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Automating invoice approval for a building-products distributor. 14 hours a week, returned.

PO, receipt, and invoice were matched by hand across two systems, by a three-person finance team. Now the match runs nightly and flags only the 4% that need eyes.

invoice approval · the match queue
DISTRIBUTION · INVOICE APPROVAL · LIVE ON DAY 19
The leak

What it looked like before. In their words.

DISTRIBUTION
The match by hand

Every purchase order, receipt, and invoice compared line by line, across two systems that didn't talk.

TWO SYSTEMS
The re-key

Quotes re-keyed into the ERP before the match could even start.

RE-KEYING
The team it ate

Three people in finance, fourteen hours a week of it.

14 HRS/WK
The build

What shipped

The match runs nightly. Only the 4% that need eyes reach a person.

A quote-to-PO connector ended the re-keying, and the three-way match now runs itself against both systems every night. Exceptions land in a review queue with the context attached. Shipped day 19, still running in production.

We built a custom AI solution. The matching rules were written and tested against their own invoice history before anything ran live. That is how a build like this reaches production on day 19.

invoice approval · the match queue
INVOICE APPROVAL · THE MATCH QUEUE
exceptions only · reviewed by a person
EXCEPTIONS ONLY · REVIEWED BY A PERSON
The numbers

What moved

14 hrs/wkBACK TO THE FINANCE TEAM
Day 19LIVE IN PRODUCTION
4%OF MATCHES NEED A HUMAN
2SYSTEMS, FINALLY TALKING

The client stays anonymous until they agree to be named. Every figure here was measured in production, and we'll show you how on a call.