The best Accounts Payable Automation solution in Australia and New Zealand

Here are the leading alternative solutions available from Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax, Medius,Tipalti and ACMO to consider.

best Accounts Payable Automation solution in Australia and New Zealand

What is AP Automation

Intelligent Automation is a combination of technologies such as (BPM) Business Process Management, (IDP) Intelligent Document Processing, (RPA) Robotic Process Automation, (AI) Artificial Intelligence, including (ML) Machine Learning and Cognitive Capture.

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Submit Invoices

AP Automation software converts your supplier invoices into a standard digital format and then processes the invoices through an intelligent digital workflow, Ready for payment and reconciliation.

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Extract with AI

AP automation uses advanced technologies such as optical character recognition (OCR) to extract information from invoices and artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to recognise patterns over time and improve accuracy for data extraction.

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Customised business rules such as acceptable variances and approval workflows can also eliminate the need for manual interventions and provide the ultimate straight-through, touchless invoice processing.

Using AP Automation
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Say goodbye to missing out on early-payment discounts from suppliers, stressing about audits, and dealing with constant inquiries to your AP department.
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Instead, say hello to a clear dashboard for your finances with newfound data insights. You'll have less burdened staff and supplier relationships and the ability to expand your operations using your existing AP team.
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Get Enterprise-grade business rules protecting you and the supplier by improving the transparency of your transactions, making it easier to perform any audits and guard against fraud.
Tungsten Automation, formerly Kofax

Tungsten AP Essentials™, formerly
ReadSoft Online™

Cloud-based invoice processing automation software automatically captures, understands, validates, and approves invoices from any source. Lower your costs and reduce invoice processing time. A proper multi-tenant SaaS solution, this vendor invoice management solution is monitored around the clock by a dedicated cloud operations team to ensure optimal performance and effortless handling of significant changes in document volumes.

Save time with
cognitive capture
Enjoy the labour-reducing benefits of improved extraction rates. Adaptive, artificial intelligence-based capabilities improve document processing speed and extraction precision.
Automate with
broad ERP integration
Choose from three AP Essentials editions to accommodate unique vendor requirements. All editions integrate with ERP and pay-to-procure market leaders.
Experience low TCO and fast ROI
Achieve ROI quickly and painlessly with simple implementation, comprehensive 24/7 cloud-based support, and constant performance monitoring.
Streamline invoice processing
Native workflows ensure proper routing of invoices, enforced approval policies, and greater transparency into how processes are executed.
Increased
data accuracy
Invoice and purchase order data is extracted using market-leading cognitive capture technology, resulting in more accurate financial data and reduced risk of errors.
Robust
analytics
Pre-built dashboards provide insight into invoice status and exceptions and "zero-touch" processing and supply continuous feedback to further optimise the invoice process.
Improved supplier relationships
Faster, rules-driven invoice processing reduces late-payment penalties while securing early payment discounts and improving supplier relationships.
Reduced
IT requirements
Set-up requires no hardware or software investment or time-consuming maintenance, upgrades, or updates.

Tungsten AP Agility®

Tungsten AP Agility is a full suite Accounts Payable automation solution

Data Capture Capabilities

Giving you market-leading data capture capabilities and going far beyond basic OCR to capture a range of financial documents from any source,  including several XML formats.

Pre built Integrations

Includes out-of-the-box approval workflows based on best practices and pre-built ERP AP integrations.

Strenghthen Controls

Accelerate your digital workflow transformation journey, reduce costs, speed processes, improve quality, and strengthen internal controls with AP Agility.

Multichannel financial document processing
Process financial documents received from any delivery channel, including those submitted electronically.
Realises a
fast ROI
Increase the flexibility of financial operations by radically simplifying the information-intensive interactions that typify AP processes.
Free up AP staff from errors and manual work
Automating accounts payable enables employees to focus less on manual processing and more on higher-level strategic work.
Realise more straight-through processing with AI
Use AI to automate the recognition, identification, and extraction of text and financial data from more channels and content types than any other automation solution.
Deploy as
you like
The solution is deployable on-premise, in your private cloud, or the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
Instant
Scalability
Choose the public cloud for instant scalability, reduced costs, less IT dependency, and faster time-to-ROI.
Customised
AP Workflows
Use AI to build resilient and dynamic workflows to manage exceptions, approvals, and other points of collaboration within the accounts payable process.
ERP Agnostic
Solution
Simplify your set-up work with pre-built integrations to a variety of ERPs along with frameworks for fast and easy integration to any platform.
MEDIUS

Streamline your Accounts Payable

What if you had an AP Automation platform that met all your needs and automated the entire source-to-pay process? 
We believe that true digital transformation is about working smarter across your organisation, from the front office to the back office, to grow revenues and profits. Use Medius to streamline your accounts payable and boost your cash flow visibility.

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Speed to value and rapid implementation

Medius has some of the best implementation times in the industry. Once deployed, you'll see an immediate ROI. You'll see your staff happier and more productive. You'll notice game-changing process efficiencies and literally see the difference in your monthly reporting.

This is all possible because:

  • Medius can integrate your ERP and supporting systems rapidly
  • Tried and tested implementation methodology, based on 20 years’ experience
  • Huge resources in our success portal to guarantee rapid adoption
  • Automated workflows that promote best practice immediately

Big innovators (especially when it comes to AI)

Tomorrow's technology is always top of mind at Medius. We've got a dedicated research and development team whose sole responsibility is to evaluate, test, and develop experimental technologies, that you'll be using sooner rather than later. Over the past five years, a massive focus has been on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). The result is a truly innovative technology in our spend management solutions, designed to help you do your job that little bit easier.

For instance, Medius AP Automation features predictive coding, an AI-driven process that learns and accurately predicts outcomes based on your behaviour. Our technology gets smarter as it works with you more.

This dedication to the latest technology and our pioneering research and development process helps Medius stay ahead of the curve and deliver innovative spend management solutions.

Cloud-based integration with ERP and third-party software

Medius Connect is our cloud-based solution that brings our technology stack together with yours. It's secure and links any ERP or third-party system with any Medius solution. It works by using a library of pre-configured integrations we can deploy quickly.

All your data will be centralised, and unlike other best-of-breed spend management providers, you can always have confidence that you're paying for market-leading technology that actually does what it says it will do.

Features of Medius AP Automation

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Three-way matching

Automatic three-way matching allows your business to resolve discrepancies in invoices, POs, and receivables. You can safeguard your assets, avoid fraudulent invoices, and ensure you pay the correct amounts.

Intelligent invoice and touchless data capture

Our state-of-the-art data capture solution is native to Medius AP Automation and expertly pinpoints and extracts invoice data automatically. Our innovative 'touchless capture' technology is powered by clever AI that removes the guesswork. Original invoices are automatically archived in Medius' automated AP software to audit whenever you need them.

Use spend data to make better business decisions

Utilising account payable solutions will allow you to broaden your insight into your business spending. Predefined reports, dashboards, and KPIs give you a complete view of how money is spent and help you better manage cash flow. The study captured and missed discounts, working capital, and more so you can tune operational performance.

Integrate with Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Infor, and more

Integrate Medius Accounts Payable Automation Tools with your organisation's ERP or accounting system and connect solutions across the procure-to-pay lifecycle. Out-of-the-box integration makes it easy for your IT team to onboard AP Workflow Automation, managing the systems and processes with a predictable timescale and resources set.

Streamline the supplier payment process

Integrate Medius AP Automation with Medius Pay for a simple, secure, and streamlined vendor payment process that allows you to pay all your domestic and international suppliers via a single channel.

Integrate Medius AP Automation with your back-office

Rapidly bring together your back-office and third-party systems using Medius Connect. Use out of the box connectors for major ERP systems means a rapid and predictable implementation.

Natively embedded capture means a single user interface to manage all invoices from initial input to final approval.

Seamless integration with our modular solutions and Medius Procurement ensures employees order the correct goods and services upfront and that invoices can be automatically matched without issue.

Tipalti

Tipalti Accounts Payable Automation

Using Tipalti cloud-based accounts payable solutions, you can automate at scale, turn documents and data into savings, create accounts payables resilience, and simplify your document management.

AP Automation

Modernise your financial operations

Free up your finance teams from the day-to-day inefficiencies of manual accounts payable and working with point systems. Tipalti delivers end to end payables solutions, purpose-built to handle the evolving needs of your business—with a focus on scale, efficiency, controls, and visibility.

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Scale rapidly without adding resources
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Eliminate payables workload and focus on high-value initiatives
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Strengthen financial controls and reduce compliance risk
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Accelerate financial close and get real-time spend insight
GLOBAL PArtner payments

Deliver best-in-class
partner experiences

Unique to Tipalti, Global Partner Payments ensures your digital-first company can offer a top-tier partner experience that leading disrupters rely on to take their platform to the next level.

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Attract and retain a stronger partner ecosystem
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Deliver a payouts process scalable for hyper-growth
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Pay thousands of partners around the globe in minutes
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Eliminate fraud, strengthen financial controls, and reduce compliance risk
ACMO APAY

ACMO Accounts Payable Solution (APAY)

ACMO Accounts Payable Solution (APAY) is a cloud-based APAutomation solution that provides a highly automated, cost-effective process while you stay in complete control of your invoices. The solution captures and transforms the invoice information, with little to no human intervention, and integrates with all leading ERPs and Business Applications.

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Cloud-based Accounts Payable solution
  • Hosted within Australia on our secure AWS cloud

  • Subscription-based licensing with a flexible contract length

  • No on-premise infrastructure is required

  • Go-Live in weeks as soon as the account is integrated with your ERP.

  • The inbuilt document management system allows access to your invoices anytime/anywhere

Most Comprehensive Input Channels for Invoice Ingestion
  • Email/Scan-To-Email/EDI/eInvoice

  • Import emails from your existing mailboxes

  • Secure EDI Gateway for suppliers to submit their invoices

  • Receive eInvoices direct using our Peppol E-Invoicing Access Point+ Processes pdf/docx/xlsx/zip/tar and password-protected files

Cognitive Capture and Machine Learning
  • Inbuilt machine-learning capabilities to extract all invoice information

  • Cognitive capture engine that is not reliant on templates for data extraction

  • Process most invoices with little or no manual intervention.

Fraud Detection and Compliance
  • Invoices that do not comply with ATO guidelines

  • Invoices with bank details mismatch

  • Invoices from a blocked supplier

  • Inactive ABN and GST-not-registered

  • Duplicate invoices

  • Invoices for goods not receipted / order price variance

All processed invoice images include the complete processing audit trail to assist with any audit.

Capture / Capture + Workflow
  • APAY will streamline invoice data entry to interface with your ERP

  • Invoice routing based on DOA matrix or APAY rules matrix

  • Invoices can be reviewed and actioned using the proprietary ROO mobile app.

Supplier Portal
  • Secure web portal allowing self-service for your suppliers

  • Invite your suppliers through an easy-to-navigate administration module

  • Suppliers can submit new invoices, flip purchase orders into an invoice and check the status of an invoice payment

  • Review and manage requests for updates to supplier master data

Integration and Customisation
  • APAY can integrate with all leading ERPs/ECMs/Business Applications

  • Supports a variety of Integration methods (REST/SOAP/CSV/RPA)  Enabled/Disabled as agreed during scoping workshop + Require additional subscription on top of the standard APAY license

Have further questions about any of the above-mentioned solutions?

Book in a chat with our solution consultants, and they will be happy to provide you any additional information or arrange a product demonstration.

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