Tom Taylor, Microsoft
YOUR PRESENTER
Tom Taylor
Partner Technology Strategist, Microsoft
12 years experience Dynamics NAV
Why does a truly paperless accounts payable (AP)
process benefit your organization.
What steps are required to define a paperless AP
process.
How to process different paperless AP scenarios.
Where to learn more to implement Microsoft
Dynamics NAV 2016 paperless AP process today.
Look at the problematic nature of manual AP
processing.
What are the advantages of adopting a paperless
AP process.
The impact: Bottom line cost savings.
Document management provided out of the box.
PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF MANUAL AP
Inefficient
Lacks visibility
Poor controls
Physical mail
Hand keying and copying
of invoices
Physical invoice approval
routing
Excessive or
slow communications
Email, fax, mail
Ineffective problem
resolutions
Manual storage
Delayed receipt
Lost or missing invoices
Approval process tracking
Performance metrics and
Service Level Agreements
Accrued liability/
compliance reporting
Lack of standard
procedures
Lengthy audits
DILEMMA OF MANUAL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE
Inefficient
invoice
management
Missed discounts Late payment penalties Unhappy vendors Inability to negotiatebetter terms Source: PayStream Advisors, 2014 Microsoft Dynamics Report: Completing P2P with Cloud Technology
ADVANTAGES OF PAPERLESS AP
Improved
invoice
management
process
What are the
greatest
benefits you
hope to achieve
from an
e-invoicing
solution?
Source: PayStream Advisors, 2014 Microsoft Dynamics Report: Completing P2P with Cloud Technology
FEWER SUPPLIES INQUIRIES 20%
40% REDUCTION IN FTE/PROCESSING COSTS 24% INCREASED ABILITY TO CAPTURE DISCOUNTS 20%
IMPROVED VENDOR SATISFACTION
57%
FEWER DUPLICATE INVOICES
33%
REDUCTION IN EXCEPTIONS/DISCREPANCIES
37%
BETTER VISIBLITY ACROSS THE TRANSACTION
45%
QUICKER APPROVAL CYCLES
39%
INCREASED ON-TIME PAYMENTS
70%
ADVANTAGES OF PAPERLESS AP
Benefits of
approval
workflow
Quicker
approval of
invoices ranks
as the
top benefit to
approval
workflow.
PayStream Advisors, 2013 Invoice & Workflow Automation Report
Quicker approval of invoices
76%
59%
Lower processing costs
48% Increased employee
productivity
41%
Reduction in late payments
32% Improved visibility over
liabilities
22%
Increased discount capture
14% Better compliance with regulatory
KEY BENEFITS THAT EMPOWER
Efficiency Visibility
Vendor Relations Control
1 2 3 4 AP Manager Director of IT or Dynamics Solutions that are simple to administer and upgrade Fits corporate IT strategy Security concerns Eliminate inefficiencies in invoice processing Better visibility Faster payment cycle time
Time for analysis
THE IMPACT: BOTTOM LINE COSTS
65.8%
30
14.3
$23.30
8.9%
DAYS
Invoice
processing time
PROCESSING
Cost per invoice
INDUSTRY RESEARCH PAPERLESS AP
Source: PayStream Advisors 2014 Microsoft Dynamics Report
Manual routing of invoices
75%
Missing information oninvoices
23%
Large numbers of exceptions
43%
Lengthy approval cycles30%
Lost invoices37%
Decentralized invoice receipt34%
80%
Lower invoice processing costsAP processes can be drastically
improved with automation
Especially in the areas of invoice
receipt, matching and approval
workflow
Key areas for improvement: manual
routing and lost invoices
75%
Shorter invoice processing time
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT BENEFITS
CAPTURE & STORE INVOICES
Incoming documents
Add PDFs or images as incoming
documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Or
receive incoming documents sent directly
to the Lexmark Invoice Capture Service
(ICS).
Device camera integration
EXTRACT INVOICE DATA IN THE CLOUD
Use low-cost Lexmark ICS
service
Rely on an optional, free or low-cost,
cloud-based Lexmark ICS service with
zero deployment, to extract data from
purchase invoices and credit memos in
incoming documents.
Avoid retyping data
AUTOMATE DOCUMENT HANDLING
Approval workflow
Use the new workflow features to set up approval workflows
Automatic processing
Add workflows to automatically process any Incoming electronic document, for example: • Send & receive documents to/from the
Lexmark ICS service
• Automatically create draft purchase documents in Microsoft Dynamics NAV
• Post draft documents
• Create payment lines for posted documents