Business
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Once You Automate AP – Would You Do It Again?
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Recently I completed a study of 400 company that have automated their accounts payable process. When I do studies I try as hard as I can to make things simple so I can get a maximum response. This time I decided to ask them one question: “If you had to do it all over again…
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After The paper Is Gone In AP – When Do The Questions Stop? #APAutomation
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As someone who has spent a lot of time either helping organizations change or doing the change, I have developed a pretty long list of what I like to call “key indicators”. Key Indicators These are actions, conversations, or questions that tell me where a person or a group really is in the process of…
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3 Things To Know About People Before You Automate AP
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I have been an Accounts Payable Automator since 2000. A lot has changed from that time. In the early days (I sound so old) the biggest conversation I had with people was about the security of the internet and how the internet was a legitimate place to store documents like invoices. Times Have Change? The more I…
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This Week – Southern California #LiveEvent
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This week I am very excited to be participating in the annual AvidXchange User Form (AUF) being held in beautiful, sunny Costa Mesa California. If you are able to make the event I will be speaking Tuesday afternoon… answering the questions, “Could Steve Jobs Run An Accounting Department?” Departure It is a little of a…
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As An Accounting Professional – What Did You NOT Go To School For? #APAutomation
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If you read my articles you will know that most of my writing is written from a positive perspective. This article, however, I wanted to write about a conversation I had with one of my AP Automation buddy that took a negative turn. Picture This My friend was faced with expanding to a group of…
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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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4 Things that will help you know if your current process is ready for AP Automation
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I consider myself a person that does a lot of preparing. To give you an example my family and I moved about 8 months ago and I had a detailed project plan with an attached Spreadsheet that nobody but me paid attention to. In the end we moved but I think the rest of the…
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With AP Automation, Is Cost The Most Important Factor? – 1 Sad Story.
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I think I would turn off an entire group of readers if I wrote that cost wasn’t important. Cost is the way we establish value for things. Cost helps up benchmark and prioritize projects within the business world. Cost is very important, but today I am going to use a real life example to help…
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Best of Breed and Accounts Payable Automation
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Earlier this week I wrote an article about workflow and capture shouldn’t be separate. You can go back and review the post, but the long and short of it is, if you separate the two your expense will go up greatly, that’s why it’s important to find a service provider that can do both well.…