Case Study: Krones achieves seamless cloud AP automation with Serrala

Krones unifies AP automation across 4 countries with Serrala

Krones, a packaging company with 9,000 employees, faced mounting operational complexity after acquiring a plant in Mexico. The surge in invoice volumes strained their manual accounts payable workflows, a challenge worsened by the difficulty of uploading documents to the Mexican government's e-invoice platform. They needed an AP automation solution from vendor Serrala that could guarantee security, efficiency, and compliance with local regulations.

Serrala implemented its Alevate AP solution, which was fully integrated with Krones' SAP S/4HANA systems and their SOVOS e-invoicing platform using pre-built APIs. This provided a single, global AP automation solution that handles invoice capture, processing, and payments across multiple geographies. The results include seamless e-invoice processing for Mexican compliance, automatic invoice matching to reduce manual work, and accelerated approval workflows. Serrala's solution also embedded payment controls and automatic validation against master data and e-invoicing mandates.

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