Why AP Automation Initiatives Often Fail—and What to Do About It, Part 3

In Part 2 of this series, we discussed how important it is to clean up messy, catch-as-catch-can processes in AP before attempting to automate. Because AP is the last touchpoint in a long chain of potential inefficiencies, trying to automate AP without addressing the larger organizational problems can doom any such initiative before it even gets off the ground. But where to start?

Step 3: Aligning AP, Finance and Purchasing

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It probably is no great surprise that Purchasing often views AP’s tas