Finance operations at Europe's largest independent medical device distributor.
Volume grew faster than AP could scale.
HC21 Group had grown rapidly through acquisitions to become Europe's largest independent medical device distributor. Finance operations — particularly AP and AR payments processing — were facing a scaling wall. The existing manual processes worked, but couldn't absorb further transaction volume without a proportional increase in headcount the Group Finance Controller couldn't justify.
Four components, live on SAP.
Inbound emails automatically parsed, invoices and remittances extracted using AI, routed to the correct approval workflow.
Line-item level matching between invoices, POs, and GRPOs directly against SAP. Built on Microsoft Power Platform so the application shipped in weeks, not months.
Matched AP invoices and matched incoming payments posted into SAP via open-source RPA. No manual re-keying, no wait for a custom SAP integration project.
Finance operations team sees every invoice and remittance centrally, handles only the exceptions, and feeds resolutions back into the matching engine.
Autonomous AP, compounding over time.
“Apridata were instrumental in transforming our finance operations. Their technical capability combined with in-depth knowledge of our business and SAP environment made them a valuable partner in our digital transformation journey.”