Automation can cut accounts payable costs by 40 to 60 percent. But in today’s complex business environment, deploying a solution for all of your users and systems can be a huge challenge.
Join us for this live webinar to explore the benefits of automated accounts payable processing with workflow logic that resides outside the SAP system and inside the cloud. You’ll learn ways to extend efficient and consistent invoice approval processing beyond the walls of your office and the bounds of your ERP environment, giving every participant anywhere in the organization access to one easy-to-use tool.
2. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
Esker Overview
SAP-certified integration
50% of Esker customers run SAP®
solutions
Specific content mappings to sales order
management module of SAP ERP 6.0
Document feedback in the SAP interface
Dedicated R&D team focused on SAP solutions
Patented DeliveryWare Rules technology
Software as a Service (SaaS) pioneer
Esker is an SAP customer
SAP is an Esker customer
Serving SAP customers is Esker’s top priority
Esker’s objective: offer SAP customers the best
document process automation solutions
Highlights Worldwide Presence
3. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
In this 60-minute webinar:
The Manual AP Process
What AP Automation Looks Like
Cloud-Based AP Automation
Solution Demonstraton
Customer Story
Q & A
4. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
THE MANUAL AP
PROCESS
Accounts Payable:
5. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
Accounts Payable Objectives
Accurate and timely closingAccurate and timely closing
Avoid late payment fees and capture
early payment discounts
Avoid late payment fees and capture
early payment discounts
Minimize vendor communication timeMinimize vendor communication time
Keep the supply chain running smoothlyKeep the supply chain running smoothly
Solution = Automation
Provide high level of serviceProvide high level of service
6. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
Open Mail Key-in Invoice
Accounts Payable
Manager Approves PO Created
Your Supplier
Goods Delivered,
Invoice Created
Goods Receipt Manager Approves
Archive
Invoice
Purchase Request
Manual AP Process (PO)
7. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
Vendor
Invoice
Cycle
Who Feels AP Pain?
8. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
In this 60-minute webinar:
The Manual AP Process
What AP Automation Looks Like
Cloud-Based AP Automation
Solution Demonstraton
Customer Story
Q & A
9. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
WHAT
AUTOMATION
LOOKS LIKE
Accounts Payable:
10. Kicking AP Workflow Out of Your SAP System and Into the Cloud
Accounts Payable
ESKER ON DEMAND
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Before we get started, I’d like to tell you a little about Esjker – who we are and what we do. Esker has been recognized by Gartner, IDC and other analysts as a key player in the market for document process automation solutions. We’ve helped well-known companies such as Microsoft, Whirlpool, and many others automate business-critical processes. We’re a global company with 24 years of practical experience, including and a long history of innovation in fax technology. Esker specializes in the cash conversion cycle, automating sales orders, accounts receivables purchasing, and accounts payable from end to end to drive productivity, efficiencies, and profits. With regard to SAP, Esker is a long-standing SAP Software Partner with certified integration. Esker uses SAP applications for its own business, and SAP corporate uses Esker solutions in its operations. Our priority is to serve SAP customers with the highest quality solutions available on the market. We have an R&D team dedicated to SAP solutions, and our customers benefit from the depth of SAP knowledge. As a result, Esker offers the only SAP-certified solution that can do both inbound and outbound document automation equally well. Esker has a patent on the core technology behind its document process automation solutions. And we’ve been a pioneer in Software as a Service.
In this webinar I will walk you through: The Manual AP Process What AP Automation Looks Like Cloud-Based AP Automation Taking Automation Beyond AP
With all the time spent dealing with the great paper chase of AP, and all the problems associated with it, it can be difficult to focus on the key objectives of most AP departments, which are … Achieving accurate and timely closings Avoiding late payment fees and capturing early payment discounts Minimizing vendor communication time Keeping the supply chain running smoothly Providing high levels of service The means to solve this is through automation.
I’m going to review the steps that are taken during a typical inbound invoice process. The process I will describe is for a typical commercial invoice that was generated from a Purchase Order issued by the company. This process does change depending on the type of invoice you receive, and whether it was a PO or non-PO generated invoice — but for the sake of simplicity we’ll just focus on a typical PO invoice for now. Go through process …
The need to optimize the vendor invoice cycle ... CFO: Cost of AP is too high. Supplier: Wants partners with whom it is easy to do business CEO: Capital and material costs are too high AP: Difficulty in responding to inquiries from suppliers Buyer: Cannot leverage cash discount to lower supply cost
In this webinar I will walk you through: The Manual AP Process What AP Automation Looks Like Cloud-Based AP Automation Taking Automation Beyond AP