invoice_processing · manufacturing · workflow
Medius AP Benchmark Report: AI-driven invoice automation achieves 99.5% automatic approval routing and sub-2-day processing times
AP teams face paper-heavy, manual invoice processes with bottlenecks, limited visibility, late payments, and time-consuming matching and routing to approvers.
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 entered in AP system
The cycle starts when a PO invoice or non-PO invoice is entered in the AP system.
Tools used
Medius AP AutomationMedius patent pending invoice capture tool
Outcome
Medius achieves best-in-class rates: 99.5% automatic approval routing for non-PO invoices, 96.3% touchless processing rate for PO invoices, and total processing times of 1.4 days (PO) and 2.1 days (non-PO), well below the Ardent Partners best-in-class benchmark of 3.1 days. Chadwell Supply improved from 20% to 89.4% touchless.
Results
Time saved1.4 days
Volume99.5%
Grounding & classification
Source type: generic use case
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