Quick Description

The AP team at this consumer electronics company was good at their jobs. The problem was the system around them. Invoices were coming in from four countries in different formats, vendors were chasing updates by email, and every bill still needed someone to manually key it in, match it, and route it for approval. At ten minutes per invoice, the maths just did not work.

79Consulting brought in AP Genius to fix it. Not just to automate the data entry, but to rethink how the whole process worked, from the moment an invoice arrived to the moment a vendor got paid.

The result was a 90% drop in processing time, 195% ROI in year one, and an AP function that could finally keep up with the business.

What This Means for Finance Teams

If your AP team is spending more time chasing paperwork than managing cash flow, the issue is rarely the people. It is usually the process. When invoice capture, matching, approvals, and vendor communication all happen inside one connected system, the workload does not just get faster, it gets easier to manage. That is what good AP automation actually looks like.

See how it all came together, the workflow setup, how vendors were onboarded to the portal, and the full results from year one.