Learn How Kimberly-Clark Put Itself in the Top 14% of AP Departments

3 Steps to Turn AP into a Profit Center

Only 14% of Accounts Payable departments are a profit center. (According to the apexanalytix 2021 Benchmarking Survey).

Kimberly-Clark is part of that elite group.

So…we enlisted AP veteran Kevin Jacobik (also an Army veteran and dad) to talk about how Kimberly-Clark does what most companies don’t.

“I am excited about talking with everyone about our 3-step process to move AP from a cost center to a profit center because every company can do this. AP wasn’t always a profit center. There were a lot of manual tasks that kept us busy. As an organization, we embraced change and began implementing technology to, simply put: get stuff done faster. Get software to do the things that wasted our time. No one wants to process paper checks. We sent out 20,000 paper checks every month. Tons of printing, signing, mailing, getting returned checks, calling suppliers, re-mailing. It is not about buying very expensive software or trying something brand new. It is about following a proven plan focused on three key areas: creating a revenue source, identifying control gaps, and removing tedious manual processes. Join the webinar at 2 pm ET on August 5. I look forward to your questions.”

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Pete Erdner
VP of Commercial Operations, apexanalytix

Pete Erdner is the Vice President of Commercial Operations at apexanalytix. Having started with the company in 1999 as a senior auditor, he was promoted to director of audit operations in June 2004, and stepped into his current role in January of 2017. His background is in accounting, and is CPA-certified from the North Carolina Association of CPAs (NCACPA). He is an alumnus of Elon University and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in business and corporate communications. 

Kevin Jacobik
Senior Manager of Procure-to-Pay North America, Kimberly-Clark

Kevin Jacobik is the Senior Manager of Procure-to-Pay North America for Kimberly-Clark where he has responsibility for Accounts Payable, Marketing Services, and Sales & Use Tax. He has been with Kimberly-Clark for 21 years, spending his first 11 years supporting Order-to-Cash before changing gears to lead North American Accounts Payable Operations. During his 10 years leading Accounts Payable, Kevin has guided his team to meet or exceed Hackett Top Performer metrics in areas such as Paid-on-Time, Electronic Invoicing, and Electronic Payments. Kevin graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville with a degree in Finance. He is a Desert Storm and Iraq war veteran and recently retired from the army reserve after 30 years of service.