AI is elevating the possibilities across the Accounts Payable (AP) lifecycle. The data flowing through AP platforms - POs, invoices, supplier interactions and payment behaviour, is now one of the richest real-time financial datasets in the enterprise, and a strategic asset many organisations have yet to fully utilise.

This session will explore how GPOs can support an AP evolution beyond transaction processing to help predict cash, optimise working capital and support board-level decisions.

The panel will map the evolution of AP from transactional execution and operational control through to financial optimisation and strategic decision intelligence, addressing the practical questions GPOs face: where to start, how to standardise, the role of managed services and technology, what happens to teams, and what good looks like at each stage.

Hosted by Springtime Technologies, the session will outline a practical roadmap to S2P Nirvana.

SSON Research & Analytics provides the benchmark metrics that guide top-performing SSO/GBS. This session will introduce two of the "Top 20 Most Admired SSO" list and explain how they make decisions based on industry benchmarks. We will also showcase some of the "Top 20" aggregated metrics hosted in SSON's Research & Analytics platform and explain how they are being used day-to-day.