Case Study: Leading Waste and Recycling Services Provider achieves over $2M annual discount capture and ~21% average returns with SAP Ariba (Ariba Invoice Professional & Ariba Discount Professional)

Invoice Automation to Increase Discount Capture Better Manage Working Capital

A leading provider of waste and recycling services needed better tools to manage cash flow and capture early-payment discounts, but a highly decentralized organization made invoice automation and supplier adoption difficult.

They implemented Ariba Invoice Professional and Ariba Discount Professional with Ariba Working Capital Management consulting, promoted discount programs during supplier enablement, and shifted discount accruals to field P&L to incent capture. The program realized more than $2 million in annual discount capture, about 18% of suppliers took discounts (90% of those chose automatic discounts), delivered average annual returns above 21%, and cut missed discounts by more than 95% through regional and supplier-level tracking.