Bumble Bee Foods was struggling with excessive costs in their P2P pipeline. Paper-based invoices, manual routing procedures and multiple disconnected processing centers inflated their cost to process an invoice to 65% higher than the industry average. In fact, up to 80% of their corporate clerk's day was spent tracking down and managing invoice inquiries, and unnecessary payment delays were causing the loss of substantial vendor discounts and benefits.
Bumble Bee knew many of these issues were caused by their inefficient procure-to-pay technology, and began to search for a solution. To get started, they completed an internal envisioning initiative to identify specific goals:
From there, Bumble Bee worked with Optima ECM Consulting to help envision a new solution that would integrate tightly with their SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform.
Using our proven Accelerate™ methodology, Optima worked with Bumble Bee's teams to redesign, refine and optimize their P2P workflows. We then took advantage of the power of the SAP platform and integrated several SAP Solution Extensions for a digital P2P transformation with remarkable results:
This project was an outstanding success for both Bumble Bee and the Optima team, and was the first step in Bumble Bee Foods' continuing digital transformation. To learn more about this project, the Optima Accelerate methodology and the specific SAP Solution Extensions utilized, download this case study now. A video overview is also available from OpenText.