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Accounts payable
Matching an invoice to a purchase order is work nobody claims and everybody does.
A global consumer products company published by Deloitte
Scale of that deploymentGlobal group, centralised accounts payable
92 % of invoices processed untouched
- Time per invoice: from around 30 minutes to minutes or seconds
- Headcount on the processing desk: halved
- Stated target: close to 99% untouched
What stays human, thereCheck against the confidence score, run root cause analysis, handle the outliers.
Read the sourceWhat it costs today75 200 €per year, before
Assumptions behind this figure900 invoices a month · 11 min each · €38 loaded cost
SetupStructured projectSix to eight weeks of scoping, several systems, rules written with your teams.
What it costs, three ways
Today€75,200
A person opens every file
With a copilot€60,200
A person still opens every file, faster
With a bounded agent€14,300
A person opens one file in four
- 75% handled alone
- 10% prepared, decided by a person
- 15% refused by the rule, picked up by a person
Annual gap between today and the agent€60,900
Assumptions behind this figure900 invoices a month · 11 min each · €38 loaded costCopilot gain taken at +20%, the top of the range in the controlled studies.
Modelled from the assumptions shown, not a client result. The 75 / 10 / 15 split is a working assumption: at scoping it gets measured on your own files.
What the agent does, on one case
- 01Reads the incoming invoice and extracts its lines
- 02Finds the purchase order and goods receipt in the ERP
- 03Compares quantities, prices and terms, line by line
- 04Prepares the payment, or escalates the gap with its cause
The indicators we measure before and after
- Cost per invoice processed
- Receipt-to-payment time
- Duplicate payments per year
What we usually connect to
- The ERP or accounting system
- The invoice inbox
- The payment tool
The act that commits
A payment goes out.
The rule that bounds itamount ≤ €5,000 and supplier on file, otherwise human approval
What stays with your team
The discrepancies, the new suppliers, and anything above the cap.
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