Case Study: American Specialty Chemicals Company achieves 90%+ on-schedule payments and streamlined procure-to-pay operations with GEP

How a Fortune 500 Chemicals Company Transformed P2P Operations by Partnering With GEP

A Fortune 500 American specialty chemicals company needed to standardize and speed up its procure-to-pay (P2P) operations across regions. Siloed, ad hoc processes led to low PO accuracy, poor exception management, inadequate reporting and a backlog of more than 2,500 blocked invoices, harming payment schedules, cash flow and supplier relationships.

Partnering with GEP, the company implemented standardized P2P processes, regional dashboards, SLAs and exception workflows, deployed RPA/autobots and formed a 30‑person global support team to manage end‑to‑end accounts payable. Within 18 months they achieved over 90% on‑schedule payments, 94% on‑time PO conversion, PO changes under 10%, a 20% faster invoice turnaround, blocked invoices reduced to 1,143, and now manage ~100,000 POs per year with significantly increased automation.