AUTONOMOUS FINANCE
Accounts Payable Assistant
Resolve payment exceptions, reconcile suppliers, and transform Accounts Payable into a self-optimising capability.
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Overview
The Accounts Payable Assistant transforms your AP process with AI-powered automation. Eliminate manual payments, automate bank validations, and resolve exceptions instantly. Predict payment risks, detect clearing patterns, and automatically route issues for resolution. Gain real-time insights into DPO, ageing, predictive cash flow, and discount capture opportunities.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
Payment enquiry
- Recording requests
- Initiating payments
- Sending updates
Pre-validation
- Validating attributes
- Checking compliance
- Carrying out risk checks
- Recommending solutions
Bank validation
- Verifying supplier bank accounts
Exceptions
- Flagging, explaining, and routing payment exceptions
Supplier analytics
- Tracking DPO, cash flow, and discount opportunities
Reconciliation
- Reconciling statements
- Highlighting discrepancies
Example use cases for this assistant:
- Payment automation and exception resolution
- Cash flow forecasting from the AP pipeline
- Risk and compliance checks through external integrations
- Real-time DPO, ageing, and discount capture dashboards
- Supplier bank account verification and activation
- Automated exception detection with step-by-step routing
- Supplier statement reconciliation and discrepancy flagging
Benefits
End-to-end payment automation
Eliminate touchpoints from request capture to payment advice.
Proactive risk prevention
Pre-validate payments, verify bank accounts, and check compliance before execution.
Intelligent exception resolution
Provide root cause explanations and guidance to resolve payment exceptions more quickly.
Predictive cashflow insights
Transform your accounts payable pipeline into forecasts, DPO tracking, and discount opportunities for more informed decisions.
Automated supplier reconciliation
Compare statements against system records to highlight discrepancies.
Agents used by this assistant
Use the Accounts Payable Assistant to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.
Payment Enquiry Handling Agent
Processes payment requests from documents and emails, initiating payments and providing status updates.
Payment Risk Agent
Provides contextual risk insights for payments by combining internal signals with external risk indicators.
Receivables and Payables Clearing Agent
Uses AI-based matching and ageing pattern analysis to generate intelligent clearing recommendations.
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