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
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.
AP processing cost calculator
Orbrick's Cashflow Unlock formula, applied to your invoice volume: the touch time you could take out, and the discounts you could capture.
Average hours a person spends on one invoice: review, coding, approval and exceptions. Typical range: 2 to 6 hours.
Orbrick reference: 0.5 hours with Oracle Payables automation. Use your own target if you have one.
Total supplier invoices across all business units.
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
Each one adds a person's time to an invoice that could have paid itself.
Every manual review, code and re-key adds minutes, and minutes across thousands of invoices add up to roles.
Measure: hours per invoiceMatching failures and holds send invoices back to a person instead of straight to payment.
Measure: invoices on holdInvoices that wait in an approver's queue cost time and miss the discount window.
Measure: days to approveSuppliers offer a discount for paying early; a slow process pays full price instead.
Measure: discounts capturedFurther reading
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.
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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.
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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.
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Elevating P2P: Better DPO Metrics with Stronger Supplier Relations 54 min
Next step
A Value Discovery replaces these assumptions with your own Oracle Payables data, and shows where the touch time and the missed discounts actually are.