Is your AP email invisible?
With the technologies available today, there are a dozen ways for businesses to communicate with each other, yet one still reigns supreme: email.
Unfortunately, important documents you receive by email are essentially invisible to your financial systems until someone manually processes them. It’s as if they’ve been captured by a black hole. This lack of visibility leads to high costs and the opportunity for human error.
Other invoice-capturing methods like EDI, portals, and platforms can help alleviate these blind spots. Althought they have been available for years, their use pales in comparison to the sheer volume of transactions conducted via email. If automated solutions objectively work more efficiently, why haven’t they been more widely adopted?
AP email’s gravitational culprits: Cost and consistency
Email costs virtually nothing compared to the setup and maintenance of other automated solutions. There’s no onboarding for new partners, no maintenance of licenses or mappings, and no memorizing URLs or credentials to access buyer/supplier portals.
The problem with solutions like EDI and portals is that they’re effectively asking the problem to change in order to solve it. If my business partners can work with me differently, it’ll solve my problem, they seem to say. It’s no surprise this approach hasn’t been more widely adopted.
As long as the cheapest, easiest way for your partners to do business with you is to click a button that sends you an email, that’s what most of them will do.
But what if AI could automate most of the manual tasks accompanying your email processing? Wouldn’t that make life easier?
AI that fully automates email-to-ERP
Incorporating finance AI is like adding a powerful rocket to your invoices–escaping that black hole is both faster and easier. That’s because AI fully automates email-to-ERP processing. Solutions like AppZen Inbox begin managing invoices from the minute you receive them without human intervention, supplier behavior change, or lengthy implementations. This is the light you’ve been hunting for to illuminate the darkness surrounding emailed invoices.
Even more powerful is our AI Agent Workbench, an intelligent ticketing system that works hand-in-hand with AppZen Inbox. It turns emails into structured tasks and tracks them from assignment through completion. It’s a “digital command center” for where you work most: your AP email inbox.
AI finds AP compliance issues and duplicates quickly. It surfaces important data for you so you don’t have to switch back and forth between systems, and tackles your most important tasks with amazing accuracy. No more blind spots, just insights that put you ahead.
It’s time to free your invoices and vendor communications from the gravitational pull of the space between your AP inbox and ERP system. If you’re searching for an AI partner to transform your email-based processes, contact us today.
