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How Cost Validation Helps Grocers and Retailers Prevent Misspending, Preserve Profit Margins, and Control Costs

In the grocery and retail industry, costs are high and profit margins are low. The trouble is that all too many companies end up losing money when the prices on vendor invoices don’t match what they expected to pay. In this article, Ben Spiegel, Ottimate’s growth product manager, shares how cost validation tools in an […]

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Attain Business Financial Goals and AP Visibility for Senior Leaders

How AP Automation Helps Organizations Achieve Business Financial Goals and Increases Visibility for Senior Leaders (Don Dittmar Part 3) Previously in this SME interview series, Ottimate VP and Head of Product Don Dittmar revealed how AP automation provides new insights into spending, expedites invoice processing, and simplifies statement reconciliation. In this final installment of his

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Spend Visibility, Statement Management, and Vendor Relationships

Improving Spend Visibility, Statement Management, and Vendor Relationships with AP Automation (Don Dittmar Part 2) In the first part of this series, our Vice President and Head of Product Don Dittmar revealed how Ottimate began in the restaurant industry, expanded into grocery, retail, and other areas, and created specific AP automation solutions for those spaces.

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Heritage Grocers Group

Heritage Grocers Group

Meet Heritage Grocers Group (HGG) Download the case study today Managing the rising number of invoices and financial documents became difficult for HGG as it operated 115 stores across four grocery chains. The company’s traditional, manual accounts payable (AP) process involved receiving paper invoices from stores, transporting them to a central AP department, and manually

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Machine Learning Benefits for Grocery and Hospitality

How Machine Learning Benefits Grocery and Hospitality Organizations (Don Dittmar Part 1) Companies in many industries are still relying on manual workflows in their AP departments, while others have digitized some documents. The new generation of AI-driven automation solutions have the promise to transform procure-to-pay processes in both scenarios. In this second installment of our

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Expanding AP Automation Enterprise-Wide and Transforming Spend Management

Expanding AP Automation Enterprise-Wide and Transforming Spend Management (Joe Lombardi Part 3) Earlier in this SME interview series, Joe Lombardi, Ottimate’s manager of solutions engineers, told us how accounts payable departments are optimizing workflows and integrating AP automation tools with ERP systems. In this third and final installment, Joe reveals how Ottimate can create enterprise-wide

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