SAP Concur: AI-Powered AP Automation Boosts Invoice Processing
SAP Concur published a guide on accounts payable automation outlining five steps: assessing the current AP process baseline, defining automation goals, understanding AI's role in invoice processing, gaining insights through spend visibility and integration, and maintaining flexibility to navigate uncertainty. It cites data that businesses adding automated AP solutions to an integrated travel and expense platform process 64% more invoices monthly and achieve average savings of 20%.
Impact and considerations
AP automation directly affects finance teams' invoice throughput and cost structure; the 64% processing-volume increase and 20% average savings offer reference benchmarks for companies evaluating AP investment returns.
Key points
- The guide outlines a five-step AP automation path, starting with assessing the current process baseline.
- AI can separate documents, extract line-by-line details, flag duplicates and abnormalities, and streamline invoice-to-PO matching.
- Integrating AP, travel and expense data provides clearer spend insights and helps negotiate better vendor rates.
- It cites data that businesses adding automated AP solutions to an integrated travel and expense platform process 64% more invoices monthly and save an average of 20%.
- Best-in-class AP teams take 8.72 hours to process an invoice, versus 9.2 days for average teams.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 8 Dec 2025, 18:10
- Page published
- 13 Aug 2026, 08:29
- Last updated
- 8 Dec 2025, 18:10
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog：How to Automate AP and Improve Invoice Management (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 8 Dec 2025, 18:10