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Top-quartile AP teams keep exception rates under 8%, while the lowest performers reach 20%. This SSON guide shows how to trace invoice exceptions to their root causes.

Three numbers decide an AP automation business case: all-in cost per invoice, exception and rework cost, and the value realization opportunity. The third is the one that moves a board, and it is the one most proposals leave out.

Roughly three quarters of AP teams still process below 50% touchless, against an advertised industry benchmark of 80%. This guide breaks down the six architectural blockers behind that gap, from data readiness and ERP write access to audit evidence, fraud risk, team adoption and ROI modeling.

The German e-invoicing mandate arrives in 2027. Sanna Koskinen speaks on why the “soft” mandate is harder than it looks, and what finance teams should do now.

Accounts payable KPIs measure performance across six categories: speed, cost, accuracy, cash and working capital, supplier relationships and governance. The six most important AP KPIs are cost per invoice, cycle time, touchless rate, exception rate, on-time payment rate, and human override rate.

In summary: The accounts payable process moves a supplier invoice from arrival to settlement and archiving through capture, coding, validation, matching, approval, posting, payment, and record keeping.

An invoice can pass every validation a tax authority requires and still stall the moment it reaches your AP system. This checklist sets out six practical actions for closing that gap, from intelligent data enrichment to choosing partners that keep pace as mandates change.

Every country now has its own e-invoicing rulebook, and the AP template that worked in Germany just failed validation in Poland. Here’s the architecture that turns a new mandate from a fire drill into a routine configuration update.

The Shared Services Link webinar, co-hosted with Springtime Technologies and Avalara, surfaced a problem that most e-invoicing projects don’t plan for until it’s too late. Here are the key takeaways for AP and shared services teams preparing for what comes next.

AP automation has a ceiling problem and it’s not a configuration issue. In our June SSON tech demo, Springtime’s Steven Standring and Jasna Janjic explored why most platforms stop learning once an exception hits, and how Invoicetrack’s accountable AI turns those exceptions into auditable, executable policy. Here’s what you need to know.

AI is rapidly transforming accounts payable, but accountability hasn’t kept pace. As AI agents begin making financial decisions at scale, the real risk isn’t failure, but outcomes nobody can explain or defend.

Most AP vendors get paid whether their promised outcomes materialize or not. Outcome-based pricing changes that: fees are tied to measurable targets, and missing them has financial consequences. BAT has made it work at global scale, and the model deserves your attention.

Most AP transformation projects don’t fail because of the software. They fail because the selection process asks the wrong questions, and these five are the ones that separate vendors who support genuine enterprise governance from those who simply automate the easy parts.

As highlighted in our recent webinar, reducing invoice cycle days is becoming a core driver of AP evolution. Faster processing strengthens the entire accounts payable process, improves accounts payable visibility, and makes accounts payable automation more effective.

Despite two decades of AP automation and widespread adoption, finance leaders are confronting an uncomfortable truth: Has automation has stalled?

We sat down with Mogens Pedersen, Springtime’s CTO, to discuss what excites him about this role, and his vision for our flagship solution, Invoicetrack.