AP Automation Overview

Automate Purchase Order Generation And Transmission:

Electronic processing reduces delays, errors and costs

It's time to take the paper out of the PO

Paper-based purchasing processes burden your business with a number of inherent inefficiencies. Since paper must be moved through the process manually, it imposes numerous roadblocks:

  • Paper requisitions require manual activities to move through each step
  • Approval delays
  • Misplaced and lost documents
  • Delivery via manual fax or postal mail waste time and resources
  • Vendors may or may not confirm receipt.

Move at the speed of electricity

ACOM’s automated purchasing process takes the delays and complications out of acquiring the products and services you need. When you perform each phase in an electronic environment, you greatly reduce the expense, uncertainty and labor of handling and exchanging paper documents. With ACOM, you can:

  • Automatically move documents through approval process with electronic workflow
  • Automatically deliver purchase orders and requisitions electronically (efax, email, EDI/XML)
  • Automatically capture and index POs into document management system (yours or ACOM’s)

No more manual filing or lost documents

ACOM’s automated purchasing modules interface directly with our document management solution, automatically storing purchase orders and associated documentation for easy retrieval. You can access records securely from any location and print or distribute them electronically with just a few clicks.

ACOM makes the transition easy

ACOM’s modular automated purchasing solution makes it easy to transition to an electronic purchasing environment.

  • No custom programming is required; implementations are quick and easy, integrating seamlessly with existing systems
  • Modular architecture enables you to automate the entire AP process, or address just one phase at a time

Integrate your entire Purchase-to-Pay process automatically

Learn how ACOM’s Integrated Document Management Suite integrates:

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