NXT EDGE is a Vertical AI Agent tailored to optimize accounts payable (AP) processes within SAP. It ensures 100% automatic parking of all invoices, whether PDF-based or electronic, leveraging real-time integration with Azure AI services, including Document Intelligence and GPT models. NXT EDGE excels in automating invoice capture, matching, and validation, ensuring accuracy and compliance at the data entry stage.

Key features include:

Automatic Invoice Retrieval: Invoices are automatically retrieved from dedicated Outlook365 mailboxes and from more than 30 national e-invoice networks. This ensures smooth integration of both electronic and image-based invoices into the AP process.
Comprehensive Invoice Parking: All invoices are parked in SAP without manual intervention, regardless of format.
Matching and Validation: Validates invoice data by matching it against current SAP data, including supplier master data, purchase orders, and goods receipts.
Global Compatibility: Processes invoices in more than 40 languages and complies with diverse e-invoicing mandates.
Secure Integration: Operates entirely within SAP, ensuring data privacy by avoiding external data transfers or middleware.

NXT EDGE is ideal for:

High-Volume Shared Service Centers: Automating the retrieval, parking, matching, and validation of supplier invoices.
Global Enterprises: Managing invoices from multiple geographies and complying with local and international e-invoicing mandates.
SAP-Centric Organizations: Needing real-time automation for invoice capture and validation directly within SAP.
Companies Using Existing Approval Systems: Enhancing the invoice parking stage without altering existing exception handling and approval workflows.

NXT EDGE addresses key challenges in AP processes:

Invoice Capture Complexity: Automates the retrieval of invoices from both email inboxes and national e-invoice networks, streamlining the process.
Parking Bottlenecks: Ensures all invoices, whether complete or incomplete, are parked in SAP in real-time, reducing delays.
Data Accuracy Risks: Validates and matches invoice data against SAP’s current master and transactional data, minimizing errors.
Global Scalability: Supports compliance with various national e-invoicing mandates and handles multilingual invoice processing.
Integration Overhead: Embeds natively in SAP, eliminating the need for middleware or external infrastructure.

NXT EDGE focuses on invoice capture, parking, matching, and validation, seamlessly integrating these processes into SAP while leaving exception handling and approvals to existing workflows. It enables organizations to streamline AP processes, improve efficiency, and ensure compliance with minimal disruption to their current systems.

NXT EDGE for SAP

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