Touch time per invoice
Every manual review, code and re-key adds minutes, and minutes across thousands of invoices add up to roles.
Measure: hours per invoiceOracle Fusion Payables
Cut the cost of every invoice.
Most of what it costs to pay a supplier is people's time: reviewing, coding, chasing approvals and clearing exceptions. Oracle Fusion Payables can take most of that touch time out, and capture the early-payment discounts a manual process lets slip.
82+outcomes delivered for Orbrick clients
500K+life-hours saved
AP processing cost calculator
What is your AP process worth?
Orbrick's Cashflow Unlock formula, applied to your invoice volume: the touch time you could take out, and the discounts you could capture.
hrs
Average hours a person spends on one invoice: review, coding, approval and exceptions. Typical range: 2 to 6 hours.
hrs
Orbrick reference: 0.5 hours with Oracle Payables automation. Use your own target if you have one.
Total supplier invoices across all business units.
$
/hr
Orbrick default: $38 an hour ($80K fully loaded cost over 2,112 working hours). Use your own figure.
%
The discount suppliers offer for paying early: 2/10 net 30 is 2%. Enter 0 if none.
$
Used to value the early-payment discounts not yet captured.
What drives AP processing cost
Four places the cost of an invoice hides.
Each one adds a person's time to an invoice that could have paid itself.
Holds and exceptions
Matching failures and holds send invoices back to a person instead of straight to payment.
Measure: invoices on holdSlow approvals
Invoices that wait in an approver's queue cost time and miss the discount window.
Measure: days to approveMissed early-payment discounts
Suppliers offer a discount for paying early; a slow process pays full price instead.
Measure: discounts capturedFurther reading
More on Oracle Fusion Payables
-
The Invoice Is Only Half the Story: What Oracle’s Payables and Payments Agents Actually Change
What Oracle Fusion's Payables and Payments agents change, beyond processing the invoice itself.
Read the article -
The Modern Guide to Purchasing Workflows: From Spreadsheet Chaos to Autonomous Intelligence
From spreadsheet chaos to autonomous purchasing: fixing the workflow before the invoice arrives.
Read the article -
Accrue at Period End vs Accrue at Receipt: A Comparative guide
Accrue at period end or at receipt: how the choice shapes your payables workload.
Read the article
Watch
From Orbrick’s YouTube channel
-
Invoice and Payables Optimization 9 min
-
Elevating P2P: Better DPO Metrics with Stronger Supplier Relations 54 min
Next step
Find out what your invoices really cost.
A Value Discovery replaces these assumptions with your own Oracle Payables data, and shows where the touch time and the missed discounts actually are.