Case Study: Applegreen achieves streamlined invoicing and automated Accounts Payable with Kefron AP

How a roadside retailer reimagined its multisite invoice challenge

Applegreen, a fast-growing motorway service area operator with over 200 sites across Ireland, the UK and US, struggled with an outdated Accounts Payable process that handled tens of thousands of invoices monthly. The volume and variety of paper and electronic documents, frequent duplicates, missing supplier details and long manual sorting led to poor visibility and average invoice processing times of about 40 days — so Applegreen engaged Kefron and its Kefron AP solution to automate and streamline invoicing.

Kefron implemented Kefron AP, a hosted portal using OCR, automated data extraction, workflow routing, duplicate detection and company-code inference, plus web access and staff training. The Kefron solution cut the invoice queue by nearly 80%, reduced average processing time from weeks (around 40 days) to hours, kept company-code fallout under 20%, and significantly lowered paper use, duplicates and manual errors after going live in March 2017.

Applegreen

Sandrine Tugler

Accounts Payable Manager