Case Study: Colas Rail achieves faster approvals and full invoice visibility with Bottomline's Transaction Centre

Colas Rail Automated Electronic Invoicing Solution Increases Efficiency and Control

Colas Rail, part of the Bouygues Group and a leading European rail infrastructure provider, was struggling with a growing paper-invoice workload—over 40,000 invoices annually—requiring time-consuming manual sorting and data entry. This slow, staff-dependent process risked delays, inefficiency and rising costs as the business expanded.

Colas Rail moved invoice processing to Bottomline Technologies’ Transaction Centre, where mail is scanned, OCR-captured, electronically validated and integrated with Colas Rail’s accounting system. The automated solution delivered company-wide invoice visibility, faster approvals, reduced manual administration and processing time, ongoing support and measurable time, cost and environmental savings.

Colas Rail

Christopher Harrison

Financial Controller