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Protect Every Manufacturing Vendor Payment

Manufacturers must pay raw material providers, logistics companies, maintenance partners, utilities, and professional services providers, among a thicket of other vendors. Every single one of those vendors must be paid accurately, securely, and on time to keep production schedules, inventory plans, and customer commitments on track.

For accounts payable teams, that translates to many thousands of payments processed and approved across plants, business units, legal entities, and often multiple ERP systems. It means managing vendor data, complexity, remittance, and a host of processes alongside mandates to embrace AI, control costs, and save time. That's Herculean work for teams that are often stretched thin.

That means modernizing vendor B2B payment processes has never mattered more than it does right now. While manufacturers increasingly buy into smart factories, connected equipment, automation, and AI, that same energy and level of investment must follow for AP, especially with the rising threat of payments fraud.

It's time to move beyond simply prioritizing efficiency. Manufacturers need to protect cash, strengthen working capital, reduce fraud exposure, and ensure every vendor payment supports production continuity and business growth. Every vendor, bank account, and payment must be protected without creating additional work for finance teams. That’s where Paymode can help.

64% of manufacturing organizations experienced a payment fraud attempt within the previous year, and 14% experienced more than one loss.
Source: Manufacturing a Better Payment Process, Bottomline and Strategic Treasurer

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Paymode Offers a Secure Payment Network for Manufacturers

Paymode is used by over 635,000 businesses to exchange over $570 billion in B2B payments annually, with zero fraud losses each year.

The network is built for manufacturers because it scales up with large and complex vendor ecosystems, and because around half of a given manufacturer's vendors are already securely enrolled in the network. In addition, the network provides gains manufacturing Chief Financial Officers care about most, as it strengthens payment and vendor data security, automates payments, streamlines vendor onboarding and support, generates rebate revenue, reduces operating costs, and helps improve working capital performance.

Your vendors benefit from Paymode, too. The network offers secure onboarding, dedicated support, self-service capabilities, faster payment workflows, and enhanced remittance information that allows for faster reconciliation and automated cash application.

Above all, Paymode is designed to help manufacturers protect every vendor payment they make without increasing the strain on their accounts payable teams and processes.

Reduce Risk by Protecting All Your Vendor Data & Payments

Collecting, validating, maintaining, and updating vendor data is one of the greatest sources of administrative work and risk for manufacturing AP teams. Bank account details are especially sensitive, and manufacturers may need to maintain this information across multiple plants, subsidiaries, shared-service centers, and ERP instances.

It only takes one fraudulent bank account change to create significant disruption, and significant disruption is not something manufacturing organizations can afford. A redirected payment can delay vendor funding, strain critical supplier relationships, disrupt material deliveries, impact production schedules, and force teams in finance and beyond into crisis-response mode.

Paymode reduces the exposure and risk associated with vendor data by enrolling, authenticating, holding, and maintaining banking information and other critical records for your entire vendor population. Instead of requiring AP teams to continually collect, verify, update, and protect that sensitive data, Paymode manages vendors from enrollment through ongoing support while providing a streamlined experience with fewer inquiries and frustrations.

This allows manufacturers to:
  • Minimize both errors and fraud risk associated with manual vendor data handling
     
  • Prevent payment-related disruptions that can impact production schedules
     
  • Improve the accuracy of vendor payments and payment records
     
  • Reduce exposure to fraud from account changes and intercepted payments
     
  • Apply consistent controls across plants, entities, and business units
     
  • Strengthen payment security without replacing established ERP systems
     
  • Reduce payment disruption that can put important vendor relationships at risk
     
  • Cut down on the manual work AP teams must manage

Protect Every Payment at Every Stage of the Process

Strong controls, constant monitoring, and comprehensive authentication throughout the payment lifecycle is the only way to secure manufacturing accounts payable. Organizations rely on Paymode to handle fraud prevention in a way that prevents problems for finance and the larger organization. After all, compromised vendor payments can create supply chain disruptions, delay production, impact customer commitments, and expose manufacturers to significant financial and operational risk they cannot afford.

Authenticate Vendors Before Enrollment

Before a vendor is accepted into the network, they're validated and authenticated against over 300 data points, giving manufacturers confidence that their payments will go to a confirmed business and account. Because about half of an organization's vendors are already enrolled in the network, many manufacturers can immediately accelerate their changeover from manual to automated payment processes, and Paymode will work to enroll the rest of your vendor community.

Protect Against Fraudulent Account Changes

Fraudsters frequently target vendors to steal user credentials or impersonate authorized contacts, allowing them to redirect payments. Paymode uses step-up authentication to protect high-risk account actions, with measures that include multi-factor authentication, biometrics, passkeys, and AI-aided pattern recognition to help ensure that only authorized users can make these changes.

Monitor for Suspicious Activity

The network is continuously monitored for activity that may indicate fraud. Paymode combines machine learning, risk signals, and human expertise to identify and halt suspicious vendor activity, account changes, login attempts, and other anomalies that might lead to fraud losses.

Peace of Mind

Manufacturers can make payments in an authenticated network with fewer manual steps and less exposure for sensitive banking data, helping to prevent fraud and keep vendor data safe. That in turn means improved security while reducing the time, cost, and operational friction associated with in-house payment processes for manufacturers.

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Built for the B2B Payment Metrics
That Matter in Manufacturing

Production demands, supply-chain volatility, cost pressure, changing vendor networks, acquisitions, and evolving fraud tactics both define and confine manufacturing accounts payable. The more secure and efficient these teams can be, the better positioned the organization is to keep production on track and cash flowing smoothly.

Manufacturing leaders face tremendous pressure to reduce costs, protect margins, manage working capital, and preserve supply chain stability. They are increasingly exposed to supplier fraud, account takeover, and payment redirection schemes. Rather than relying on internal processes to validate and protect every vendor payment, Paymode provides access to a trusted payments network where vendors, banking credentials, and transactions are continuously authenticated and protected.

Increase Productivity Without Adding Headcount
Enable finance teams to support growing transaction volumes without requiring equivalent growth in AP staffing or operating costs through automation of vendor onboarding, payments, reporting, and other key workflows. AI-aided payment capabilities reduce manual steps and allow AP teams to spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time resolving exceptions, supporting vendors, and improving financial operations to help the business grow and thrive.

Reduce the Cost of Every Payment
Turn to a single digital payments network instead of a web of manual, labor-intensive processes. Automating B2B payments reduces processing and labor costs, while offloading onboarding and vendor support cuts time and money spent handling vendor inquiries. Organizations can save over $4 per check by converting to digital payments and automating related processes, and those savings add up quickly.

Keep Vendor Payments on Schedule and Strengthen Relationships
Late or unpredictable payments can strain vendor liquidity, increase inquiries, eliminate early-payment discounts, and create unnecessary friction with critical relationships. When manufacturers involve automation in their vendor payments, 90% are made on time compared to 48% without automation. Vendors benefit from faster payments, enhanced remittance information, automated cash application, and improved payment visibility.

Protect Every Vendor Payment
Manufacturers cannot afford payment fraud, compromised vendor data, or unauthorized account changes. A fraudulent payment can create a direct financial loss, damage a vendor relationship, and impact teams across finance, procurement, treasury, IT, and operations. By protecting every payment in a secure network and keeping vendor data updated and safe, vulnerabilities associated with checks, mailed bank details, manual account changes, and fragmented in-house programs can be eliminated.

Improve Visibility and Control Across the Business
Get more insight into payment activity, vendor behavior, transaction trends, and key financial metrics across your entire network of vendors, with reporting and analytics that help you establish strong audit trails, monitor payment trends across plants and entities, and make better financial decisions.

Create New Rebate and Discount Opportunities
Select the right payment type for each vendor and convert qualified spend to Premium ACH and virtual cards, driving rebates and earning early payment discounts to create better operational efficiency and offset other AP operating costs.

Easily Connect with Your ERP

Paymode integrates with ERP and general ledger platforms through APIs, file-based synchronization, and dedicated connectors across all manufacturing ERPs, including SAP, Epicor, PeopleSoft, and Oracle.

Accelerate Digital Payments and Processes

Automate your invoice process with Bottomline. Save 75% on processing time, improve visibility, and integrate seamlessly with your ERP.

Decrease Costs

Automate accounts payable while simplifying and securing end-to-end AP processes by eliminating manual steps and insecure paper methods.

 

Shut Down Fraud Attempts

Paymode protects over $500 billion in B2B payments yearly with multi-layered security and fraud prevention. Join 600,000+ businesses protecting their payments.

Improve Visiblity

View, optimize, and forecast your cash position with all accounts connected in one solution and without the cost of a full Treasury Management System (TMS).

Simplify International Payments

Centralize and automate global payments with Payments Hub. Ensure compliance, security, and seamless integration with any bank.

Receive Payments Faster

Protect your business against fraud and get paid faster with Paymode, the largest B2B payments network.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What payment methods are available through Paymode?

Manufacturers can pay vendors using ACH, Premium ACH, virtual card, and check payments.

Premium ACH helps vendors reconcile payments faster by delivering enhanced remittance information while enabling manufacturers to earn cash-back rebates on eligible transactions.

Virtual card payments can be issued through Visa, Mastercard, or American Express, depending on the organization’s card program.

Manufacturers can also outsource check payments through Paymode, with options that support positive pay controls and enhanced remittance reporting.

How does Paymode help prevent payment fraud?

The Paymode network uses layered controls to protect Vendor information and payments.

These controls include validating Vendors against more than 300 data points, monitoring network activity, applying additional authentication to higher-risk account actions, and using machine learning and human expertise to identify suspicious behavior.

Because sensitive banking information is managed within the network, manufacturing AP teams can also reduce the need to collect, store, and manually update vendor account details themselves.

How does Paymode benefit manufacturing vendors?

Paymode gives vendors access to secure enrollment, faster electronic payments, enhanced remittance information, better payment visibility, automated cash application capabilities, and dedicated support. These benefits help vendors reconcile payments faster, reduce payment inquiries, and improve cash flow predictability.

Can Paymode support manufacturers with multiple plants or business entities?

Yes. Paymode can help standardize vendor-payment processes across plants, subsidiaries, and business units while integrating with existing ERP and general ledger environments.

Centralized controls, vendor authentication, reporting, and electronic payment options can help manufacturers reduce fragmented processes while allowing each operation to retain the accounting information it needs.

Does Paymode replace our ERP?

No. Paymode integrates with ERP and general ledger systems rather than replacing them.

Payment and vendor information can flow between the ERP and Paymode, enabling manufacturers to retain their system of record while adding secure payment execution, vendor enrollment, authentication, remittance delivery, and reporting capabilities.

Start Protecting Every Manufacturing Vendor Payment Today

If you are ready to reduce payment fraud risk, better protect vendor data, and modernize AP without adding more work for your team, you are ready for Paymode.

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