5 Strategies to Achieving Optimum AP Efficiency and Effectiveness

Few AP leaders need to be sold on the need for automation. But what’s not so clear to AP leaders is the best way to do it.  Whether your AP department is completely manual, partially automated, or on its way to completing the last mile of automation, achieving digital touch-free processing of invoices and payments to suppliers should be your goal. During this webinar, our speakers will show you how to get there. They will lay out five proven strategies for moving your AP department closer to becoming fully digital, no matter where it currently stands on its automation journey.   

What you will learn:

• How to assess where your department sits on its AP automation journey
• The risks of letting your AP department become trapped in a semi-automated no-man’s land
• Five strategies for moving your AP department closer to achieving touch-free processing
• Key considerations when evaluating an AP automation tech stack

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Derek Cheng
Senior Director, Corporate Marketing, Tipalti

Derek Cheng is the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Tipalti, the leader in global payables automation. He leads the development of content and is the co-host of the Business Finance Friends podcast. He's authored multiple white papers and articles in the areas of finance operations and is an avid technologist for back-office processes spanning a career of over 25 years.