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AI is no longer an add-on to tax — it's becoming the engine inside the process.
Governments are inserting themselves in real time into your AP and AR workflows, making orchestrated compliance non-negotiable.
The Sovos and Tungsten Automation partnership is turning tax from a liability into a strategic business advantage.
Tax compliance has entered a new era where AI isn’t bolted onto existing processes but is embedded as a native intelligence layer within them. In this episode, Emily Nash-Walker, Senior Director of Product Strategy at Tungsten Automation, and Steve Sprague, Chief Product and Strategy Officer at Sovos, explore how the Sovos and Tungsten Automation are partnering to deliver an integrated workflow and compliance solution designed for the realities of modern indirect tax. Together, they examine how AI agents with precise, scope-driven, auditable outputs are enabling SAP customers to automate tax determination, invoice processing, and AP workflows in ways that simply weren’t possible even three years ago.
The conversation goes deeper than technology. Sprague and Nash-Walker lay out the three forces SAP clients are simultaneously managing: ERP transformation, the rise of agentic AI, and a tidal wave of government legislation driving continuous transaction controls. From Brazil’s pre-filled invoice validation to IRS modernization in the US and e-invoicing mandates across Europe, the message is clear: tax is no longer something that exists outside the business process. It must be smart, continuously updated, and architecturally embedded in everything from procure-to-pay to order-to-cash. This episode is essential viewing for any SAP organization trying to understand what orchestrated compliance looks like in practice.
