Managing invoices centrally, natively, and seamlessly

Easing your accounts payable team’s workload lets them focus on more strategic activities, and nearly touchless invoice processing is a great way to get there. What’s more, with better visibility and efficiency, you can reduce costs and risks while improving compliance. Process invoices faster and more accurately with SAP Ariba Central Invoice Management​, a unified invoice solution built on SAP Business Technology Platform that provides a centralized view of all invoices from across your organization.

• Visibility into all invoices across all channels
• Paper and PDF invoice automation with embedded OCR
• Smooth integration deployed on SAP Business Technology Platform

Key benefits

Improve invoice processing speed and accuracy

Quickly capture invoice data from multiple suppliers with a single, user-friendly solution for scanning, validating, and processing invoices.

View all invoices across all channels

Make invoices across all channels visible to your accounts payable team by sharing one common worklist and an automated invoice processing workflow.

Manage invoices natively

Process invoices with as little human effort as possible using machine learning, document information extraction, master data, and more services to come.

Key features

Embedded OCR capabilities

• Invoice capture through embedded OCR using the Document Information Extraction service
• Simplified drag-and-drop user experience for uploading invoice images
• Automated PDF e-mail services

Centralized worklist

• One single view for accounts payable team
• Visibility of all invoices across all channels and the organization
• Streamlined processing and approval, with prioritization based on status, company code, and workflow

Open, extensible, and future-proof platform

• Intelligent technologies to manage invoices smoothly and natively
• Services-based architecture, leveraging SAP BTP services, such as machine learning, document management, master data, OCR, and more
• Single, extensible platform optimized for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition (with other ERP optimizations planned)