Suppliers send invoices in different forms and standards and through different routes. We convert these real time and touchless to your desired standard. Together with the original.
Invoices can be submitted efficiently to budget holders. But we prefer to set up approval fully automatically based on purchase orders, order confirmations, packing slips and/or payment plans.
Accounts payable depends on procurement. In particular, indirect spend is often inadequately organized. Bringing indirect spend under management will reduce invoice processing downtime, among other things.
The average turnaround time of an invoice is usually known. Break down by invoice type, vendor segment or cost item.
But really digging into events and identifying patterns from them we rarely see. And the more the process is automated, the more fun it becomes for us to dive in.
Matching is much more than matching the invoice number to the order number. Matching refers to approving the invoice by comparing invoice data with order data.
Even when the invoice and/or order is split into multiple documents. And how tolerant should matching be? Can minimal deviations be tolerated?
That e-invoicing is easy, cheap and super-fast is obvious. But getting suppliers to go along is the big stumbling block. After all, each supplier has many more customers with their own requirements and agendas.
Therefore, make invoice receipt independent of suppliers by converting each invoice received into the format used in your invoice processing software or ERP.
Errors in invoices are often discovered late in the process. Then, for example, a supplier name does not quite match the data in your own master data.
Therefore, it is wise to first automatically validate each invoice received for the usual required properties. Even before the invoice is coded and approved. And if possible, also automatically return the invoice if the supplier has been sloppy.
Governments want to receive not only their own e-invoices from their suppliers, but also the invoices that companies send to each other.
The number of countries where we see this reflected is steadily increasing. In 2026, for example, it will be Belgium's turn. The Netherlands will not wait long for this. You can take on all the knowledge yourself or hire a partner to take care of it.
ICreative helps organizations with the digital transformation of accounts payable. We are comfortable with large and complex administrations, such as the use of multiple ERP systems, operating companies and currencies.
