AP AUTOMATION FOR MANUFACTURING

Your AP is multi-ERP, multi-category, multi-currency. Run it as one.

Manufacturing finance teams inherit complexity with every acquisition. New ERPs, new chart of accounts, new supplier networks. Add tariff fluctuations, pricing discrepancies, and a mix of PO and non-PO spend, and manual AP becomes the constraint on the operation. SoftCo is configured to work across all of it.

90%

touchless processing of PO invoices

1M+

users worldwide

9.9/ 10

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security rating

Featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AP Automation

THE CHALLENGE

Every acquisition adds an ERP. AP absorbs the complexity.

Manufacturing grows through M&A. Each acquisition brings a new ERP, a new supplier base, and new spend categories. AP has to process across all of them while tariffs shift and pricing agreements change.

Multi-ERP by acquisition

Oracle, JDE, Infor, Dynamics. Each acquisition adds another system. AP teams end up running parallel processes across ERPs that were never designed to talk to each other.

Different spend,different rules

Raw materials on POs at high volume. Indirect, MRO, and services without POs. Freight with surcharges. Each with different matching logic, different approvals, different controls.

Discrepancies are the baseline

Imported materials subject to tariff changes, FX fluctuations, and renegotiated contract prices. Pricing discrepancies are not exceptions. They are the baseline.

AP AUTOMATION FOR MANUFACTURING

One platform across every ERP, entity and spend category

SoftCo works across multi-ERP environments without requiring consolidation. Configured to your chart of accounts, your approval hierarchies, and the specific spend categories your operation generates.

AI Matching that handles price discrepancies

Per-supplier AI models learn your matching patterns across each ERP. Tariff variances, FX rounding, and contract price changes handled through confidence scoring and configurable tolerance thresholds.

AI Coding for indirect and service spend

Non-PO invoices coded and routed automatically by learned rules. Same rigour as PO spend, without the purchase order.

Multi-ERP under one platform

Oracle, SAP, JDE, Infor, Dynamics. Different chart of accounts, different PO structures. One AP function across all of them. No parallel processes per ERP.

Audit trail across every entity and ERP

SoftCo integrates with all ERPs: from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, JD Edwards, Infor, to a growing library through our iPaaS integration layer. Bi-directional. Multi-ERP configurations under a single platform.

WHAT YOU GAIN

What changes when AP runsacross every ERP

Manufacturing finance doesn’t run in one system. It runs across many.
 These are the outcomes when AP is built to operate across all of them.

YOUR PRIORITY
WHAT SOFTCO DELIVERS

Multi-ERP consolidation

One AP platform across every ERP. No parallel functions per system.

PO matching at scale

AI Matching handles tariff variances, FX discrepancies, and contract price changes automatically.

Indirect spend control

Non-PO invoices coded and routed with the same rigour as PO spend.

Supplier payment accuracy

Faster matching, fewer disputes. Payments on verified, matched data.

Audit and compliance

Full trail, capture to payment. Retrievable across any entity and ERP.

YOUR SOFTCO EXPERIENCE
AP dashboard showing spend by cost category, invoice totals, and plant performance

One screen across every ERP in your business

Invoices from every ERP, matched and coded. Pricing exceptions flagged with variance detail. Entity-level and consolidated views. No toggling between systems.

CUSTOMER EVIDENCE

Tried, tested and trusted by 1M+ users worldwide

“With SoftCo, I don’t see why we couldn’t process two, three, or four times the number of invoices without adding staff.”

Daniel Schoenknecht
Director of Accounting, Ortho Molecular Products
80%

Touchless Processing

2x

Invoice Volume

1-click

3-Way Matching

HOW WE DELIVER

Automation that fits. Delivered by design.

You may have tried automation before. Or seen it fail elsewhere. Not this time. SoftCo starts with your financial architecture, then configures automation to fit it. Not the other way around. Every step is designed to deliver a result that works in your environment.

01

Understand the fit

Your ERP landscape, approval hierarchies, exception patterns, compliance requirements. We learn all of it before we touch a single configuration. No assumptions carried over from the last customer.

02

Engineer the fit

An automation blueprint shaped by your workflows and controls. Proven patterns from 35+ years of AP implementations, applied to your specific environment. Your processes shape the solution.

03

Build the fit

Matching rules, coding logic, approval chains, integration points. All configured across your ERPs and built to your specification. Everything works together as intended, not as improvised.

04

Test the fit

Your real invoice data, your real environment. We validate workflows, rules, and outcomes before go-live. Issues resolved before they reach your team. Results proved, not promised.

05

Scale the fit

New entities, new ERPs, acquisitions. The automation adapts with you. No rebuilds. Your CS team knows your configuration and evolves it alongside your business.

FAQ

Frequently askedquestions

AI Matching uses per-supplier models that learn your pricing patterns over time. When an invoice price differs from the PO due to a tariff adjustment, FX fluctuation, or contract renegotiation, the system evaluates the discrepancy against configurable tolerance thresholds. Variances within tolerance are matched automatically. Those outside tolerance surface as exceptions with full context: what mismatched, by how much, and the relevant PO data. Your team resolves meaningful discrepancies, not rounding differences.

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Because good enough never survived an audit

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