Procure-to-Pay Automation
The journey to digitalized procurement starts with invoice automation to make it all just happen.
The best approach to Procure-to-Pay
When organizations take a procurement-centric approach to procure-to-pay (P2P) you risk delaying the realization of its benefits; creating significant cost exposure and fragmented financial processes.
Luckily, there is an alternative approach. You can address your procure-to-pay transformation from the other end by starting with Accounts Payable (AP).
By automating your AP first with Basware, you can:
- Cover all purchase order sources by integrating into any existing procurement or ERP system.
- Realize savings in under 12 months to fund your procurement transformation.
- Enable visibility and control of all spend categories and inform your digital procurement strategy.
This approach to procure-to-pay gives you the platform to continue your procurement transformation both from a data and technical perspective.
Take a high value, low risk approach to P2P by starting with invoice automation
Automation of Invoice Ingestion
Regardless of how suppliers send their invoices, our e-Invoicing solutions enable you to automate invoice capture and take the burden from your teams with 100% invoice data accuracy.
Touchless Accounts Payable Automation
Coding. Routing. Matching. Exception handling. Leave it to the AI! Without wasting time on manual steps, your team can focus on more strategic initiatives and less on tedious invoice tasks.
Increase Control with e-Procurement
The data in your invoice automation solution will allow you to identify where to focus your procurement transformation. Our state-of-the-art e-procurement solution is natively integrated to our invoice automation solution.
Basware solutions are a perfect fit for:
- Globally operating organizations with a desire to harmonize all invoice processes across all locations
- More than 50.000 invoice transactions per year, across multiple formats (for less invoices, see P2P for Mid-Market solutions)
- Finance Shared Service Centers with a need for speed
- Multi-ERP environments by integrating with any ERP
89%
Touchless processing
98%
First-pass match on PO-based invoices
85%
Paid on time
How our approach to P2P drives value for you
Improve your bottom line
Automating your processes with Basware empowers your teams to drive P&L and balance sheet improvements and to increase margins through optimized cashflow, early payment discounts and lower SG&A expenses
Minimize risks
Working with an experienced partner like Basware significantly reduces risk in your finance operations, from global e-invoice compliance and reliable audit trails to fraud protection.
Become your suppliers’ best customer
Make it easier for your suppliers to do business with you with no-registration invoice ingestion, timely payments, and transparent status information.
It’s early days but we’ve quickly been able to achieve 65% end to end ‘touchless’ automatic matching in North America. This significantly reduces paper processing and enhances our internal controls over a large portion of our spend.
Our new process creates savings by freeing up a lot of time. For us, what matters most is transparency, and making sure that people understand what they are approving.
We have increased the level of automation and seen a dramatic decrease in processing errors thanks to the automatic matching of invoices using automated rules.
How Invoice Lifecycle Management Delivers
Governed Autonomy
Autonomy you can defend. Set the limits, and ensure every AI action is explainable, auditable, and accountable by design.
Continuous Compliance
Compliance you can trust. Fiscal and commercial requirements are built into every invoice and update as mandates evolve.
Financial Integrity
Integrity you can prove. Every invoice verified for accuracy, completeness, and authenticity before payment and throughout its lifecycle.
Enterprise Control
Control you can act on. See 100% of invoices across every entity, ERP, and geography, with the authority to act on what you see.
Want to know how you can make it happen?
Book a consultation call with our solutions experts to discuss the benefits of Basware's P2P Automation solutions.
FAQs
What is Procure-to-Pay Automation?
Procure-to-Pay (sometimes referred to as Purchase-to-Pay and often abbreviated to P2P) includes the whole process from point of order to payment, spanning the activities of requisitioning, purchasing, receiving, paying for, and accounting for goods and services. As such, the entire P2P process consists of many individual processes that take place across different parts of the organization and involve many people. This introduces complexity and, at times, confusion.
If the P2P process is manual, it takes more time and effort and opens the door to human error. An automated P2P process, however, is designed for efficiency, minimizing potential errors, increasing transparency, and reducing overall costs.
What if I already have a procure-to-pay or procurement solution?
Basware is not a jealous provider. We have built a technical foundation on the concept of integration and ‘plug and play’ solutions. If you are using a different procurement solution to create POs or generating POs from your ERP – that’s no problem at all. Our superior integration capabilities will pull that PO data into Basware and automatically match your invoice to it.
Does Basware replace my ERP system?
An AP automation solution does not replace your ERP system(s) but complements them to automate all AP related processes.
If you’re like a lot of companies, you have multiple ERPs and back-office systems in use. To truly get control of enterprise spend and streamline operations in AP, these systems must communicate data to each other – and that should not be a manual process of data exporting and importing. If you want to get the most return on your investment, go with a AP automation solution that is designed to integrate with 250+ ERP systems simultaneously. Your life will be so much easier.