2013-01-02 08:52:12 - Representatives from MNC’s across the world are set to gather at this year’s annual P2P Asia summit. Run by renowned organizers SSON (Shared Services and Outsourcing Network), the event will follow a series of highly successful and in-depth topics dedicated to achieving operational and business excellence at every stage of their organization.

Featuring speakers from firms such as Rio Tinto, Allianz, Procter & Gamble and DHL, the event will drill down into how to achieve maximum savings through discount capture, penalty avoidance and lower labor costs. The summit will also explore how to quantify the potential challenges and benefits of automating P2P processes and integrating your AP function with procurement, finance and other back-end systems in order to maximize benefits. With more than 600 shared service centres processing over 1,000,000 invoices daily, this could represent a huge over-haul in the market.

Crucially, the summit is suitable for those at all stages of the journey to P2P automation. Also catered for experts who are at the cutting edge of P2P transformation, the conference

includes workshops which are tailored to those who are still setting up there procure-to-pay programmes. Schneider Electric for example, is directing a hands-on master-class entitled “designing a best-in-class procure-to-pay programme blueprint for companies starting out.”

As the only event in Asia concentrating solely on perfecting the end-to-end process that is for P2P, the summit is a must-attend for anyone looking to save money and improve efficiency within your business. In tough economic times like these, there are few we suspect that can afford not to!