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The Ultimate Accounts Payable Automation Guide

This IntelliChief Accounts Payable Automation Guide helps buyers select the right AP automation solution.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand the current challenges facing enterprise AP departments
  • Learn which AP automation features drive efficiency and ROI
  • Explore ERP integration best practices for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), JD Edwards, SAP ECC and S/4HANA, and Infor Global Solutions—platforms IntelliChief supports natively to ensure seamless, enterprise-grade automation.
  • Discover how to calculate the ROI of AP automation
  • Get expert insight to guide your automation journey from selection to implementation

Learn about key AP automation features, important and overlooked ERP integration considerations, and how to understand and calculate the return on your AP automation investment.

Why You Need This Accounts Payable Automation Guide

Modern, enterprise-scale Accounts Payable (AP) departments struggle with many challenges, including:

  • The surging cost of processing invoices
  • Large and growing volumes of complex transactions
  • A tight labor market and high training costs
  • Slow, cumbersome, and monotonous manual and paper-based processes
  • Invoices that arrive in more formats from a wider variety of channels than ever before
  • Messy approval and exception handling processes that create backlogs and bottlenecks
  • An inability to instantly track the status of an invoice and respond to vendor inquiries
  • How to deal with all the clumsy and costly paperwork associated with each transaction

These all result in supplier management and communication suffering, adding costs and potentially impacting every other department in the organization.

Clearly, AP is mission-critical to every business enterprise. But the complexity of the AP process has made cost-effective AP automation difficult to achieve – until now.

AI-enabled automation, combined with advanced ERP integration, has made it possible to fully automate the modern AP department. Accounts Payable automation now makes it possible to:

  • Reduce manual tasks
  • Lower costs
  • Minimize errors
  • Improve supplier relationships
  • Dramatically reduce the risk of disruption to core operations from AP backlogs, bottlenecks, and process failures
  • Recoup your investment and generate value – often in less than one year!

Achieving Financial Agility: A Buyer’s Guide to Modernizing AP Processes delivers strategic insight into selecting an AP automation platform that aligns with your ERP architecture and financial transformation goals to achieve world-class AP operational excellence.

This important buyer’s guide includes key insights into:

  • The current state of AP automation
  • Top features to consider when choosing an AP automation solution
  • ERP integration considerations
  • Calculating AP automation return on investment

Enterprises around the world are racing to embrace automation to compete in a high-stakes, global economy. According to Ardent Partners, best-in-class AP departments process invoices at 80% lower cost than their peers—highlighting the urgency and ROI potential of automation. And those that are slow to respond may find it impossible to catch up.

Take the Next Step Toward Smarter AP

Ready to make smarter, faster, and more cost-effective AP operations a reality? This guide offers the tools and strategies you need to modernize your workflows and unlock measurable value.

Have questions or want to see IntelliChief in action? Contact us today to speak directly with one of our experts or book a demo to explore how AI-enabled AP automation works inside your ERP.

Looking for a downloadable version? This comprehensive AP automation PDF is also available to guide your decision-making offline.


Modern, enterprise-scale Accounts Payable (AP) departments struggle with many challenges, including:

  • The surging cost of processing invoices
  • Large and growing volumes of complex transactions
  • A tight labor market and high training costs
  • Slow, cumbersome, and monotonous manual and paper-based processes
  • Invoices that arrive in more formats from a wider variety of channels than ever before
  • Messy approval and exception handling processes that create backlogs and bottlenecks
  • An inability to instantly track the status of an invoice and respond to vendor inquiries
  • How to deal with all the clumsy and costly paper associated with each transaction

As a result, supplier management and communication suffer, adding costs and potentially impacting every other department in the organization.

Clearly, AP is mission-critical to every business enterprise. But the complexity of AP process has made cost-effective AP automation difficult to achieve – until now.

AI-enabled robotic automation, combined with advanced ERP integration has made it possible to fully automate the modern AP department. AP automation now makes it possible to:

  • Eliminate work
  • Slash costs
  • Eliminate errors
  • Improve supplier relationships
  • Dramatically reduce the risk of disruption to core operations from AP backlogs, bottlenecks and process failures
  • Recoup your investment and generate value – often in less than one year!

Achieving Financial Agility: A Buyers Guide to Modernizing AP Processes provides important context and guidance for selecting an AP automation solution that meets all of your objectives and results in world-class AP operational excellence.

This important buyers guide includes key insights into:

  • The current state of AP automation
  • Top features to consider when choosing an AP automation solution
  • ERP integration considerations
  • Calculating AP automation return on investment

Enterprises around the world are racing to embrace automation to compete in a high-stakes, global economy. And those that are slow to respond may find it impossible to catch up. Download the guide and get started on your automation journey today.