On October 7, 2025, Covoro hosted a special webinar for enterprise leaders and finance professionals in Malaysia to illustrate how Agentic AI is transforming Accounts Payable (AP) automation. The session, with Mr. Rahul Dev Swarnkar, CRO at Covoro and AP automation expert, had an involved audience motivated to upgrade their AP processes and compliance.
Global AP Automation Trends: The Need for Transformation
The webinar began with a captivating discussion on global AP automation trends, highlighting the impressive speed of adoption. In 2020, not even 20% of corporations had automated AP processes, and by 2025, that percentage will exceed 60% and by 2030, that percentage is set to reach 85-90% +.
The impetus for rapid adoption is due not only to the pressure of digital transformation but also to advances in AI, cloud-based computing, and the increasingly complex regulatory compliance legislation worldwide. The AP automation market is projected to grow from USD 1.5 billion in 2020 to over USD 20 billion by 2030, equating to an annual growth of greater than 18% - an enormous indicator of the need to modernize AP workflows as a business strategyConfronting the AP Challenges Facing Malaysian Enterprises
- 1Dealing with invoices manually is still an expensive and error-prone process, leading to financial strain and operational inefficiencies.
- 2The time it takes for approval processes to go from approval to payment can be excruciating, often weeks, while impacting cash flow and opening up to potential penalties.
- 3On top of this, a lack of visibility into the entire payment cycle equates to lost opportunities for early payment discounts and very little control over your financial operations.
- 4Mistakes in invoices happen routinely, which delays payment, incurs cost, and damages relationships with your vendors.
- 5If you are not employing intelligent automation, your organization is at a much higher risk of fraud, which represents millions of dollars lost each year in cities and countries around the globe.
The Evolution of AP Automation: Enter Agentic AI
Contrasting traditional and robotic process automation methods, the Covoro team introduced Agentic AI as a revolutionary leap forward, offering fully autonomous, self-learning, and decision-capable automation.
- 1Receiving and Classifying Invoices: Agentic AI receives invoices autonomously from a variety of channels (email, portals, APIs), and classifies and extracts the data with near-perfect accuracy using its sophisticated OCR and NLP solutions.
- 2Verification and Compliance: The data goes through verification, including purchase orders, contracts, and tax compliance mechanisms, to achieve an overall compliance rate of 99% and escalate any issues to the right department.
- 3Autonomous Exception Handling: The platform independently handles over 85% of all exceptions in real-time, with suppliers communicating about fixes and discrepancies. The functionality of AI removes routine manual work from the finance team.
- 4Dynamic Approvals: Approved invoices are across paid for the value and risk adjusted seamlessly. Processing transactional data into the ERP solution occurs nearly immediately.
- 5Continuous learning with reporting features: The AI ecosystem continues to evolve, benefiting from learning from transactions continuously, and improves the reporting, monitoring, to action for compliance purposes.
This agentic approach significantly outperforms legacy automation by drastically reducing human workload, slashing processing times from minutes to seconds, and bolstering accuracy.
Success Story Highlights
A single worldwide corporation utilizing Covoro's Agentic AI platform realized outstanding benefits:
- 1Substantial decreases in employee workload and operating expenses.
- 2Dramatic increases in invoice processing times which improved payment cycles.
- 3Better fraud detection and improved collaboration with vendors - all resulting in financial and operational value.
Engaging the Audience
The session’s interactive features included:
- 1Polling that involved participants sharing their experiences with challenges related to AP, and how prepared they felt about automation.
- 2A live Q&A session, where attendees shared their thoughts on practical integration and regulatory preparation.
- 3Active chat to share experiences and input to enhance participants’ shared knowledge.
Why Covoro is the AP Automation Partner of Choice
Covoro’s strengths include:
- 1Advanced Agentic AI technology adapted for compliance and business operations relevant to the Malaysian context.
- 2All-in-one solutions for document management services, fraud detection services, and resiliency in vendor collaboration.
- 3Strong experience in defining cost savings and improving enterprise resiliency in a rapidly changing world.
Take the Next Step: Experience Agentic AI Firsthand
With enterprises facing heightened complexities in finance and compliance, automation becomes a question of necessity, not an option. Covoro welcomes Malaysian enterprises that are ready to move beyond manual bottlenecks and improve the efficiency of AP to ask for a tailored demo. Learn more about how Agentic AI can revolutionize your invoice-to-pay, giving you faster approvals, improved accuracy, and strategic empowerment.
Contact Covoro today to begin your automation journey and unlock the future of finance operations.