Breaking Down Roadblocks to AP Automation: Exceptions, ERP Integration & Hyperautomation


This webinar will take place on:
29 September, 2025
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM EDT


For Shared Services and Finance leaders, the promise of Accounts Payable automation often hits a wall when faced with complex exceptions, siloed data, and integration headaches. Meanwhile, IT executives grapple with ensuring system security, scalability, and seamless connectivity. How can organizations move past these common roadblocks to unlock truly transformative efficiency and strategic value?

Join our panel of experts as we delve into the critical intersection of AP automation challenges and advanced technological solutions. We'll address how to conquer the costly burden of exceptions – from price variances to unplanned charges – and how to achieve unprecedented straight-through processing. The webinar will also explore how embracing a unified hyperautomation platform can elevate your strategy from departmental fixes to enterprise-wide breakthroughs. This holistic approach fosters essential collaboration between Finance and IT, and fixes multiple business process challenges on a single, secure platform.

In short, this webinar will help attendees to:

● Conquer Exceptions for True Efficiency: Learn how advanced automation, including AI and intelligent workflows, enables high levels of straight-through processing even for complex AP exceptions.

● Harness Advanced ERP Integration: Understand how solutions with real-time, two-way ERP integration are crucial for unlocking superior value, enhancing data accuracy, and streamlining financial and IT operations.

● Unlock Enterprise Hyperautomation: Discover how a unified platform can extend automation beyond AP to solve multiple business process challenges, fostering cross-functional collaboration and delivering holistic enterprise value.

Join this webinar to learn to leverage technology not just for process improvement, but for competitive advantage, driving greater visibility, control, and agility across your organization.


CPE Credits

This webinar is eligible for 1.0 CPE credits in the NASBA field of study, Business Management & Organization - Non-Technical. 

To earn CPE credits, the learner is expected to:

- Attend a minimum of 50 mins of the webinar

- Participate in at least two polls 

SSON is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.NASBARegistry.org.



Speakers

Jeff Toman
Senior Director Corporate Controller
Great Dane

Jeff is a CPA with over 36 years of experience in accounting. Now in his 20th year at Great Dane, he manages direct reports for Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Invoicing, Corporate Accounting, Data Analytics, and Fixed Assets. He is also responsible for many aspects of the financial close, including eliminations and the consolidation. At this point in his career, Jeff especially enjoys helping his team develop their skills. He and his wife reside in the Chicago area.

Ernie Labbe
Chief Product Officer
IntelliChief

Ernie Labbe is the Chief Product Officer for IntelliChief. Labbe manages the company’s worldwide professional services organization, collaborating with customers and partners to ensure the successful rollout of IntelliChief’s award-winning hyperautomation solutions. Labbe has spent over 20 years in senior management. His roles focused on customer-facing operations and services for data, voice, and software vendors that have supplied products and services to wireless, wireline, and large enterprise customers.

Catherine "Niki" Yost
Division Controller
Valcom, Inc
Brian Spiro
Vice President Sales
IntelliChief

As Vice President of Sales for IntelliChief, Brian Spiro plays a central role in steering the company’s revenue growth and strategic direction. A core member of the IntelliChief executive team, he is responsible for sales leadership, enterprise go-to-market strategy, and building strong partner alliances that extend the company’s market presence across North America. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise software and technology sales with a strong focus on automation and ERP integration, Spiro brings proven expertise and a consultative mindset to every client engagement.

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