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Procure-to-pay automation

Procure-to-pay automation helps companies reinvent how they process orders and invoices and work with suppliers—keeping costs in check and streamlining operations.

Discover how procure-to-pay automation strengthens supplier relationships, improves accountability and visibility for stakeholders, and optimizes the flow of goods and services into the business.

Automating procure to pay can make this mission-critical business cycle more efficient, more transparent, and more strategic

Create efficiencies that strengthen the bottom line

No business function is an island. Discover how automating procure-to-pay is a vital step in enterprise transformation.

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Finance and accounting

Get the control you need to keep costs in check, optimize cash flow, and ensure compliance.

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Order-to-cash

Streamline order entry and fulfillment, invoicing, receipt of payments, and cash application.

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Case studies

Canon makes faster and more accurate invoice processing automatic

In less than nine months after deploying UiPath automation and AI to power intelligent document processing (IDP), Canon processed roughly 40,000 invoices, about 4,500 monthly. They passed their initial goal of processing 75% of invoices without human intervention, ultimately achieving about 90%.

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Automate every task and process within the procure-to-pay cycle.

With UiPath, procurement teams get the time and freedom to focus on more strategic tasks that have a meaningful impact on the business. 

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More efficient processing

UiPath Robots can verify information, onboard vendors, and prepare invoices faster

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Wide-reaching impact

P2P automation improves supplier relationships and employee satisfaction.

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AI and automation

Use AI to digitize invoice collection, validation, ​and storage. 

Ready for a smarter way of working? Transform the procure-to-pay cycle with AI and automation.

Faster, more efficient, straight-through processing

Improve days payable outstanding (DPO) by accelerating invoice processing and transforming the supplier experience with faster onboarding and more streamlined communication.

  • Manage procurement activities
  • Purchase goods and services
  • Receive goods and services
  • Process invoices
  • Process payments

Manage procurement activities

Automate your activities, including purchasing and receiving goods and services. Then, integrate them with accounts payable (AP) to complete the purchase-to-pay cycle. With automatic creation and submission of all necessary documents, you'll be able to reduce turnaround times for payment.

Management procurement use cases:

  • Measure performance 

  • Develop procurement strategy and process 

  • Manage supplier and vendor relationships 

See how Siemens did it
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Purchase goods and services

By accelerating the purchase-to-pay process, you can improve supplier collaboration while boosting employee satisfaction, productivity, and company profitability. Not to mention increasing accuracy and reducing risk.

Purchase use cases include:

  • Create and submit requisitions  

  • Create purchase orders  

  • Submit purchase orders to vendors  

  • Manage requisition approvals  

  • Manage purchase order approvals

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Receive goods and services

Expedite goods receipt (GR) processes by digitizing and automating GR tasks. Improve inventory level accuracy, provide better information to finance to support three-way invoice matching, and authorize payments efficiently.

Goods receipt use cases:

  • Process receipts  

  • Receive goods and services  

  • Manage discrepancies and returns  

  • Manage inventory

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Process invoices

Reengineer workflows and digitize invoice collection, validation, and storage. Use robots to extract, interpret, and process data for you, even from PDFs, images, handwriting, and scans, reducing turnaround times and freeing up time spent on highly manual tasks.

Invoice processing use cases:

  • Digitize invoice collection, validation, and storage

  • Process electronic invoicing  

  • Validate and handle invoice data  

  • Submit transactions for processing  

  • Manage matching discrepancies

See how ThermoFisher did it
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Process payments

Automate the review of invoices that have been processed and are ready for payment. Use AI and ML to handle payment reconciliations and manage any exceptions.

Payment processing use cases:

  • Run payment process  

  • Complete initial payment review  

  • Handle payment reconciliations  

  • Manage payment exceptions

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E-book

How automation gets finance workloads back in balance

Download this e-book to learn how finance teams can lighten their workload and how automation can enable them to expand their responsibilities as strategic advisors to the business.

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Deploy automations 200% faster

Reduce design time with our free prebuilt templates. Apply best-practice methods for getting the most from the UiPath Platform™. 

See procure-to-pay automation in action

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Automated invoice processing

Learn how businesses can use UiPath to leverage AI-powered enterprise automation to achieve faster results with invoice processing.

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Optimized supplier management

Find out how the UiPath Platform can remove the bottlenecks and inefficiencies from supplier management processes.

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Three-way match

Discover how automation can revolutionize ‌procurement and accounts payable processes with three-way match, Miro, and SAP.

Rethink your procure-to-pay processes with AI-powered automation. We'll show you how.