Long-tail procurement reworked. To really work.
AirPlus and Mazepay have entered into a strategic partnership to offer a B2Bpayment solution optimized for indirect procurement by medium and large-sized enterprises.
This fully cloud-based solution helps you get in contol of your entire long-tail spend.
Our joint solution provides an easy and secure way of empowering the employees to purchase in a compliant way using AirPlus Virtual Cards, while ensuring that all approvals have been completed according to your company’s policy.
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Long tail spend with variousnon-contracted suppliers
Spend per specific contracted supplier
Well-managed by most buyers in ERP and integrated procurement systems where the high costs are worth it.
Direct
Long-tail spend, the huge amount of low-volume transactions with many different, non-contractual and often smaller online suppliers, are ineffective, expensive and not well-managed in more or less all enterprises today.
Indirect
How it works
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Employee makes online purchase using the AirPlus Virtual Card.
Purchase
Employee fills out request form in Mazepay for an ad hoc or subscription purchase.
Request
Based on business rules set up in Mazepay, multi- layer approval is possible (if required). Multi- layering may also be used outside reporting lines (e.g. separate Legal and/or IT approval)
Approve
System automatically delivers an AirPlus VirtualCard to the employee.
Receive Card
Either the employee is notified and uploads the receipt or it is automatically sent into Mazepay in case of a subscription payment.
Upload Receipt(s)
Finance balances and pays the AirPlus statement, based on full documentation within Mazepay.
AirPlus Statement
Finance downloads file within Mazepay for automated posting on a regular basis.
Posting
Audit based on fully documented and complete audit trail.
Audit
Why choose AirPlus Virtual Cards How it works Procurement?
Backed by experience: Our virtual cards are the culmination of over 30 years’ experience providing corporate payment solutions that save time and money.
Easy usage: Set up and make payments in a few clicks.
Security: Apply user-defined controls and maintain 24/7 visibility over incoming transactions.
Convenient transaction handling: Monitor and manage transactions centrally, requiring fewer resources for richer data.
Savings: Benefit from an improved cash flow and manual cost reductions.
Full control: Determine the allowed spending amount for the AirPlus Virtual Cards to ensure your business spend does not exceed the set budget. You also benefit from automatically approved workflows according to your DOA (Delegation of Authority) rules.
Service without borders: A single global contract with one payment solution provider and dedicated local customer service.
Worldwide acceptance: Use AirPlus Virtual Cards for multi- currency payments with millions of merchants worldwide, wherever Mastercard® is accepted.
What the AirPlus partnership with Mazepay means for you:
Make it easy for employees to request a purchase, and make it easy for finance to collect all the information required such as cost-center, purchase category etc.
Dynamic Request Forms:
Approval flows ensure that all approvals are done before
Approval Flows:
All compliance information is automatically collected. This is processed by the Transaction Auditor which highlights transactions which may be worth keeping an eye on.
Compliance and Transaction Auditor:
Enjoy flexible and secure virtual card payments without needing to change screens. Your AirPlus Virtual Card is created automatically in Mazepay during the purchasing process and is SCA exempt, meaning your entire procure-to-pay process can now take place within the same system.
Seamless Payment:
The automated process ensures that all data and documentation about the purchases is collected for easy export to the accounting system.
Accounting and VAT reclaim:
Get a holistic overview of all the subscriptions used throughout the organization while ensuring a seamless payment process to the supplier.
Subscription Management:
Benefits of AirPlus and Mazepay’s joint solution
Finance
Get insight into all long-tail spend across the enterprise, and set up the business rules and approval structure you need the organization to follow.
Employees
The AirPlus and Mazepay solution makes it easy for employees to purchase in a compliant way.
Managers
Approve purchases before they are made in just a few clicks. No need to remember approval limits and feeling uncertain on what to do, when using the AirPlus and Mazepay solution you know that you follow company policy.
Procurement
Manage all the long-tail spend across the enterprise without having to be involved in the individual purchase. Get insight into all the spend across the organization.
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