Case Study: Panera Bread achieves paperless, remote-ready AP and major time-and-cost savings with AvidXchange

How Panera Bread Baked The Efficiency of Automation Into An AP Process That Keeps Their Bills Paid During The Pandemic

Panera Bread, the fast-casual bakery-cafe chain, faced a slow, paper-based accounts payable process that required a five-person team to print, assemble, route and manually key invoices—work that was time-consuming, office-bound and increasingly unsustainable as the company grew.

By implementing AvidXchange Purchase-to-Pay, Panera digitized AP, reduced daily invoice processors from five to two, and redeployed three employees to strategic roles, realizing time and cost savings. The platform’s strong support, visibility and remote access also allowed uninterrupted invoice processing and oversight during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Panera Bread

Gary Weintraub

IT manager