1 WHY DATASERV When Wente Family Estates, the oldest, continuously operated family-owned winery in the United States, started utilizing DataServ’s Purchase to Pay (P2P) solution to automate their accounts payable (AP) process in 2009, their ERP at the time didn’t have the ability to match purchase orders (POs) to invoices so, consequently, they used very few POs. Wente turned to DataServ so that they could have control of their invoices and to easily get them routed and approved. “In the beginning, DataServ essentially served as our filing cabinet and approval source,” says Sebby Hansen, Wente’s Accounting Manager. However, her vision for what DataServ could do for her AP department was much grander than that. Hansen wanted to take advantage of POs in Wente’

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