Automating accounts payable to increase efficiency and compliance

Buying and invoicing is increasingly integrated and collaborative. You can keep pace by digitalizing and automating invoice management over a global business network. This delivers visibility and efficiency to capture more early-payment discounts and optimize working capital. The SAP Ariba Invoice Management solution can help you take the complexity out of your invoice-to-pay process and get to ok-to-pay with as little human intervention as possible. 

• Cloud deployment
• Automated invoice reconciliation and approval processes
• Network-based business rules to help ensure both contractual and regulatory compliance
• Intuitive tools for collaborating on early-payment discounts

Key benefits

Automate invoicing and realize new savings

Process more invoices faster and eliminate errors with nearly touch-free invoicing enabled by SAP Business AI and network-based rules.

Solve compliance problems around the globe

Deliver stronger compliance with contracts and purchase orders while meeting global regulatory requirements in virtually every country and currency.

Improve user experiences for maximum impact

Help users make the right decisions with intuitive tools and workflows configured for best practices while enabling effective, digital supplier collaboration.

Key features

Automated reconciliation and approval

• Route invoices through your electronic workflows automatically
• Eliminate approval delays by accelerating invoice processing with automated escalation and delegation
• Manage invoice exceptions through tolerance thresholds based on company policies and process non-PO invoices

Customizable workflows and user configuration

• Empower users with intuitive workflows preconfigured for best practices
• Modify rules with intuitive drag-and-drop functionality
• Add approvers as needed; configure routing to individuals, groups, and work queues; and create work queues by invoice type, supplier group, and spend category

Confidence-boosting compliance tools

• Complete transactions in more than 190 countries and more than 70 currencies in compliance with tax legislation and other e-invoicing requirements
• Set configurations for up to 40 business rules at a country level and apply them using templates relating to domestic, cross-border, and intra-EU trade