Managing Accounts Payable

Does this sound familiar? You read in the pages of MAP about all of the impressive things that other AP departments are doing. Or you go to a conference and see all of the exciting new solutions designed to make your AP department run at peak efficiency. You get all pumped up to tackle a new project and shake things up, and then reality hits you smack in the face. You’re back at work, bogged down by day-to-day tasks, and you begin to think, "What’s the point of making new plans? AP never gets any money, anyway." So your dream fades away. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says one AP pro.