How Canadian AP teams are managing supplier disruption

Canadian finance teams are navigating a period of genuine change. Supplier relationships are shifting, payment terms are being renegotiated mid-cycle, and invoice volumes and exception rates are moving with them. At the same time, CFOs and CIOs are asking harder questions about where their financial data sits and who their technology partners really are.

This session is for AP and finance leaders who want practical answers, not commentary: what’s happening inside the AP function as supplier bases shift, how Canadian businesses are configuring their automation to absorb that change, and where Canadian customer data is actually hosted, plus what that means for your PIPEDA obligations.

What we’ll cover:

• Where supplier disruption is creating AP bottlenecks, and where the real risk sits
• The direct answer to “where does our AP data live,” and what it means for your PIPEDA obligations
• What Canadian tax handling (GST, HST, QST, PST) actually requires, versus what’s a workaround
• How AI-driven matching cuts manual workload as your supplier base changes
• Real examples from five live Canadian implementations, across different ERPs
• 3 questions to bring back to your own team to test whether your setup is keeping pace