accounts_payable · workflow
Basware AI-powered AP automation delivers touchless invoice processing
Organizations managing large invoice volumes face manual processing bottlenecks, late supplier payments, lack of spend visibility, and tax compliance challenges across multiple ERP systems and geographies.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Invoice received
Invoices enter the AP automation process at the receipt stage.
Tools used
BaswareSmartPDFSmartCoding
Outcome
Basware's AP automation enables 89% touchless processing and 85% on-time supplier payments; customers report dramatic decreases in processing errors and significant efficiency gains, with Ritchie Bros achieving 65% end-to-end touchless matching in North America.
Results
Time saved85%
Volume89%
Cost replaced100%
Grounding & classification
Source type: generic use case
32 fields verified against source quotes.
data extractiondocument aiidpinvoicepurchase ordermetric backednamed customerproduction runtime claimedsource backedtools describedworkflow describedautomation ratecycle time reductionerror reductiontime savedgeneric use caseaccounts payableinvoice processingdocument to recordextract classify route