Accounts payable · Production

Clay Lacy Aviation achieves 35% efficiency increase with ABBYY intelligent document processing

The problem

Clay Lacy Aviation needed to automate invoice processing—including routing, approvals, and data entry—across large volumes of twenty different international invoice types with currency conversion, all while adhering to specific business rules.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Invoice initial receipt
trigger
“processed through initial receipt and capture without human contact”
2
IDP line item extraction
ai_action
“ABBYY's intelligent document processing platform accelerates line item recognition, capture, and extraction from complex documents with the highest accuracy”
3
Business rule-based routing
routing
“Invoices are routed to appropriate stages based on built-in business rules”
Reported outcome

ABBYY's IDP platform delivered 100% content accuracy, a 35%+ increase in efficiency since project launch, and 99.5% paperless operations, freeing staff for higher-value work and significantly improving profit margins.

Reported metrics
Content accuracy100%
Efficiency increase35%+
Paperless operations99.5%
Staff time freed for higher-value workfree to direct their time and resources towards more creative, higher-value work
Show all 5 reported metrics
content accuracy100%
efficiency increase35%+
paperless operations99.5%
staff time freed for higher-value workfree to direct their time and resources towards more creative, higher-value work
profit marginssignificantly improves profit margins
Reported stack
ABBYYIDP
Source
https://www.abbyy.com/customer-stories/35-percent-increase-in-efficiency-for-clay-lacy-aviation-with-abbyy-intelligent-automation/
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

ABBYY's IDP platform delivered 100% content accuracy, a 35%+ increase in efficiency since project launch, and 99.5% paperless operations, freeing staff for higher-value work and significantly improving profit margins.

What tools did this team use?

ABBYY, IDP.

What results were reported?

Content accuracy: 100%; Efficiency increase: 35%+; Paperless operations: 99.5%; Staff time freed for higher-value work: free to direct their time and resources towards more creative, higher-value work (source-reported, not independently verified).

How is this accounts payable AI workflow structured?

Invoice initial receipt → IDP line item extraction → Business rule-based routing.

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