How E-Invoicing Extended Procurement’s Influence with Accounts Payable

Editor's note: This is a refresh of our 2016 series on e-invoicing's influence on procurement-accounts payable relationships, which originally ran on Spend Matters PRO.

In this Spend Matters Plus research brief, we examine how procurement, through the use of technology, has extended its range of influence from its own processes to accounts payables and made electronic invoicing and supplier connectivity instrumental in the outcome of what we now call procure to pay (P2P). We also discuss the evolution of the purchasing function up to the integration of e-invoicing, the value proposition of e-invoicing, its challenges, what we see coming in the e-invoicing market and, finally, who some of the solution players are within the space.