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6 Surprising Facts About Accounts Payable Automation
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I like surprises. However I like them around my birthday or on vacations. Basically any time other than business. To put it another way, I don’t like surprise with it comes to business. The 8 Pitfalls When I wrote The 8 Pitfalls, I wanted to write a book that would help people not be so surprised…
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What Happens After You Say “Yes” To AP Automation? 3 Things
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I don’t know if I have ever written a more obvious headline, but I want to go way beyond implementing, and give you a glimpse of how the organization reacts to news that Accounts Payable Automation is going to take the paper invoices away. When? One of the initial things to think about is when…
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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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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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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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10 Approval Tips For People Who Hate Approving Invoices
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Hate is such a strong word, but in the real world not everyone in a company has the same passion and attention for approving invoices. For those people here are ten tips that will help them. Tips 10. No Paper – Well I had to start with this one being the AP Automation guy, but…
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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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With All This Electronic Stuff – What About Remittance?
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I have written a little about electronic payments or automating the payment process, but I had someone recently ask me about remittance. To Be Clear I really hate writing this, but I know there is a small group of readers that are new to the Accounts Payable and Payment world, so I want to make…
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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…