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In an age when companies are tightening financial controls and automating business processes, Accounts Payable remains a largely manual process. Even in companies with ERP investments like SAP, invoices arrive, are keyed into the system, and eventually filed in cabinets and perhaps warehoused in boxes. The process is time-consuming, repetitive and error prone. More urgently, the people responsible for the process have no visibility into it and cannot be assured of getting timely, accurate information on demand.

Accounts Payable, with its manual, paper-based operations, has much to gain from automation. A variety of applications and tools make it possible, including image scanning, automated workflow management and process tracking, optical character recognition (OCR) systems, and electronic invoicing (e- Invoicing).

This whitepaper discusses Dolphin's Best Practice approach and solutions for automating and optimizing Accounts Payable in SAP.