Alisa McPhail

Xelix Connect brought together more than 50 senior leaders from across AP, Finance, Shared Services and P2P for a day of sessions, panel discussions, product updates and peer conversation. As with every Xelix Connect event, the goal wasn't to deliver a series of presentations and send everyone home with a notebook full of slides. It was to create space for practitioners to learn from each other, compare experiences and have the kinds of conversations that don't always happen in day-to-day work. ...

At every P2P conference we attend, we always hear how stretched AP and shared services teams are. Query volumes up, headcount flat, and somewhere in the background, a leadership message to "be more strategic." It's well-meaning but it's also hard to square with an AP helpdesk still processing the same types of vendor queries it was processing two years ago. At the Procure to Pay network event, hosted by The Shared Services Forum UK, we ran a live benchmarking session with 40 shared services and ...

At Xelix, we’re always looking for smarter, faster ways to solve complex finance problems. That means pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI - both in our product and in how we build it.

Joining us in this week’s AP Arms is Debra Richardson, Certified Fraud Examiner and Founder who offers training and consulting in the vendor management space. Debra talks about her own personal framework that blends technology, people and best practice to combat the growing threat of fraud in AP, particularly in vendor set up and maintenance.

In this week’s AP Arms, we hear from Martin Ray, Accounts Payable Manager at Superdry, who has led the charge transforming the company’s AP function. Alongside Alisa McPhail, Head of Marketing at Xelix, Martin shares how he used a combination of people and technology to make the AP team the most efficient it's ever been.

Following the release of Helpdesk, Xelix’s brand new Gen AI tool for P2P, we invited Head of Data Science at Xelix, Paul Solomon, to join us for a chat down The AP Arms. Here, Paul provides clarity on the Gen AI topic, helping decipher Gen AI fact from fiction, whilst giving an inside scoop on the Data Science build of Helpdesk.