AI reads supplier invoices for an FMCG distributor
Large FMCG distributor · Saudi Arabia
The need
The company wanted to automate supplier invoice processing as part of its strategic improvement programme, targeting around 50,000 invoices a year that arrive as PDF email attachments.
What we did
- Built the solution on SAP Build Process Automation on the SAP Business AI Platform
- Extracted the fields needed for invoice entry from PDF attachments using an AI extraction service
- Used the confidence score to decide the path: above 97%, a parked invoice is created in SAP automatically
- Below 97%, a workflow routes the invoice to a user to check and correct the values before it is parked in SAP
The result
A working human-in-the-loop AI process, successfully demonstrated and now being scaled to more than 20 identified vendors. A practical first step towards autonomous finance.