Case Study: John Deere achieves streamlined intercompany e-billing and major cost and time savings with Esker DeliveryWare

Optimizing Corporate Billing To Exceed Limits

John Deere, a global leader in agricultural and forestry equipment with ~46,500 employees and operations in 18 countries, faced a common challenge: most B2B invoicing in Europe was still paper-based, creating high costs and slow intercompany workflows. With more than 1 million spare-parts documents exchanged annually (about 100,000 purely intercompany invoices) and differing national legal requirements, John Deere needed a way to standardize and automate billing across its sales offices and 500+ marketing partners.

The company implemented Esker DeliveryWare (since mid‑2005) to automatically generate, sign and distribute invoices as both PDF and machine-readable XML using a rules engine and signature servers. The solution eliminated printing, manual sorting and re-entry, enabled direct partner processing, handled large volumes reliably, and delivered measurable time and cost savings while providing a scalable platform for inbound invoice automation and order processing.

John Deere

Franz L. Fruechtl

Manager, John Deere Central Services GmbH