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Most CFOs Don’t Know There Are Problems in Accounts Payable
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This statement would of course only apply to those companies that are big enough to have a division between AP and senior management. I would hate to know of a company where the CFO and the Director of AP are the same person and they didn’t know there were problems. Once Upon A Time I…
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When AP Automation Isn’t Good Enough
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What? AP Automation is always good enough? Well, I don’t like to bring this topic up but AP Automation is not always a fit. I Have Been Thinking That’s right… scary. My second book, which should have been my first book, called The Argument to Automate, has been what I like to call a commercial…
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Dynamics GP & AP Automation – Solving Real Life Problems
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One of the most difficult problems to solve are the problems you don’t know you have. As an accounts payable automator since 2000, I have personally witnesses thousands of companies realize they had problems and didn’t even know. The purpose of AP Automation is to solve real life problems. When a company initially looks at…
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My Own Personal Approval Process – 14 Years In The Making
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I don’t do a lot of approving, however for the last 14 years I have been helping companies improve their approval process, so I thought I would give you a little historical timeline of AP Automation changes over the last 14 years. But first… Recently my company has just hired a new accounts payable person. I…
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Are There Certain Invoices You Can’t Automate?
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When people start their AP Automation journey (I like to refer to it as a journey, because of its ongoing nature) there are a few generalizations that they start with. A few of them are, “Our vendor are too small for electronic invoices”, Our process is too complex for AP Automation” and “There are certain…
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What Did 400 AP Automated Companies Say They Would Have Done Better
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I have written a little bit about this. Recently I produced an eBook on this subject, calling it the 7 1/2 Things I Wish I Would Have Known Before Automating. It’s not on my site yet, but will be soon. The Point Experience is the best teacher. Over the course of six years I have…
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The Mid-Market and #APAutomation
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I have made it no secret that I work with a lot of companies in the middle market. I believe, because of traveling across the country speaking at any event that will have the slight bit of interest in Accounts Payable Automation, that large companies are automated. Therefore, attention has turned to mid-market companies (it’s…
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Has Technology Past Your Company By? #APAutomation – 3 Things
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I feel bad for low tech people. If you think of it, being low tech is not so bad… you get to watch a lot more TV, take walks and have more face time with people… that’s face to face time… not Apple’s version of FaceTime. The Setup I have the fortune of talking with…
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6 Trends of the Accounts Payable Automation Universe
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My wife gets a kick out of me trying on hats, you know the “one size fits all” variety. The reason she thinks it’s funny is because they never fit my head. It makes so much sense to her that my head is always way too big for the one size fits all hats. In…
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When it Comes to AP Automation – I’m I a Cloud or No Cloud Company? – 4 Things
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I thought I was so clever when I wrote an article about my dad telling me to keep my head out of the clouds when I was a kid. Now, thanks to cloud computing my head is always in the cloud. I don’t own a single device that has a single file I am working on.…