A-iP the Vision
Our vision is to enable automated invoice processing between buyers and suppliers from the delivery of the invoice from the supplier to financial posting of the invoice in the buyer‘s SAP system. The A-iP service can accept paper invoices, invoices emailed as attachments, electronic invoice files and web page entry. The true benefits of automated invoice processed can only be achieved by removing any barriers of entry for the supplier to participate, and allowing the supplier to deliver their invoices in the format which suits them and at no cost to the supplier.
For you the Buyer all the invoice data is converted to the same output file format for A-iP to transmit securely to your SAP system. For Buyers to achieve the benefits the receipt of the data from A-iP is into the Buyer’s SAP system with A-IP providing the tools to post invoices automatically, highlight errors and provide workflow to allow the users to resolve invoice queries.
This means the buyer's Accounts Payable team only have to deal with invoices that have errors.
Simply receiving invoice data electronically does not mean the prices are correct or the buyer has performed a goods receipt, so to complete our vision at A-iP we support continuous improvement of the Accounts Payable processes with the objective of increasing the first time posting percentages. To acheive this; A-iP employ expert SAP consultants to support the identification of process improvements to enable the Buyer to gain further efficiencies. The higher the percentage of invoices posting automatically, the more efficient your Accounts Payable team will be.