Case Study: Albemarle achieves 90% electronic invoice processing with Esker

Gaining Worldwide Automated AP Capability With SAP-Certified Partner, Esker

Albemarle, a global specialty chemicals manufacturer, faced slow, low‑visibility invoice processing across two shared service centers—about 13,000 invoices per month in multiple languages—relying on an aging fax server that couldn’t provide OCR, SAP integration or efficient worldwide scale, which hampered productivity and timely supplier payments.

Implementing Esker on Demand’s SAP‑certified AP automation gave Albemarle OCR, email capture, touchless processing and direct SAP posting, driving a 90% electronic processing rate (paper invoices down from 60% to 10%), increasing average invoices handled per processor from 60 to 85 (with top processors reaching 200/day), enabling electronic archiving and improving supplier satisfaction, productivity and cost savings.

Albemarle

Eric Stratmann

Director of Global MRO Purchasing, Albemarle