Every vendor sends a different invoice
Invoice layouts and required fields vary. Staff repeatedly read documents and enter the same information into several systems.
Industry automation
Keep essential business processes moving across sites and systems.
Reduce the manual work behind vendor invoices, supporting documents, approvals and financial reporting. Xalta connects business workflows so teams spend less time moving information between applications.
Talk to Our TeamIndustry challenges
Vendor-heavy operations generate large volumes of documents and approvals. Separate systems and local working methods make routine work harder to manage across business units.
Invoice layouts and required fields vary. Staff repeatedly read documents and enter the same information into several systems.
Teams switch between document management, finance applications and email to validate one invoice.
Invoice copies and purchase order references arrive in shared inboxes and folders. Duplicate or misplaced files create extra checks.
Account codes, routing and validation requirements change by vendor or unit. Rules held in individual spreadsheets are difficult to apply consistently.
Where we help
Focus first on the administrative work around suppliers, finance and internal service teams. Each workflow has defined inputs, ownership and review steps.
Accounts payable
Read invoice PDFs, extract required fields and prepare records for validation.
Low-confidence or missing information goes to an AP reviewer.
Finance operations
Apply vendor rules, prepare account entries and update the approved finance systems.
Finance owns coding rules and approval authority.
Document operations
Collect email attachments, check for duplicates and place documents in the correct folders.
Unrecognised documents are held for review.
Procurement support
Compare invoice information with available vendor and purchase order records.
Supplier changes and disputed invoices stay with the responsible team.
Reporting
Collect agreed data, standardise files and prepare recurring finance reports.
Finance reviews totals and signs off the final report.
Shared services
Coordinate approved employee record changes and supported access removal.
HR and application owners approve the triggering request.
Relevant solutions
Apply document, finance and support automation to the business systems behind energy and utility operations.
Accounts payable
Capture invoices, apply business rules and prepare approved data for finance system updates.
Explore solutionDocument handling
Extract information from varied vendor layouts and send uncertain fields to a reviewer.
Explore solutionFinancial control
Compare records across agreed finance sources and organise differences for investigation.
Explore solutionCustomer and supplier support
Handle defined routine calls and pass complex or sensitive requests to a team member.
Explore solutionShared services
Remove supported business-application access following an approved employee departure.
Explore solutionAutomation modernisation
Move existing automations through discovery, conversion, testing and controlled release.
Explore solutionServices for this industry
Choose the support you need, from assessing the workflow to building, integrating and maintaining it.
Identify useful automation opportunities in AP, document handling and shared services across business units.
Explore serviceConnect document management, finance applications, shared drives and approved business interfaces.
Explore serviceAutomate invoice checks, account entry preparation and recurring reports with clear exception handling.
Explore serviceExtract vendor document information and coordinate tasks with defined business rules and reviewer input.
Explore serviceMaintain production workflows as vendor formats, application screens and processing rules change.
Explore serviceEnergy workflows can use document automation, existing finance applications and Microsoft 365 tools. The approach is selected around your systems and operating rules.
| Layer | Approach | Controls |
|---|---|---|
| Invoice processing | Automation Anywhere A360 and Document Automation for invoice intake and extraction. | Review fields below the agreed confidence threshold before processing continues. |
| Energy finance systems | DocVue and OGSQL/OGSYS integration in the oil and gas workflow. | Apply vendor-specific rules and route failed entries back to the AP team. |
| Document backup | Power Automate, AI Builder, Outlook and SharePoint in the utilities example. | Check invoice IDs for duplicates and separate documents that need review. |
| Operations and support | Run summaries, exception queues and controlled configuration updates. | Keep access to approved business systems and retain processing evidence. |
Industry experience & results
Results reported for oil and gas invoice processing and utilities document management.
Oil and gas invoice processing
~70%Reported reduction in human effort across invoice handling.
Explore client workOil and gas invoice processing
~75%Reported reduction in invoice processing time.
Explore client workUtilities invoice backup
80–90%Reported reduction in manual document-handling effort.
Explore client workUtilities invoice backup
1,200+Vendor accounts covered in the document-management example.
Explore client workClient work
Energy and utilities examples focus on the work around invoices and documents. A related invoice case shows another document-review approach.
Oil and gas
An A360 workflow extracts invoice fields, applies vendor rules and updates DocVue and OGSQL/OGSYS, with AP review for uncertain data.
Explore client workUtilities
A Power Automate workflow collects Outlook attachments, extracts invoice references and sorts documents into SharePoint folders.
Explore client workRelated experience: vendor finance
A separate vendor invoice case uses UiPath Document Understanding and Action Center to check uncertain fields before creating standard output.
Explore client workContact
Show us where invoice, document or reporting work is getting stuck. We will map the systems involved and agree a focused workflow to improve.
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