Introduction to Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator

Purchase-to-Pay process

Purchase-to-Pay is the process from a buyer’s perspective of buying, receiving, paying, and accounting for goods. The process starts with a purchase request and ends with the payment of the invoice and includes all confirmation and checking steps in between. It is one of the core processes in an organization and is typically performed by multiple departments. Important artifacts of the Purchase-to-Pay process are purchase requisitions, purchase orders, receipt of the goods, and the invoice.

Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator

The Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator gives process owners, business users, and RPA teams the capacity to discover automation potential and to fast-track process improvement initiatives by monitoring KPIs in the Purchase-to-Pay process. It simplifies process analysis and monitoring for procurement and accounts payable stakeholders through predefined metrics (such as throughput times and on-time delivery rates) and dashboards tailored to business outcomes critical to the success of their respective departments. The Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator allows the analysis of both the Procurement and Accounts payable perspectives on the Purchase-to-Pay process. Multiple views on the end-to-end process are available, tailored to the needs of each stakeholder.

The Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator turns raw process data from the source system into actionable and automatable insights. The integration with UiPath Automation Hub makes it possible to discover and prioritize activities that are the best automation candidates, implement RPA, and monitor the outcomes in the Purchase-to-Pay process.

Note: If you only want to analyze the Procurement process or the Accounts payable process, you can disable the dashboards in the Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator for the part you do not want to use. In this case, in the Connector you only load the data that is used in the Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator.

Customizing the Purchase-to-Pay Discovery Accelerator

See App and Discovery Accelerator development.