Case Study: Leading Education Publisher achieves 30%+ AP cost savings and paperless processing with Datamatics' end-to-end AP solution

Account Payables Optimization for a Leading Education Publisher

Leading Education Publisher, a multinational education and publishing company (revenue $5.1B, 35,000 employees) needed to optimize its accounts payable function to process roughly 250,000 invoices annually and eliminate time‑intensive, manual tasks (misplaced invoices, slow routing, exception handling and paper‑based expense reports). The customer engaged Datamatics to modernize and automate its AP operations.

Datamatics delivered a centralized, end‑to‑end AP outsourcing solution—covering mailroom-to-check printing, high‑volume scanning, eInvoicing into the customer’s SAP system, automated exception handling with escalation/helpdesk, scalable resourcing and dashboards. As a result Datamatics helped achieve a paperless AP office, automated processing of 250,000 invoices, saved operational costs by over 30%, improved early‑payment discount capture, enhanced cash flow and reduced days outstanding while strengthening vendor relationships.