Autonomous AP Automation — Global Manufacturing Firm
74%
Invoices processed without human touch
12d→2d
Average invoice processing cycle
6.4%→0.4%
Processing error rate
$1.6M
Annual processing cost reduction
The Challenge
A global manufacturer was processing 14,000+ vendor invoices monthly across 6 ERP systems. The AP team of 22 spent 70% of their time on data entry, matching, and exception handling — with a 12-day average processing cycle and a 6.4% error rate creating downstream reconciliation costs.
What We Built
We deployed an autonomous AP agent that ingests invoices from all channels, extracts structured data, matches against POs and receipts across all 6 ERPs, applies business rules to auto-approve within-tolerance items, routes exceptions to the right approver with context, and posts confirmed invoices — end to end without human involvement for 74% of volume.
“The agent handles what used to take a team of 22. They now focus on vendor strategy and cash flow optimisation instead of data entry.”
— VP of Finance Operations
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