Client story / Retail

Less invoice admin. More time for your finance team.

A UK retailer’s finance team was spending too much time processing invoices and chasing approvals. We redesigned the workflows and built five automations around its existing systems.

The result

Time back for the finance team.

60%+

less time spent on repetitive finance tasks

5

finance automations delivered

The finance delivery phase took approximately three months. The time saving relates to repetitive finance activities, not the whole department’s workload.

Delivery stage: production-ready automations

Work delivered

Five automations across invoicing, remittance advice, AP approval reminders and document extraction and sorting.

Environment

Microsoft Power Platform engineering, integrated with the retailer’s existing finance systems.

The business problem

More processing was consuming more of the team’s day.

Manual entry, invoice handling and information moving between systems created bottlenecks. Repeated checks and approval chasing drew the team away from exceptions and financial control.

Ignite’s role

From process analysis to engineered workflows.

Ignite assessed and redesigned the workflows, developed the solution architecture and engineered the automations. The work covered invoice generation, partner and international invoicing, remittance advice, AP approvals and document sorting.

System integration, audit traceability and exception handling were part of the delivery, alongside user training, documentation and hypercare.

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