International Business Machines Corporation

Vincent P Fox

Scotty J Reynolds

Lisa C Fekler

Anthony T Mazzatti

Suzanne M Bennett

Kevin A Boone

Gerard J Lenzo

Joy T Garris

A system and method for processing payment requests submitted in various formats. The system comprises an imaging system for recording paper invoices in a human readable format; a web payment request system for receiving invoice information via a graphical user interface and for generating an electronic invoice; an approval routing system for electronically routing approval requests; and an accounts payable preprocessing system that provides real-time auditing of the electronic invoice to the web payment request system while invoice information is being received.

Invoice processing system

Invoices for goods purchased under a pricing strategy of goods receipt base invoice verification are processed. A matching tool performs a logical three-way match between invoices, and a database tool having goods received receipts and purchase orders. A transfer tool sends the invoices and results of the three-way match to the database when a match is found.

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Vestal, NY, United States of America

Vincent P Fox