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Putting the AP in hAPpy

Putting the AP in hAPpy

By: Debra R Richardson
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A weekly podcast providing fraud prevention and vendor setup training to protect the vendor master file. Immediate takeaways with actionable steps you can implement today into your vendor onboarding and maintenance process to reduce fraud and regulatory fines. Great tips for the Accounts Payable and Procurement teams to clean-up their vendor data, clean-up their vendor processes so that they can pay the right vendor.

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  • Episode 359: Vendor Is Not Registered in Their State? Here’s What To Do Next

    Episode 359: Vendor Is Not Registered in Their State? Here’s What To Do Next
    Oct 9 2025

    If one of your vendor validations is checking with the State of your vendor but find that the vendor is not registered with the State of their address….now what?

    Keep listening.

    Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team.

    Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources:

    • Find States Your Vendor is Registered In: Open Corporates
    • Free Download: 5 Steps to Improve Your Vendor Callback Process https://training.debrarrichardson.com/confirmation
    • Get the Vendor Callback Confirmation Toolkit(TM) Today: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/course/callback-confirmation-toolkit
    • Customized Vendor Validations Session: https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-session
    • Free Download: Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-download
    • Vendor Process Training Center - https://training.debrarrichardson.com
    • Customized Fraud Training: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/customized-fraud-training
    • Free Live and On-Demand Webinars: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/webinars
    • Vendor Master File Clean-Up: https://www.debrarrichardson.com/cleanup
    • YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqeoffeQu3pSXMV8fUIGNiw
    • More Podcasts/Blogs/Webinars www.debrarrichardson.com
    • More ideas? Email me at debra@debrarrichardson.com
    • Music Credit: www.purple-planet.com
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    14 mins
  • Episode 358: 3 Ways AI In Your Existing Automation Software Can Help The Vendor Team That You May Not Have Thought About

    Episode 358: 3 Ways AI In Your Existing Automation Software Can Help The Vendor Team That You May Not Have Thought About
    Oct 2 2025

    Many automation software platforms including email to invoicing have artificial intelligence embedded in them. You may not think that email or invoicing software can help fight fraud in the vendor process, but yes they can and here’s how...

    Keep listening.

    Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team.

    Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources:

    • Free Download: 5 Steps to Improve Your Vendor Callback Process https://training.debrarrichardson.com/confirmation
    • Get the Vendor Callback Confirmation Toolkit(TM) Today: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/course/callback-confirmation-toolkit
    • Customized Vendor Validations Session: https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-session
    • Free Download: Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-download
    • Vendor Process Training Center - https://training.debrarrichardson.com
    • Customized Fraud Training: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/customized-fraud-training
    • Free Live and On-Demand Webinars: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/webinars
    • Vendor Master File Clean-Up: https://www.debrarrichardson.com/cleanup
    • YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqeoffeQu3pSXMV8fUIGNiw
    • More Podcasts/Blogs/Webinars www.debrarrichardson.com
    • More ideas? Email me at debra@debrarrichardson.com
    • Music Credit: www.purple-planet.com
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    26 mins
  • Episode 357: The Riskiest Scams For This Age Group is Fake Jobs – How the BBB Recommends You Avoid Them

    Episode 357: The Riskiest Scams For This Age Group is Fake Jobs – How the BBB Recommends You Avoid Them
    Sep 25 2025

    If you are in this age group (or not) and looking for a job…..

    Keep listening.

    Check out my website www.debrarrichardson.com if you need help implementing authentication techniques, internal controls, and best practices to prevent fraudulent payments, regulatory fines or bad vendor data. Check out the Vendor Process Training Center for 116+ hours of weekly live and on-demand training for the Vendor team.

    Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources:

    • VMF Tip of the Week Video: Is It A Scam? The BBB Scam Tracker May Be Able to Tell You https://youtu.be/y_d6QVlqcSY
    • BBB Scam Tracker: https://www.bbb.org/scamtracker
    • BBB Scam HQ: https://www.bbb.org/all/scamtips
    • BBB New Scam Alert Emails (Sign-Up): https://signup.e2ma.net/signup/1900156/1902645/
    • Get the Vendor Callback Confirmation Toolkit(TM) Today: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/course/callback-confirmation-toolkit
    • Customized Vendor Validations Session: https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-session
    • Free Download: Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-download
    • Vendor Process Training Center - https://training.debrarrichardson.com
    • Customized Fraud Training: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/customized-fraud-training
    • Free Live and On-Demand Webinars: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/webinars
    • Vendor Master File Clean-Up: https://www.debrarrichardson.com/cleanup
    • YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqeoffeQu3pSXMV8fUIGNiw
    • More Podcasts/Blogs/Webinars www.debrarrichardson.com
    • More ideas? Email me at debra@debrarrichardson.com
    • Music Credit: www.purple-planet.com
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    24 mins
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