Your finance team is in a toxic relationship.

With bad data.

Billing and AP aren’t inefficient.

They’re stuck mediating problems they didn’t create.

The invoice doesn’t match the PO.

The receipt is missing.

The amount is wrong.

So your team steps in.

Again. And again.

This isn’t automation. It’s dependency.

Most billing and AP systems process invoices.

They don’t prevent bad data from entering.

So exceptions become the operating model.

Real efficiency starts upstream.

Because you can’t automate toxic data.

You eliminate it before it enters the relationship.