Barriers to Breakthroughs:

Myth #1: AP Automation Isn’t in My Budget

If you believe AP automation isn’t in your budget, you should consider a cost-savings analysis to understand the long-term benefits, including intangible benefits.

Accounts payable automation solutions deliver long-standing benefits that outweigh the initial investment. With analysis and insight into the customer’s organization, technology providers can help you identify unique implementation and operation costs that help you quantify the long-term savings and benefits. With awareness, consultants provide a pathway to develop a cost-effective AP automation solution unique to your business needs.

Case studies, like those found on our website, illustrate a diverse range of real-world results that provide relevant information and insights that organizations need to evaluate technology solutions. Evaluating these benefits helps you discover potential savings for a strong business case. means identifying pain points and inefficiencies. In case studies, like those found on our website, customers want to overcome:

• Long processing times

• High error rates

• Late payment penalties

• Lengthy manual processes

• Inefficiencies in workflows

• Lack of visibility in cash flow management

At Adjacent Solutions, we also educate customers on the significant intangible advantages AP automation delivers. While not directly measurable in monetary terms, efficiency gains, competitiveness, enhanced vendor relationships, strategic insights, and reduced risk of fraud contribute positively to overall organizational success.

Myth #2: Your Current Processes Are Working

Experiencing delays in your invoice processing or time-consuming approval workflows? Then your current processes aren’t working. Business processes can consume company resources and drive high operational costs, affecting profitability and competitiveness. Labor-intensive resources behind manual AP processes can also limit visibility, making it difficult to uncover and analyze spending patterns or track indicators key to business performance. Inefficiencies and errors can lead to increased costs that limit innovation and financial success.

Technology professionals understand the necessity of streamlined business workflow processes and the technology complexities organizations face when implementing AP automation solutions. That’s why Oracle consultants at Adjacent Solutions develop and execute change management strategies to ensure the smooth adoption of new processes, including communication plans and training.

Our team assists you by overseeing data migration from legacy systems to your new AP automation platform, data cleansing and consolidation, as well as performance monitoring and optimization, and advice on compliance with regulatory requirements, best practices, and more.

Myth #3: You Don’t Need a Data-Driven Business Case

Building a compelling business case for any project takes a considerable amount of work. Demonstrating the potential benefits and ROI that AP automation can provide can sometimes be difficult for internal teams to quantify, as each project requires a range of functional and technical expertise to fully analyze. Without data and analysis for a comprehensive business case, securing a buy-in for implementation may be difficult.

Technology consultants like those at Adjacent Solutions provide specialized expertise and experience to resolve account payables challenges and enhance ROI. This includes resources to deliver comprehensive data analysis and research that supports your unique business case. Case studies, like those found on our website, reveal how we’ve helped customers with Oracle AP automation needs and increased their employee productivity, improved regulatory compliance, and streamlined processes that enhance strategic decision-making.

Organizations and AP automation consultants should work together to create a pathway that combines best practices with your specific needs, objectives, and priorities so that you can better articulate value, key benefits, and address questions.

Overcoming Barriers to Breakthroughs with An Adjacent Team

Dispelling myths around modern technology complexities is the first step in breaking barriers to achieving AP automation breakthroughs. At Adjacent Solutions, we can help facilitate your AP automation conversations by addressing knowledge gaps in technology and implementation concerns, helping you evaluate your environment to make informed decisions.

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Want to learn more about how to reduce your resource constraints by bringing process and technology together? Contact our consultants at 469-998-4500 or [email protected] to see how we leverage integration tools and Oracle APEX for AP automation. Together, we can help you gain improved operational efficiency, greater financial impact, and faster business growth.

Adjacent Solutions is an Oracle Solution Integrator specializing in both on-prem and cloud-based technologies. From architecting to execution and management, we offer end-to-end digital transformation consulting.

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