The roll-up playbook
One governed payables process across entities while ERP and integration decisions take the time they need.
• Automate faster • Collaborate better
• Pay with confidence
Acquisitions are how the mid-market grows now: US private equity’s middle market recorded an estimated 4,018 deals in 2025, a record share of all PE buyouts. Behind a meaningful share of those transactions is the same finance team — five to fifteen people, no shared-services group, and a new entity to absorb.
Every acquisition creates a debt that never appears on the closing statement: separate invoice inboxes nobody consolidated, vendor masters holding the same suppliers under different names, approval matrices that contradict each other, two or more ERPs with one mid-migration. The standard plan — "we’ll fix AP when we consolidate ERPs" — is the expensive path, because ERP consolidation takes years and AP consolidation takes weeks. This paper is about running AP as one governed process above the entity structure.
IN THIS WHITEPAPER
AP integration debt: what compounds, mechanism by mechanism
The architecture: one AP layer above the entities, while each ERP remains the system of record for its entity
The Day-1 AP Integration Playbook: a 30/60/90-day template for the AP workstream of any acquisition
The Entity-Scaling Test: six checkable criteria for whether adding an entity means configuration or a hire
US and Canada dual-entity notes, and an eight-question diagnostic
STAT CALLOUTS
4,018 — US PE middle-market deals in 2025 — up 16% year over year, at $410.7B in deal value
45% — of finance leaders call ERP/AP integration very important; only 28% are very satisfied with theirs
30/60/90 — the Day-1 playbook: secure, structure and measure the AP workstream of an acquisition
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