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title: "Shared services center (SSC): definition | Rex glossary"
description: "A central team that runs transactional finance work, such as AR, AP and cash application, for all of a group's business units."
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# Shared services center (SSC)

A central team that runs transactional finance work, such as AR, AP and cash application, for all of a group's business units.

Shared services centers standardize order-to-cash processes across entities and regions. They may be run in house or outsourced to a business process outsourcing provider.

Their challenge is scale with consistency. Every business unit brings its own customers, systems and exceptions, and procedures written centrally rarely cover every case.

## Related terms

- [Business process outsourcing (BPO) Contracting a specialist provider to run a business process, such as collections or cash application, on your behalf.](https://www.rex.inc/glossary/business-process-outsourcing)
- [Multi-entity AR Running receivables across several legal entities, currencies or ERPs, where the same customer may owe money to more than one subsidiary.](https://www.rex.inc/resources/ar-automation/multi-entity-ar)
- [Agent operating procedure A written procedure that tells an AI agent how to handle a type of work, encoded from the standard operating procedures a finance team already follows.](https://www.rex.inc/glossary/agent-operating-procedure)

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