Case Study: Monsanto achieves 12X VAT recovery and €2M+ reclaimed with Blue dot

How Monsanto Saved Millions on Small Invoices via VAT Automation

Monsanto, a Fortune 500 agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology company (now part of Bayer), struggled with limited visibility and frequent errors in recovering VAT on domestic and foreign travel & expense (T&E) invoices. Local, manual handling and language barriers, plus a legacy outsourced vendor, left significant VAT unclaimed. Monsanto engaged Blue dot to provide an automated VAT-recovery platform that integrates with SAP and SAP Concur to centralize and standardize T&E VAT processing.

Blue dot deployed its automated solution across Monsanto’s Concur and SAP systems, processing more than 300K invoices across 20+ entities in 67+ countries. The implementation delivered measurable gains: approximately €2 million recovered to date, a 12× increase in VAT recovered versus the previous vendor (including ~€100K recovered in the first four months), full compliance and improved audit control, real-time visibility into VAT data, and an 85% reduction in disqualified invoices.

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Bas de Koning

EME Indirect Tax Specialist