies making headway in better managing their AP processes? Why aren’t more companies able to remove paper from their organizations, decrease processing costs and incre...