Case Study: Airbus saves $200K and frees 350 hours with AppZen

Manual operations strained resources and limited strategic decision-making

Airbus, a global manufacturing company, needed to reduce highly manual expense-audit work across its North America finance organization, which spanned accounting, controlling, tax, and treasury. In 2018, the company launched a digital transformation initiative to automate accounts payable and improve compliance, and it turned to AppZen’s Expense Audit solution integrated with SAP Concur to help address inconsistent policies and manual review burden.

AppZen implemented AI-powered expense auditing without disrupting existing workflows, allowing Airbus to review 100% of expenses while reducing low-value manual work. In the first year, AppZen helped Airbus identify policy gaps and high-risk spending, remove over $200K in wasteful spend, and free up 350 auditor hours for more strategic initiatives.

Airbus

Waqas Aman

Financial Project Analyst