Case Study: Butagaz achieves 2 hours/day productivity gain and streamlined accounts payable with Esker

Increasing Productivity & Efficiency with AP Automation

Butagaz is a French multi-energy provider (propane, butane, natural gas, electricity and wood pellets) and a DCC subsidiary with 800 employees and €1 billion in revenue serving B2C and B2B customers. Its Accounting Department manually processed about 20,000 invoices a year, creating heavy postal mail traffic, poor workload visibility and invoice traceability, and strained supplier relationships—prompting a move to digitize the procure-to-pay cycle starting with accounts payable.

Esker’s Accounts Payable automation was integrated with Butagaz’s SAP system in a few months, routing email invoices to a common inbox and scanning paper invoices so teams can validate with one click and have invoices instantly available in SAP. The deployment eliminated postal exchanges, simplified internal approvals, saved about two hours per day for the AP team, improved visibility and tracking with dashboards, reduced duplicate payments and boosted employee satisfaction.

Butagaz

Nicolas Rousseaux

IT Project Manager