The $53bn AP Opportunity: Preventing Financial Leakage Before It Hits the Pay Run

About This Webinar

Accounts Payable is one of the most controllable financial levers in the enterprise, yet an estimated $53 billion is lost globally each year through financial leakage in AP. On average, companies lose 0.35% of annual spend to duplicate payments, missed credit notes, invoice errors and fraud. This means for every $1 billion of spend, your organization could be losing $3.5 million. 

The root cause lies in finance functions that remain only partially automated. Mixed invoice formats, shifting ERP landscapes and rising transaction volumes allow small discrepancies to compound quietly across thousands of transactions. Losses are often only identified after payment, not before. The impact extends beyond cash. Retrospective recovery drives rework, supplier friction and limited executive visibility into real-time risk. Even within mature GBS structures, the lack of transaction-level oversight prior to the pay run allows leakage to remain embedded in the process.

“Too many organizations are still identifying financial leakage after the fact, when recovery is costly and impact is already felt. The real opportunity lies upstream: putting the controls, visibility, and intelligence in place to prevent errors before they ever reach the pay run.” – Steve Rudderham, Global GBS Leader

This session will quantify AP leakage in the context of today’s operating realities and examine how prevention can be integrated directly into P2P performance management. It will focus on measurable improvement before cash leaves the business.

What you will learn

• See how leading organizations monitor transactions before the pay run to prevent leakage
  
• Quantify potential leakage exposure using spend-based benchmarks 
• Understand how AI enables proactive prevention, faster root-cause analysis and a more strategic AP function
• Take practical actions to reduce leakage and strengthen controls beyond ERP checks and recovery audits
• Examine how partially automated environments create structural blind spots
• Outline measurable outcomes when prevention replaces retrospective recovery

Register now to assess your exposure and embed prevention directly into your AP performance framework.