HDT Global Streamlines SAP Procure to Pay Processes

Overview

Procurement and payment processing as a military supplier is important to manage appropriately and within the context of company and government business rules. Auditability and visibility are also critical. Having to adhere to rigorous governmental rules coupled with a fast-paced, private equity ownership environment, the invoicing process was a prime candidate for automation at HDT.

With SAP as the primary system of record, any automation efforts required easy SAP integrations while layering on the benefits of workflow control. HDT wanted to not only automate and streamline their procure to pay processes but centralize their AP department to one location.

Key Challenges

Complexities such as PO line-item matching, touching invoices that are normal recurring items, and determining approvers by type of invoice all consumed valuable time spent by accounting personnel. These complexities resulted in: