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Proof of concept

Invoice and purchase order matching

Accounts teams compare invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes by eye. The clean ones are boring and the mismatched ones are found late, usually after payment.

A workflow diagram where several systems feed one automated path

What we built

  • Automatic reading of supplier invoices, purchase orders and goods received notes
  • Line by line matching on quantity, rate, tax and total, with tolerance rules set by the finance team
  • Clean matches routed for approval automatically
  • Mismatches queued with the reason stated in plain language, not a code
  • A full audit trail of what was compared and what the system decided

What came out of it

The proof of concept cleared straightforward invoices without human involvement and put the exceptions in front of the finance team the same day they arrived.

Services behind it

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