Case Study: Atea achieves increased spend visibility and frees 2 FTE with Basware P2P & Travel & Expense Management

Facilitate smarter processes through seamless integration

Atea, the leading IT infrastructure supplier in the Nordic and Baltic regions, needed to modernize its finance and procurement technology while keeping its decentralized purchasing model. The company faced double authorizations, frequent invoice routing confusion, poor search and matching between purchase orders and invoices, and a requirement to integrate cleanly with existing SAP ERP systems — all while demanding a user-friendly, out‑of‑the‑box solution.

After evaluating five vendors, Atea selected Basware’s Procure-to-Pay and Travel & Expense Management suite and completed implementation in under four months, focusing on tight integration with SAP and its complex IT landscape. The new system centralized invoice visibility by delegating invoice posting to departments, replaced manual TEM advances with personal‑liability cards, and enabled single sign‑on. Within three months Atea freed up two full‑time finance roles, achieved higher PO‑to‑invoice matching, stronger spend visibility, and rapid, organization‑wide adoption thanks to the intuitive UX.

Atea

Rune Pind Nielsen

Accounts Payable Manager