AP Invoice Automation — Global Manufacturer
79%
Touchless invoice processing rate
14d→3d
Invoice-to-payment cycle time
31→9
AP headcount for same volume
$2.3M
Annual processing cost reduction
The Challenge
A multinational manufacturer processing 22,000 vendor invoices monthly had no touchless processing — every invoice required manual data entry, PO matching, and approval routing. The AP team of 31 had a 14-day processing cycle and could not scale for the company's planned acquisition of three additional business units.
What We Built
We deployed an end-to-end AP automation pipeline: OCR extraction → 3-way PO match → tolerance rule engine → automated approval routing → ERP posting — integrated across SAP and Oracle instances. Exceptions and high-value invoices route to approvers with contextual summaries. The pipeline processes 79% of volume touchlessly.
“We absorbed three business units without hiring a single AP clerk. The automation scaled instantly — the old manual process never could have.”
— Global Controller
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