One of the most critical aspects of business is paying for your services. Yet invoicing is typically a time-consuming business process involving manual data entry, logs, and excel spreadsheets and is subject to human error. One way to improve profitability and streamline the workflow of high-volume office operations is by adding Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and optical character recognition (OCR) to your financial services transactions.

RPA works 24/7, automating billing and invoicing functions with 100% accuracy, streamlining office operations, and increasing profitability. Work orders can be generated in real-time as orders are completed, decreasing processing time and increasing customer satisfaction. You can streamline accounts payable and accounts receivable functions by automating invoicing and reconciliation tasks, increasing accuracy, reducing human error, and improving the overall efficiency of your finance and accounting departments.

What are the benefits of invoice automation?

RPA uses artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), machine learning and intelligent document processing to automate routine business processes such as invoicing, procurement, and onboarding suppliers. RPA bots can reconcile financial information, flag discrepancies for investigation, generate reports, process payments, update accounts and provide real-time updates. RPA can replace tedious manual data-entry, enabling employees to do higher-value, fulfilling work.

Streamline team communications

Streamline team communications

Intelligent automation using RPA can streamline communications by automatically validating and onboarding customers, processing payments, flagging discrepancies for investigation and providing real-time, transparent financial reporting and more. As well, Automation Anywhere’s finance bots can extract data from multiple sources.

Improve cash flow

Improve cash flow

Robotic Process Automation can improve cash flow by automating time-consuming workflows such as building ledgers, allocating amounts across different accounts, and reviewing payments. invoices can be created instantaneously and sent on pre-defined schedules resulting in faster payment and more profitability.

Reduce costs

Reduce costs

Payment processing is a time-intensive operation with multiple data points, manual data entry, processing invoices and payments, and reconciling accounts. A single transposition error can result in hours of reconciliation, lost time and productivity. RPA reduces errors, reduces costs, increases efficiency and boosts customer satisfaction.

Improve accuracy

Improve accuracy

Business invoices are prone to errors such as missing/incorrect information.Investigating and reconciling discrepancies are time-consuming and can be avoided by adding RPA to accounts payable/receivable functions. When GLT International implemented an RPA solution, they quickly “95% accuracy has been achieved with 89% straight through processing.”

Accelerate financial close

Accelerate financial close

RPA can generate invoices and work orders, process payments, reconcile accounts, create transparent audit trails and generate reports and update accounts in real-time. RPA can generate financial data on-demand, supporting forecasting, external reporting and business decision-making.

Strengthen governance and controls

Strengthen governance and controls

Changes in international financial accounting practices can cause delays as employees learn new processes. RPA can automatically update standards, tolerances and controls, ensuring your financial reporting is always in compliance. By automating audit practices and controls, you can strengthen governance and regulatory compliance.

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Who benefits from invoice processing automation?

Robotic Process Automation can benefit your business operation by streamlining time-consuming business processes and workflows, consistent company policies, facilitating supply chain onboarding, and real-time data for business decisions and profitability.

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Accounts Payable and Receivable

Adding RPA to invoicing can eliminate manual processes to reduce costs, strengthen controls, improve accuracy, accelerate financial reporting and result in faster payments, accurate reconciliations and real-time financial transactions. Employees can do more satisfying, higher-value work.

Procurement

Procurement

RPA can automate routine functions such as onboarding new suppliers, auto-generating work orders, invoices, e-commerce transactions, statements, and reconciling accounts. 100% accuracy leads to increased customer satisfaction, fewer account discrepancies and efficient business workflows.

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance

RPA uses artificial intelligence and intelligent document processing to quickly update company policies, regulatory changes in policies, procedures and standard accounting practices to ensure your financial services business practice is always 100% in compliance.

Customer Relations

Customer Relations

Replacing time-consuming manual operations with streamlined RPA workflows allows employees to focus on customer satisfaction, use their communication skills rather than spending all their time on data entry and excel.

Customer Story

When you choose a partner for your intelligent automation journey, don’t do it on a purely cost basis, but ensure you select a partner that will support you at the times you need it most. Automation Anywhere was with us on every moment of our journey, helping us achieve our success.

Prateek Kapoor, Lean Digital Transformation Leader
Juniper Networks

100%

reduction in process cycle time

33%

reduction in manual labor

24/7

unlimited billing capacity

How invoice automation can help your business?

While procurement, supply chain management, inventory, accounts payable/receivable, customer relations, sales and marketing all operate independently, they all depend on efficient business processes in the financial services area of your business. Here are some ways adding RPA for invoicing can help your business.

Invoicing

Invoicing

  • Create invoices from company data on-demand or on a schedule
  • Reconcile data, prepare customer statements, reconcile accounts and flag discrepancies 24/7
  • Streamline routine data entry, multiple account access and data retrieval
  • Collate data from multiple sources and systems to populate accounts, reports and statements
  • Process payments, update accounts, reconcile statements and generate reports on-demand in real-time
  • Generate transparent audit trails to meet regulatory compliance
Procurement

Procurement

  • Generate work orders, bills of lading, track shipments, update accounts and send reminders
  • Automatically onboard new suppliers following established company policies
  • Handle high volume requests seamlessly, working on multiple accounts simultaneously
  • Handle routine customer inquiries about statements, balances, payment inquiries and updates
  • Generate stock reminders, reports, work orders, and invoices in real-time
  • Validate supplier inquiries by cross referencing the technical library, database, and document repository
Customer Relations

Customer Relations

  • Create accurate work orders, statements, invoices and accounts in a timely manner
  • Automate data entry so employees can focus on customer relationship management (CRM)
  • 100% accuracy in resolution of account discrepancies, payment inquiries and account reconciliations
  • Access customer information from any platform, legacy system or database and provide real-time updates
  • Troubleshoot and problem-solve in real time with comprehensive updates for all aspects of a customer file
  • Automate complex, multi-touch workflows and embed automation right within CRM and ticketing systems
Financial Services

Financial Services

  • Process regulatory requirements from multiple jurisdictions based on rule-based decision making
  • Scale accounts receivable operations, open customer accounts, issue invoices and process payments.
  • Generate real-time financial reporting to support robust forecasting, decision making and audit requests
  • Complete real-time account reconciliations, send payment reminders, and generate statements 24/7
  • Gain 100% accuracy in invoice creation, reconciliation and payment processing increases profitability
  • Reduce fraud and flag exceptions for investigation, while enhancing business and operational continuity

What to look for in an invoice automation vendor?

How to get started?

Automation Anywhere can assist you at every step of the way, You can work with our experts to build a point of concept on how RPA might be useful throughout your business.

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