Optimise your procure-to-pay operations with QX’s UK P2P outsourcing services. Lower costs, reduce manual effort, and scale your P2P process with confidence and control.
Get In TouchThe procure-to-pay (P2P) cycle is repetitive and resource-heavy, running all the way from identifying the need for a product or service to processing the final payment once it is received. When that cycle is outdated or poorly optimised, it slows down approvals, weakens supplier relationships, and quietly chips away credibility.
Leveraging its unique people, process, and platform approach, QX Global Group offers a wide range of P2P outsourcing services suited to companies of all sizes and across industries. Our P2P outsourcing solutions help businesses add agility to the procure-to-pay process, implement intelligent automation, optimise spends, and open up new avenues for cost savings.
From invoice processing and PO management to supplier support and reporting, our P2P outsourced services in UK are designed to bring more structure, visibility, and control to every stage of the cycle, so your onshore teams can shift their focus to higher-value, strategic work.
A well-run procure-to-pay cycle should do more than move invoices and payments through the system. It should give finance leaders better control over spend, cleaner supplier relationships, and the confidence that every payment is accurate and on time.
QX’s P2P outsourcing solutions are designed to close that gap. As an experienced procure to pay outsourcing service provider, we combine process expertise, intelligent automation, and skilled finance talent to bring more structure and visibility to your P2P cycle. Here’s where the impact shows up most:
Free onshore teams to shift focus to strategic functions.
Streamline procure-to-pay (P2P) workflows to increase team efficiency.
Add agility to your processes by implementing technology & automation.
Achieve significant cost savings and efficiency gains by partnering with P2P specialists.
Many modern businesses still struggle with manual data entry of paper-based documents or inefficient processes, which leads to a direct impact on the company’s cash flow and supplier relationships. QX Global Group’s AP and T&E services combine process excellence, best practices and automation to improve supplier management, streamline AP and T&E processes and bring down operation costs.
Read MoreBusinesses dealing with paper invoices often face challenges with the laborious nature of invoice processing, which can often lead to costly errors, duplications and delays. QX’s customised invoice processing services allow companies to optimise their invoicing procedures and implement automation solutions so that their onshore teams can focus on revenue-driven functions.
Read MoreEmail or paper-driven ordering and approval of materials and services is a time-consuming process that puts a business at a risk of major errors. QX’s Purchase Order (PO) Management services allow businesses to digitise and automate the ordering process, streamlining PO process and significantly reducing the P2P cycle time.
Read MoreAs a part of its P2P umbrella of services, QX Global Group also offers highly customisable P2P reporting outsourcing for businesses of all sizes, across industries. Set up a team of dedicated reporting specialists for your business to gain access to in-depth, timely and accurate reports delivered through intuitive dashboards.
Read MoreBuild smoother supplier relationships by providing your vendors with relevant information and responses online through QX Global Group’s Supplier Helpdesk Service. These services help reduce supplier queries, while also rapidly recording and resolving any queries that may arise.
Read MoreCompanies dealing with multiple supplier-related transactions often face challenges extracting data & insights from supplier & item master records. QX’s supplier master management services help clients gain access to accurate supplier/vendor data while allowing onshore teams to focus on strategic functions & reducing operating costs.
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We work with all major procure-to-pay (P2P) and invoice processing software and can easily work with your existing platform as well. Some of the software we use on a regular basis include:
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ISO 27001 compliance for security & ISO 9001 compliant for quality management
A steady stream of qualified accountants through the QX Academy
Stay on top of all accounting jobs with QX Tracker App
Flexible engagement models catering to all requirements, whether big, minor, temporary, or permanent
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions around procure-to-pay (P2P) outsourcing. If you have a question that isn’t answered here, please feel free to contact our sales team – they’ll be happy to help!
Procure-to-pay services cover the full cycle of buying and paying for goods or services, from raising a purchase requirement through to processing the final supplier payment. This includes purchase ordering, invoice processing, approvals, supplier management, and payment support.
An end-to-end procure-to-pay solution typically covers requisition and PO management, invoice capture and processing, PO and invoice matching, approval workflows, supplier master management, payment support, and P2P reporting. Bringing these under one connected process removes handoff gaps, reduces errors, and gives finance leaders clear visibility from procurement through to payment.
Procure-to-pay outsourcing removes much of the manual effort that slows internal teams down, such as data entry, invoice matching, and approval follow-ups. With structured workflows and specialist support handling routine processing, cycle times shorten, errors reduce, and onshore teams are freed to focus on more strategic, revenue-driving work.
Beyond lowering operational costs, procure-to-pay outsourcing improves control over spend itself. Consistent PO discipline, tighter invoice matching, and better reporting help businesses avoid duplicate payments, catch pricing discrepancies, and identify where costs are rising, so purchasing decisions are based on cleaner, more reliable data.
Cost saving is often the key driver for several outsourcing projects. Working with a reliable P2P outsourcing partner can help bring down operational costs by up to 50%. In addition, your business is also likely to experience indirect additional savings through improved process efficiency & accuracy. However, it’s key that you choose the right partner who can deliver both cost savings and overall efficiency.
Automation in procure-to-pay operations speeds up repetitive tasks like invoice capture, coding, matching, and approval routing, while reducing the risk of manual error. Applied to a well-structured process, it improves accuracy and turnaround times and gives teams the visibility to focus on exceptions rather than routine processing.
The right procure-to-pay outsourcing service provider should combine process depth, experience across major P2P and accounting software, and strong data security and compliance credentials. Transparent communication, flexible engagement models, and a proven ability to deliver both cost savings and process improvement are equally important markers of a reliable partner.
QX Global Group’s end-to-end procure-to-pay outsourcing services combine a unique people, process, and platform approach to manage the full P2P cycle, from PO management and invoice processing to supplier support and reporting. With SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, ISO certifications, and access to qualified talent, we help businesses reduce costs, strengthen control, and scale their P2P operations with confidence.
Vendors covering purchase order raising, amendment and tracking alongside supplier onboarding, verification and master data maintenance. Clean supplier data and disciplined PO management prevent a large share of downstream invoice exceptions, so ask how master data is maintained rather than only how purchase orders are processed.
Providers experienced with three-way matching at volume, since inventory movement makes exceptions frequent in these sectors. Coverage should span requisitions, purchase orders, goods receipt matching, invoice processing, approvals, supplier queries and payment preparation. Ask specifically how matching exceptions are investigated, aged and resolved rather than accumulated.
Providers able to automate requisitions, purchase orders, invoice capture, matching and approval routing within your existing ERP. Supplier data and coding rules should be cleaned first, because unreliable master data undermines straight-through processing rates immediately. Ask what matching rates comparable clients achieved after implementation.
Providers handling expenses alongside accounts payable, using a dedicated expense platform for validation, receipt checking and exception flagging. Consistent enforcement matters more than stricter rules, so ask how policy breaches are escalated rather than quietly approved, and whether reporting identifies where spend leakage recurs across departments.
Partners treating cleansing as a defined project covering duplicates, coding errors, unmatched balances, ageing anomalies and inaccurate master data. This usually needs completing before automation delivers value, since automating a poor-quality ledger accelerates existing errors. Confirm how ongoing data maintenance continues once the initial cleanse finishes.
Partners operating a dedicated accounts payable helpdesk that investigates missing invoices, credit notes, duplicates and disputed balances. Queries should be logged, aged and closed against defined service levels rather than handled informally. This protects supplier relationships and removes a persistent interruption from internal finance teams.
Providers using automated capture and matching alongside standardised coding rules and disciplined exception management, typically achieving thirty to forty percent faster processing with accuracy above ninety-nine percent. Ask how ageing exceptions and stalled approvals are chased, since these usually cause delays rather than data entry speed.
Providers combining automated capture and matching with structured workflows and multi-level review, maintaining accuracy above ninety-nine percent at volume. Ask how exceptions are routed, aged and closed against service levels, since accumulating exception backlogs are where accuracy and supplier relationships deteriorate as volumes grow.
Providers able to automate invoice capture, coding, two-way and three-way matching and approval routing within your existing finance system. Processing typically runs thirty to forty percent faster with high accuracy. Ask how stalled approvals are chased, since automation gains are frequently lost at the approval stage.
