Does this support ZATCA e-invoicing requirements?

Our automations work alongside your ZATCA-compliant invoicing setup, automating capture, matching, and posting around it.

Which ERPs do you integrate with?

SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and Odoo are the most common in our Saudi projects, with custom integrations where needed.

What if our vendors send paper or PDF invoices?

That is the normal case. OCR and document AI capture them; vendors do not need to change how they invoice you.

Does this work with our ERP?

Yes. Procure-to-pay automation is built around the ERP rather than replacing it, integrating with platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and Odoo so the ERP stays the financial record of truth.

How does the three-way match prevent overpayment?

It is the control that compares the purchase order, the goods receipt, and the supplier invoice before payment is approved. Automating it prevents overpayment and duplicate billing without a person checking every line.

Can it handle Arabic invoices?

Yes. Arabic and bilingual invoices are common in the Kingdom, so they are validated explicitly during implementation rather than assumed to work from English testing.

Will automation pay suppliers automatically?

Automation prepares and validates payment runs, but releasing funds keeps human authorization. That preserves separation of duties and keeps the control where auditors expect it.

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Invoice Automation

Procure-to-Pay automation connects purchasing from request to vendor payment: requisitions, approvals, purchase orders, goods receipt, invoice capture, and matching. Business Codes builds P2P and invoice automation for enterprises in Riyadh and across Saudi Arabia, integrated with your ERP.

In short

Procure-to-pay automation joins the purchasing cycle end to end — request, purchase order, goods receipt, invoice capture, three-way match, and payment — so spend is visible in real time and only exceptions need a person.

The procure-to-pay lifecycle from request to supplier payment — only exceptions surface.

A good fit when

Purchase requests, approvals, and invoices are handled across email and spreadsheets.
Invoice matching is manual and disputes are found late.
Spend visibility only becomes clear at month end.
Invoice volume is high enough that touchless processing would change workload materially.

Not the right fit when

Purchasing volume is low and every purchase is genuinely bespoke.
Supplier master data is unreliable — clean it before automating matching.
Procurement policy is undefined, so there are no approval rules to enforce.
The ERP already handles the full cycle and only needs configuring rather than surrounding.

Not sure this is the right fit for your process?

Tell us what the process looks like and we will say plainly whether automation is worth it — including when it is not.

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We reply within one business day.

What we automate with Procure-to-Pay Automation

Purchase requests with budget checks and policy-based approvals
Invoice capture with OCR and AI validation, including Arabic invoices
Three-way matching against purchase orders and goods receipts
Vendor onboarding, document expiry alerts, and payment scheduling

What you gain

Up to 80% touchless invoices

Routine invoices post to your ERP without a person touching them; only exceptions surface.

Faster cycles, better terms

Shorter approval cycles mean fewer late payments and stronger vendor relationships.

Spend visibility

Finance sees committed and actual spend in real time instead of at month end.

How it compares

Stage	Manual	Automated
Purchase request	Email and spreadsheets	Validated digital form
Approval	Chased by hand	Routed by policy
Invoice capture	Re-keyed	Captured and extracted
Matching	Manual PO checks	Automated three-way match
Spend visibility	Month-end only	Real time

The measure that matters is touchless rate — the share of invoices completing with no human intervention.

How we implement it

Map the current cycle
Follow a purchase from request to payment and record where time and rework occur.
Clean supplier and item data
Fix the master data that automated matching will depend on before building anything.
Digitize requests and approvals
Move the front of the cycle into validated forms with policy-based routing.
Automate invoice capture
Capture invoices and extract fields, including Arabic and bilingual documents.
Enable three-way match
Match invoice, purchase order, and receipt automatically, with tolerances agreed with finance.
Route exceptions and post
Send only genuine exceptions to people, post the rest, and report on touchless rate.

Limitations to plan for

Automated matching depends on accurate purchase orders and goods receipts; weak upstream data limits it.
Supplier behaviour varies, and some will keep sending unstructured invoices.
Exceptions remain manual by design — the goal is fewer, clearer exceptions rather than none.
Tax and e-invoicing rules change, so the compliance layer needs maintenance.

Common mistakes

Automating invoice capture while leaving requests and approvals manual, which moves the bottleneck.
Ignoring supplier master data quality, which is the most common cause of match failure.
Setting matching tolerances so tight that nearly everything becomes an exception.
Measuring invoices processed rather than touchless rate and cycle time.

Security and governance

Separation of duties is preserved between requesting, approving, receipting, and payment.
The three-way match runs as a control, not merely as a convenience.
Every approval and posting carries an identity and timestamp for audit.
Payment steps keep human authorization; automation prepares them rather than releasing funds unattended.

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