accounts_payable · media · workflow
Reflections of an AP manager's journey to true automation with Medius
AP teams were overwhelmed by paper invoices and email-based approval chains with no systematic way to connect invoices to POs or route approvals automatically; an earlier scanning solution offered only incremental gains and could not capture line-level data.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Invoice arrives via paper or email
Invoices arrive as paper documents and emails that must be printed and manually sorted.
Tools used
Medius
Outcome
After adopting Medius, the AP team cleared their invoice backlog, enabled mobile approvals for business users anywhere, and one named customer grew from 12 to 18 branches without needing to hire additional staff.
What failed first
A prior scanning solution delivered only a small productivity gain and was limited to capturing header-level invoice data, leaving the core AP workflow largely manual.
Results
Volume12 to 18 branches
Grounding & classification
Source type: generic use case
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