Accounts Payable, fully in control — powered by AI agents
End-to-end visibility, compliance, and automation with NXT AP, NXT AP Process Mining, and NXT PDF Analyzer.
NXT AP: Autonomous Invoice Processing
A vertical AI agent for SAP, NXT AP combines SAP-native logic with embedded Azure AI to enable true straight-through processing in Accounts Payable.
NXT AP Process Mining: End-to-End Visibility
Gain real-time insights into every supplier invoice — from capture to posting. Spot delays, exceptions, and deviations across your SAP landscape.
NXT PDF Analyzer: Compliant, Transparent Automation
Process invoices from email or PDF with full EU e-invoicing compliance. Extract, validate, and transform embedded XML into structured SAP-ready data, with full traceability via the FIORI/BTP Compliance Console.
Purpose built
for SAP
Real-time,
end-to-end
automation
Unmatched compliance and security
Scalable and
adaptive
Comprehensive capabilities of NXT AP
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Native e-Invoice network integration: NXT AP integrates SAP systems natively with more than 30 national networks, ensuring compliance with the growing number of e-Invoice mandates.
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Real-time Matching and Validation: Enables straight-through-processing (STP) by matching and validating supplier invoice data against complete and current SAP data.
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Seamless Exception Handling: AI-powered workflows streamline approvals, assign tasks, and manage exceptions.
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Advanced Analytics: Provides actionable insights into process performance, compliance bottlenecks, and operational benchmarks via NXT EDGE Analytics.
How NXT AP Process Mining delivers value
AI-powered process mining for SAP — Complete AP visibility, zero blind spots.
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End-to-End Insight: See efficiency, quality, control, and workload across all invoices in real time.
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Efficiency & Automation: Track First Pass Yield, cycle times, and touchless processing to measure performance and automation success.
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Quality & Compliance: Monitor duplicates, rejections, and SLA adherence to maintain strong controls and high invoice quality.
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Process Mining & Bottlenecks: Analyze flows, activity variants, and durations to identify delays, rework, and improvement priorities — supporting accountability across shared services, business users, and IT
See. Understand. Act.
Real-Time AP Performance: Dashboards show open invoices, cycle times, automation rates, and exceptions — always up to date.
AI-Powered Insights: Ask questions in natural language and get instant, structured answers.
Sankey Process Visualization: Track invoice flows, spot delays, exceptions, and automation levels.
Actionable Focus: Filter by path, service, user, or AI intervention to target improvements with maximum impact.
Value for stakeholders
Finance Leadership: Track automation, cycle times, and controls to guide process redesign, nearshoring, and AI investments.
Shared Services: Monitor workloads, exceptions, and team performance to identify training or standardization needs.
Local Business Users: Understand how approvals and data quality impact cycle times and costs, aligning actions with process standards.
IT & SAP Teams: Use a scalable, architecture-friendly analytics layer that leverages NXT AP data without duplicating SAP logic or burdening your ERP.
The NXT PDF Analyzer - a critical compliance component in the NXT AP architecture.
It combines legal robustness, transparent validation logic, and open integration capabilities. For partners, it delivers a differentiating advantage in offering compliant, high-efficiency SAP finance automation solutions.
Purpose and role in NXT AP
Email with PDF attachment receipt
PDF Analyser to detect, extract and validate embedded XML
Azure Document
Intelligence
to extract invoice full-text
Creation of a
parked document
Always compliant. Always accepted.
The Analyzer ensures full conformity with all major EU e-invoicing standards — legally recognized in Germany, France, Switzerland, and across Europe. Compliant with EN 16931, EU Directive 2014/55/EU, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, Factur-X, and Swiss CHF invoicing rules.
Updated with the latest CEN validation (v1.3.14, Dec 2024).
Built for Scale. Ready for Anything.
The NXT PDF Analyzer handles high-volume invoice processing with ease.
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Its asynchronous, microservice architecture scales seamlessly across cloud or on-premise setups.
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Each instance processes hundreds of invoices per hour — validating in under five seconds.
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Resilient by design, with smart retry queues, stateless scaling on Azure, AWS, or Kubernetes, and real-time performance insights via Azure Application Insights.
Transparent. Traceable. Trusted.
The Analyzer gives auditors, controllers, and business users full visibility — every invoice is validated step-by-step with clear version tracking.
The FIORI/BTP Compliance Console shows real-time status, results, and applied rulesets. Quarterly updates keep you aligned with all evolving EU and national regulations.
Extend. Automate. Comply.
The NXT PDF Analyzer expands NXT AP with plug-and-play compliance capabilities — helping partners deliver legally compliant invoice automation with minimal setup.
For SAP integrators and partners:
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Ensure EU-wide e-invoice compliance (DE/FR/CH/EU)
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Offer transparent, audit-ready validation
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Integrate smoothly with FIORI, BTP, and S/4HANA
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Cut manual workload through automation
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Build trust with standardized, verifiable processing
Agentic Finance Automation
NXT4SAP is an AI-native automation platform for SAP Finance that eliminates manual effort, accelerates close and reporting, and enables straight-through processing at scale. It empowers CFOs to run finance as a real-time, intelligent, and autonomous function.
What sets NXT AP apart
Legacy Solutions vs. NXT AP
Feature/Aspect
NXT AP Agent
SAP Integration
Fully embedded in SAP; no external layers.
Data Management
Real-time, native SAP data processing.
Compliance
Adaptive AI-driven checks in real time.
AI capabilities
Leverages Azure AI-services (Computer Vision & GPT)
Speed
Processes invoices in under 10 seconds.
Complex Scenarios
Supports all SAP posting scenarios.
Legacy AP Solution
Standalone systems needing middleware
Redundant data stored externally.
Static rule-based compliance.
Limited OCR and rule-based systems.
Delayed batch processing.
Limited to basic use cases
What are AI agents ?
A Vertical AI Agent is an AI-powered system tailored for a specific business domain—in this case, Accounts Payable. Unlike horizontal AI platforms that offer general-purpose capabilities, NXT AP is deeply embedded into SAP and specialized for processing supplier invoices using native SAP FI/MM processes enhanced by AI.
NXT AP’s vertical integration includes:
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SAP-native document parking, matching, and posting.
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Real-time interaction with SAP data and business rules.
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AI-based reasoning in predefined domains like compliance, OCR-result validation, line-item coding proposal (Non-PO), payment terms optimization, and more.
Why NXT AP is the right choice?
Purpose-Built for SAP:
NXT AP is a Vertical AI Agent designed to leverage SAP’s data and validation capabilities, eliminating redundancies and ensuring real-time, compliant processing.
Real-Time, End-to-End Automation:
Processes invoices from receipt to compliant posting in less than 10 seconds, powered by Azure AI services and SAP-native methods.
Unmatched Compliance and Security:
AI-driven validation ensures compliance with global regulations, all while maintaining data privacy through stateless processing within SAP.
Scalable and Adaptive:
Supports high-volume AP environments across 40+ markets, evolving with business and regulatory needs.
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How NXT AP works – The core stack
NXT AP achieves this by combining three key layers:
SAP-native validation & posting:
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All captured invoice data is validated using SAP’s own methods (e.g., 3-way matching with PO and GR data, tax code checks, etc.).
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Exceptions (mismatches, missing POs, approvals) are routed via NXT EDGE to the right users.
Azure AI Services – embedded, not external:
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Azure Document Intelligence processes image-based invoices using modern AI to extract structured data from PDFs, scans, or even mobile photos.
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Azure AI-models are used to interpret natural language content in invoices (e.g., for payment terms or compliance).
AI Agent Framework:
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Defined tasks are assigned to modular AI Agents (e.g., Payment Terms Agent, Line Item Matching Agent, Compliance Agent) and responses are directly processed in SAP.
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AI Agents are dynamically invoked as subprocesses within the NXT AP flow. They never override rules; they handle edge cases and support human-like judgment in automation.
NXT AP
Empowered Users: Tools like NXT ASK offer 24/7 multilingual support and actionable analytics for better decision-making.
Future-Ready Compliance: Aligns seamlessly with global e-invoicing mandates, ensuring compliance with rapidly changing regulations.
Effortless Deployment: Requires no infrastructure changes and operates on a consumption-based pricing model.
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