Beating the AP Time Drain with AI: How Finance Teams Are Reclaiming Hours of Manual Work 📱

Most finance teams have automated one or two parts of AP, but the full cycle from vendor contract to reconciled payment is still full of manual steps. This session brings together Stackpack and Forwardly to show what a fully automated AP lifecycle actually looks like in practice. Stackpack covers the vendor and contract layer: tracking spend, flagging renewals, catching ghost vendors, and routing approvals. Forwardly covers the payment layer: capturing bills, automating and executing payments, and reconciling transactions automatically. Together, they close the loop from contract to cash out. Who should attend: CFOs, controllers, AP managers, and finance operations teams who are tired of patching together manual processes between their accounting software, vendor contracts, and payment tools. Learning Outcomes: -Evaluate how combining vendor management and payment automation tools creates a more complete AP workflow and identify which parts of their own AP cycle to prioritize for automation first -Identify the manual gaps that persist across the full AP lifecycle and understand the cumulative cost of leaving them unaddressed -Explain how AI-powered vendor management tools can provide real-time visibility into vendor spend, flag renewals, catch duplicate or ghost vendors, and route approval requests automatically -Describe how AI-powered payment automation handles AP workflows smoothly, and how these capabilities connect to the vendor management layer