invoice_processing · realestate · workflow
Costain transforms its finance department using ABBYY FlexiCapture intelligent document processing
Costain's invoice processing was highly manual — employees printed incoming invoices and sorted them into piles by vendor, straining limited internal resources and preventing the finance team from attracting talent and meeting customer demands.
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 ingested from vendor
FlexiCapture ingests invoices as they arrive from the vendor.
Tools used
IDPRPA
Outcome
ABBYY FlexiCapture processes 400K invoices with 80% straight-through (no human touch), reducing processing time by 9 minutes and generating significant cost savings, while freeing staff for higher-value work.
Results
Time saved9-minute reduction
Volume400K
Cost replacedsignificant cost savings
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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