How we helped a food manufacturing company cut invoice processing time by 93% - turning 30 minutes of manual data entry into a 2-minute review.
Case Study: From Paper Piles to Push-Button Processing
Industry: Retail & Manufacturing
A food manufacturing company handling high-volume wholesale operations was losing thousands of hours a year to a single bottleneck: manual invoice processing. Every paper invoice required an accountant to manually review, key in data, and upload it to their ERP platform - a process taking up to 30 minutes per invoice. With invoice volumes scaling alongside business growth, the team faced an impossible choice: hire more accounting staff, or find a smarter way.
We started where every good solution starts: with the people doing the work. An on-site workshop with the accounting team surfaced the exact pain points, edge cases, and constraints that wouldn't appear in any requirements document. From there, a focused two-week discovery phase let us map the full document lifecycle, audit the existing ERP integration points, and deliver a technical proposal with a reliable, accurate estimate - before a single line of code was written.
The solution we built gives accountants a clean, intuitive web interface: upload an invoice, and an AI-driven processing agent takes over. It automatically detects the invoice format, extracts all required fields using OCR, validates the data, and pushes it directly into the ERP system via REST API. No manual keying. No errors from copy-paste fatigue. Just a brief review before confirming.
What We Delivered
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