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Supplier invoices, at the scale of K+N

75,000 invoices per month across 180 markets. Eight times faster end-to-end than the prior pipeline. v2 added redline workflow March 2026.

01 · Eighty percent of invoices, no human hands

Kuehne+Nagel runs logistics in more than 100 countries with tens of thousands of employees. Every month, 75,000 invoices hit the finance queue flagged as unprocessable. Someone had to touch each one. On top of that, staff hand-allocated more than 400,000 open items a year to the right bank statements and customer payments — hours a day, gone.

RPA didn't fix it. The rules took months to configure and broke the moment business conditions shifted. People spent their days sorting documents instead of doing finance.

Beyond Work now handles 80% of invoices with no human input. It reads the data gaps, catches the mismatches, and gets better as it goes. Parked-invoice review runs 10x faster, so the team spends its time on the handful of cases that are genuinely hard.

02 · Cash allocation: four hours down to thirty minutes

Cash allocation tells the same story. Work that took four hours takes 30 minutes — 8x faster. Match quality went up by a third at the same time.

The whole thing was built and deployed in weeks on Workblocks, not the months RPA wanted. K+N could try an approach, watch it work, and ship it.

AW-CS-2026-04-001 · Case Study · v2
Supplier invoices, at the scale of K+N · Beyond Work