£135M annual cost saving from supplier invoice assurance.

Business requirements & challenges

Business requirements & challenges

No single source of truth existed for commercial invoices received from third-party suppliers. Multiple inventory systems for global vs domestic products and multi-linguistic invoices made end-to-end cost validation manual and error-prone.

• No single source for commercial invoices from suppliers
• Multiple inventory systems with poor data quality
• Normalising multi-linguistic invoices from global geographies
• Identifying quick-win cost savings while standing up the process

Solution

Solution

Aggregated all received invoices into a single normalised database. Automated network polling established a BAU process for incremental opportunity identification. An automated reporting framework tracked revenue-assurance progress and exposed opportunities for action.

• Single normalised invoice database
• Automated network polling for incremental opportunities
• Reporting framework tracking RA progress
• Periodic audits to ensure supplier bill-stop completion

Business benefits

Business benefits