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Many companies accept slow, manual accounts payable processes as an unavoidable part of operations. Paper invoices pile up, data entry consumes valuable time, and approval delays frustrate vendors.

Chief among them is the e-Invoicing directive, designed to eliminate paper invoicing and establish a single electronic-invoice format for public procurement across the E.U., by November of 2018. The ...

This story appears in the May 1 print edition of Transport Topics. Many trucking and third-party logistics companies still write checks to pay their invoices, but efforts are underway to transition ...