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Accounts Payable Automation: Efficiency within Reach

Written by Dan Rickert | Wed, Jan 27, 2021

With a remote workforce, automated invoice processing is key to success

The speed of business can't slow, even when you have a primarily remote workforce. That's why accounts payable automation, including automated invoice processing, is so essential these days. AT EO Johnson Business Technologies, our AP Automation experts make it simple for your business to transition to automated invoice processing, by providing the tools, training and guidance you need to leverage your existing technology and gain necessary efficiencies.

AP challenges and accounts payable automation solutions

The accounts payable sector navigates a unique set of challenges regularly. The good news is, AP automation solutions get at the core of these issues and address many inefficiencies of manual accounts payable processes.

So what does accounts payable automation deliver in terms of benefits? And how do we help you streamline your existing workflows? Let's take a look.

Accounts payable challenges

The pandemic has issued an entirely new set of hurdles for workplaces to overcome—but this also presents an opportunity to upgrade processes that are stuck in the "but we've always done it this way" conversation. Taking a hard look at the truth of dated processes can be enlightening and represent an opportunity for improvement.

If your business has been leaning on manual entry for accounts payable, you are certainly not alone. Yet manual processes yield a number of challenges for accounts payable. First there are the risks of and costs associated with human error, fraud, and inefficiencies, not to mention the enormous headache of lost or missing invoices. The stream of invoices and purchase orders can seem endless for your team, and paper filing systems as well as remote working can result in tiresome search and retrieval issues, and in some cases duplicate or late processing and payments.

Countless companies have already made the switch to accounts payable automation. If you're ready, EO Johnson can help you realize the many benefits of this essential process upgrade.

Accounts payable automation solutions

AP automation yields so many benefits to organizations ready to take the next step, from efficiency improvements to cost savings and more. First, accounts payable automation allows your staff to capture records, process requisitions and find information quickly. Documents can be automatically routed for approvals. Unwanted documents are flagged to be destroyed. And throughout the entire process, all IRS mandates are followed.

At EO Johnson Business Technologies, we provide the guidance and expertise to integrate automation into your accounts payable process flows seamlessly. We help our clients get there with Square 9 Softworks AP automation software, "Purchase to Pay AP Automation." Our team first gets to know your business and how your current process works, so we gain an in-depth understanding of the scope of your needs, including:

  • how your accounts payable needs to operate
  • approvals needed
  • data provided
  • your current system and the opportunities for efficiencies
  • the training necessary to get your staff up to speed
Is it time for accounts payable automation and automated invoice processing?

The experts at EO Johnson Business Technologies can help. For a free, no obligation overview of how we can help you leverage technology to improve your accounts payable process, complete this form below. We'll guide you to the next chapter of automated invoice processing and accounts payable automation.