How Automating Accounts Payable Yielded Money-Saving Results Paying bills. No one likes doing it, but imagine the responsibility of cutting about 2,500 checks each month — but only after the General Managers and Department Managers have approved every expense — across ?ve stores. That’s what the Accounts Payable team at Peterson Auto Group in Boise, Idaho, used to face. “We’d have to physically take the invoices from store to store or email them and hope that they didn’t get overlooked,” explains Patsy Price, Director of Operations. “ And once a week, we’d do a ‘round robin’ to get the General Managers’ signatures on checks. One day, the stack would go to one Manager, the next day to another. We always said that our process felt a lot like herding cats,” she jokes. Not anymore. Now the Gro

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