Case Study: Farmland Foods achieves paperless, high-speed accounts payable — 400+ invoices/day and 3 FTE savings with Esker

Enjoying New Levels of Business Process Efficiency With Accounts Payable Automation

Farmland Foods, an international pork processor handling roughly 30,000 invoices per month, needed to cut costs and avoid adding headcount while speeding up, accurately tracking and auditing its accounts payable. Manual processes — including a paper file room and emailed invoices that weren’t linked to SAP — made invoice retrieval, data entry and audit preparation slow, error-prone and labor-intensive.

Farmland implemented Esker DeliveryWare to automate PO, non-PO and freight invoice processing with certified SAP integration. The solution delivered real-time visibility and online access to invoices, cut freight processing from 14 days to 2, increased invoice entry from 150–200 to over 400 per day, eliminated paper filing, saved the equivalent of three FTEs, reduced outstanding AP accruals by $8M and generated an additional $29,815 in discounts.

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