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Competition – Automation VS Document Management #APAutomation
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I have written a little about Accounts Payable Automation and Document Management, but I have never written about the two in context of competition. The next few days I am going to be writing about differences that you can evaluate as you choose an AP Automation service provider. My hope is, but the topics, I…
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Competition – The Best and Worst of AP Automation – 6 Points
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Something I say a lot, when working with a company is, if you talk to 20 different service providers about Accounts Payable Automation you will get 20 different answers (or opinions) on the definition of automation. The definition itself is not the problem, but if you don’t have a common ground (like a definition) then…
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What Does Time and Desire Have To Do With #APAutomation?
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I was thinking recently… that’s what I do… I was thinking about time and desire and what it has to do with AP Automation. Background I work with a lot of middle market companies. One interesting fact about a middle market company as opposed to a large market company is the ROI (return on investment). An…
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What’s Heavier a Ton of Paper Invoices or a Ton of Bricks? #APAutomation
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Well, happy Friday. I know looking back on this article it won’t be Friday, or it may be just by coincidence. Anyway, I am feeling a little “out of the box” because of the combination of events that are coming up (that I am not 100% prepared for) with spring fever, so today’s article is…
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With AP Automation There Are 4 Things People Realize
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Realization is a wonderful thing. I remember with my second child was about 10 months old, she couldn’t talk, but she could crawl. She would motor around the living room from end table to end table opening the little boxes that my wife had perfectly decorated. When she opened a box there was, to her,…
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With AP Automation is Industry Knowledge Important? 3 Things
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It is one of the things I ask when evaluating software… do you know my industry? That’s when the software provider say, “So, what is Accounts Payable Automation anyway?” Important? People, generally, believe their Accounts Payable process is unique. If you look at it from a high level, there are only so many ways to…
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3 Common Workflow Problems And There Solutions – #APAutomation
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Workflow, for those of you that don’t know, is the engine that powers Accounts Payable Automation. The definition of workflow is a predetermined electronic approval process. Electronic and predetermined are the two keys words of the definition. A Little Confusion Workflow can be confusion because it can mean both the approval process and the software. For…
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Process Improvement 101 = Everything a Beginner Should Know #APAutomation
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There is nothing wrong with being a beginner. There is something wrong with being a beginner and not wanting to tell anyone, and acting like you are a master. Even worst, if you think you are a master and tell everyone you are and try to boss people around, when really you are a beginner… Oh…
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The Red Rover – Red Rover – of AP Automation
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I once heard a comedian say that a school system was outlawing dodge ball because it made some student feel bad. He then said that if that was the case they should outlaw math. I don’t think dodge ball was nearly as bad as red rover. Red Rover For those of you that don’t know…
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8 Practices For Effective Approval Changes – #APAutomation
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Change can be such a dirty word in corporate America. I have found that when you really look at why a process is in place and when faced with changing that process, the people who are against the change are unable to give you a really good reason, other than “that’s the way we have…