Process Automation Consulting Guide
An accounts payable team at a professional services firm hired a consultant to automate invoice processing. The scope looked clean: structured PDFs, a consistent vendor list, a known ERP destination. Discovery took one week. The exception inventory surfaced forty-three vendor formats instead of the expected twelve, and one vendor in the top ten by volume formatted line items across two rows in their PDF rather than one. That single variance meant the parser split a combined line into two separate charges and calculated a different total on every invoice that vendor sent. ...