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Measure What You Manage: How to Make The Case for AP Automation With ROI To Your CEO

by Erin Mills

Measure What You Manage: How to Make The Case for AP Automation With ROI To Your CEO

Technology plays a key role in almost all business processes, from marketing to payroll and even retirement funding. Accounts-payable (AP) automation is one such valuable tool, but many businesses find themselves wondering if it’s worth the switch.

Unlock AP Success: 3 Topics Every CFO Should Discuss With Their Controller

by Erin Mills

Unlock AP Success: 3 Topics Every CFO Should Discuss With Their Controller

A recent study showed that 80% of companies have been negatively impacted by the pandemic, with cash flow being a primary issue. Now more than ever, CFOs must embrace their new role as an architect of business value. Optimizing operational costs is key to that endeavor.

Efficiency and Intelligence Are AP’s Pandemic Game-Changers

by Erin Mills

Efficiency and Intelligence Are AP’s Pandemic Game-Changers

Although the pandemic began over 1.5 years ago, it continues to impact every enterprise function. In fact, 80% of organizations report being negatively impacted by the pandemic, according to an Emburse survey.

4 Tips for Month-End & Year-End Closing That Finance Managers Should Know

by Erin Mills

4 Tips for Month-End & Year-End Closing That Finance Managers Should Know

Anyone working on a finance team knows exactly how stressful accounting periods are. There are a ton of last-minute requests, unexpected bottlenecks, and unpredictable delays that arise from running both accounts payable and receivables while maintaining the highest quality and compliance standards.

Don’t Moose Around! Be the Best-in-Class Accounts Payable Team in 2022

by Matt Gahr

Don’t Moose Around! Be the Best-in-Class Accounts Payable Team in 2022

Have you seen this video of a moose on the loose blocking traffic on a highway? The lesson here is simple: your accounts payable function can’t have bottlenecks. And those bottlenecks will slow down processes and waste company time, money, and opportunities in 2022.

Using Your Data for Negotiations With Vendors

by Erin Mills

Using Your Data for Negotiations With Vendors

Maximize revenue. Minimize spending. That’s the key to financial success, right? While following that path is easier said than done, there is a quicker way to reduce your expenses right now: negotiate discounts with your vendors. For example, before the pandemic, major airlines like American Airlines and Delta Airlines offered corporate discounts, benefits, and services to large businesses. By showing them how often your employees paid for their services, you could negotiate meaningful discounts.

How I Did It: Modernizing Invoice Approval for a Rapidly-Growing Organization

How I Did It: Modernizing Invoice Approval for a Rapidly-Growing Organization

The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a diverse research and clinical care organization that includes four hospitals, two regional medical centers and a multitude of clinical care providers. In this guest blog post, Steve Kelly, UPHS’ director of disbursements, outlines how the organization lets business flow by delivering a mobile, highly-automated integrated expense and invoice automation solution.

How an Unfriendly Expense Submission Process can Negatively Impact Your Quarter-close

by Tim Wheatcroft

How an Unfriendly Expense Submission Process can Negatively Impact Your Quarter-close

A company that provides its employees with manual or cumbersome expense reporting solutions may be hurting itself in many ways. One which is often overlooked is that employees who procrastinate over submitting their expenses could jeopardize the accuracy of the quarter-close, which could have serious ramifications.

How Automating Invoice Processing can be a Shot in the Arm for Hospital Finance Teams

by Ali Mast

How Automating Invoice Processing can be a Shot in the Arm for Hospital Finance Teams

Hospitals typically receive a quarter of their invoices outside the PO system - often from smaller, local vendors. Processing these invoices manually can take thousands of hours and cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. What can hospitals do to streamline these processes and reduce administrative costs.

How Can Invoice Workflow Automation Work for Your Organization?

by Mandy Neske

How Can Invoice Workflow Automation Work for Your Organization?

Interest in back-office technology continues to increase as a way to control costs and increase productivity. What are the latest trends in the industry, and what benefits could it bring to the way your AP team processes invoices?

What Could Manual AP Processes Be Costing Your Organization?

by Dan Humbert

What Could Manual AP Processes Be Costing Your Organization?

We recently ran a webinar in conjunction with Vendorin, which discussed some of the challenges faced by CFOs with their accounts payables processes. As part of the webinar, we asked some questions to gauge the current state of invoice automation, and some of the bigger issues currently impacting the function. The upshot of our findings is that, although technology plays a significantly greater role in AP than just a few years ago, there’s still plenty of opportunity to improve efficiency.

Survival of the Fittest: Be Ruthless or Die

by Connie Moser

Survival of the Fittest: Be Ruthless or Die

When it comes to survival of the midsize firm, you have two choices. You can be ruthless. Or you can die. Time is your biggest resource and the one most often abused. Because of the precarious spot in which midsize companies are wedged, inefficient use of time will kill you every time.

3 Keys to Solving Common Invoice Headaches

by Jim Whitmore

3 Keys to Solving Common Invoice Headaches

An invoice from a vendor arrives in the day’s mail and sets off a complex process. First, the invoice envelope must be sorted and opened, the return envelopes and ads tucked inside discarded. From there, your company may scan the invoice or key in data and begin validating individual items. By the time the document reaches an approver for payment verification, it’s no mystery why processing paper invoices is often expensive, inaccurate and inefficient.

Why Your Organization Can’t Risk Expense Report Inaccuracies

by Serge Merkin

Why Your Organization Can’t Risk Expense Report Inaccuracies

Few would argue with the truism “Numbers don’t lie,” but inaccurate numbers can and do lie all the time. A good example is the vast number of inaccurate numbers that can enter an organization’s financial system via expense reports. Organizations that allow employees to write or type expenses into a form that is manually reviewed and re-entered into the accounting system by a staff member have introduced several opportunities to enter inaccurate information for each transaction.

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Our choice of Chrome River EXPENSE was made in part due to the very user-friendly interface, easy configurability, and the clear commitment to impactful customer service – all aspects in which Chrome River was the clear winner. While Chrome River is not as large as some of the other vendors we considered, we found that to be a benefit and our due diligence showed that it could support us as well as any large players in the space, along with a personalized level of customer care. Sally Abella, Director of Corporate Travel Harman International
We are excited to be able to enforce much more stringent compliance to our expense guidelines and significantly enhance our expense reporting and analytics. By automating these processes, we will be able to free up AP time formerly spent on manual administrative tasks, and enhance the role by being much more strategic. Ben Zastrow Zelle

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