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working capital, et cetera” that can help run the organization. SAPinsider’s 2025 Record to Report research reinforces that data ambition: 86% of finance lead- ers ranked harmonizing and integrating master data as a top concern, second only to managing the financial close more effectively.
risk, high ROI, great bang for your buck project that delivers in a really fast time period.” Basware’s customer experience shows that modern AP automation de- livers clear, demonstrable ROI of 136% while avoiding multi-year transforma- tion cycles; in Basware’s own work, AP projects are typically measured in weeks or months rather than years. Kurtz positions AP as both a proving ground for AI and a rich data source for finance: “AP is a great place for AI, you’ve got repeatable, predictable tasks that are really great for AI,” he says, pointing out that invoices contain “amazing data about your spend, supplier information,
voice, a document that unifies spend, supplier, working capital, and tax data across fragmented SAP landscapes. Kurtz argues that this is “not incremental change, it’s a true paradigm shift,” with leading organizations placing invoice lifecycle management on the critical path to autonomous finance. AP is the most data-dense, universally consistent finance process. Why Start With AP And ILM For CFOs and finance leaders navigat- ing long SAP S/4HANA migrations and finance transformation initiatives, AP and ILM offer what Kurtz calls a “low
“AP is a great place for AI, “you’ve got repeatable, predictable tasks that are really great for AI.”
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