March 12th, Day Two
9:00 am - 9:30 am
EST
Factors Influencing AI Adoption in Financial Accounting: Focus on Accounts Payable
Simon Plattel -
Managing Director & CEO,
Cevinio
- Key factors that contribute to successful utilization of AI technologies in financial accounting processes.
- AI technologies in AP and AR: RPA, ML and LLMs.
- Organizational Factors influencing AI Adoption (Organizational readiness, technical expertise, technological infrastructure).
- Challenges and Barriers to AI Adoption
Sponsored by: Cevinio
9:45 am - 10:30 am
EST
The Roadblocks To Creating An End-To-End P2P Process (And How To Overcome Them)
Julie Lydon -
Director, Global Source to Pay,
Pearson
Julie Schwendimann - Vice President, Global Shared Services Operations, Stanley Black & Decker
Rob Jackson - Former VP, Finance Operations, Sage
One of the biggest factors preventing AP from optimizing, is the lack of data and process standardization. Without a standardized and centralized process, it is very difficult to get the full benefit from any intelligent automation implementation and reach optimum productivity levels. In this session we discuss what might be hampering your process transformation and how you can build a roadmap to a true end-to-end procure-to-pay process. We’ll cover global process ownership, digital workflows and process governance
10:45 am - 11:15 am
EST
Applying AP Intelligence To Improve Control Over Spend & Increase Organizational Resilience
According to SSON Research & Analytics’ latest AP automation survey, improved control over spend was one of the top 3 drivers of AP automation. In fact, having better control and visibility over your spending can help not only mitigate the risk of fraud, but put you in a better place to deal with unforeseen market fluctuations. This session talks about how to apply AP intelligence, focusing on:
- Turning cash insight into action
- Using AP intelligence to illustrate, manage and optimize vendor spend
- Linking spend analytics to early payment discounts
