Case Studies Finance & accounting

Accounting without routine and decision bottlenecks

55% savings in the finance department of a manufacturing company. Xelto technology took over manual invoice entry, automating approval paths and accelerating month-end close.

Case study: invoice workflow automation in finance
Challenge

Approval bottlenecks and document chaos

Finance teams struggled with manually matching invoices against thousands of acceptance reports and attachments — every discrepancy halted the entire process for hours. Data errors, missing purchase order numbers, or amount mismatches required simultaneous escalation to multiple people, creating constant approval bottlenecks and payment delays. The team spent up to 70% of working time on routine document verification instead of financial analysis.

Solution

Hybrid AI organisation

ICR (intelligent document recognition)/RAG Agents read documents — invoices, acceptance reports, attachments — and automatically detect anomalies: amount discrepancies, missing fields, inconsistencies with the purchase order. Policy Agents verify each transaction's compliance with contractual SLAs and departmental budgets in real time, without human involvement. ML Agents analyse payment history and forecast the cash flow impact of each invoice, prioritising the approval queue by financial risk.

Results

Measurable outcomes in the first quarter

55% & 75%
Cost reduction and faster approvals

Direct 55% reduction in operational process costs alongside a three-quarter cut in invoice approval time — without expanding the team or changing the organisational structure.

100%
Human-in-the-Loop: full automation of routine tasks

100% of routine operations automated — anomalies and exceptions escalated to the CFO with a single click, with full case context and a ready-made action recommendation. Experts decide, AI prepares.

Results measured over a 12-week pilot at a mid-size manufacturing enterprise (ERP: Oracle JDE). Metrics derived from operational audit conducted at end of deployment phase.

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