AP AUTOMATION FOR LOGISTICS

AP automationthat keeps up with your logistics operation

Fuel, fleet, warehousing, customs duties, cross-border compliance. High-frequency, multi-currency operations across depots and borders. SoftCo brings control across these cost categories, so spend is visible and validated as it moves.

90%

Touchless processing of PO invoices

1M+

users worldwide

9.9/ 10

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Featured in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AP Automation

THE CHALLENGE

Your operation runs in real time. Your AP process doesn’t

Transport and logistics finance teams process high volumes across fuel, fleet, warehousing, customs, and cross-border freight. When AP can’t keep pace, cost visibility lags, reconciliation becomes the bottleneck, and finance is always a reporting cycle behind the operation.

High-frequency invoices, low visibility

Fuel, fleet maintenance, tolls, depot costs. High frequency, low value, high volume. When processed manually, cost visibility is assembled after the fact, not tracked in real time.

Multi-currency, multi-entityreconciliation

Cross-border freight, customs duties, multi-depot operations. Multiple currencies, entities, and tax regimes. Without automation, reconciliation is manual, slow, and produces accruals finance cannot fully trust.

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Costs that don’t fit a PO process

Fuel surcharges vary by supplier. Brokerage fees, customs duties, and tolls bypass the PO process. Each follows a different manual path to coding, approval, and payment. The costs that matter most to margin have the least standardisation.

AP AUTOMATION FOR LOGISTICS

Automate AP across depots, costs, and currencies

SoftCo gives transport and logistics finance teams control over high-volume, multi-currency AP operations. Volume is automated. Exceptions surface. Cost visibility is real time, not month-end.

Capture every invoice format

Paper, PDF, EDI. Invoice data is captured at the point of entry with no manual keying. Handles the format variety that comes with fuel, fleet, customs, and freight invoicing. No transcription errors. No re-entry.

AI Matching for PO invoices

AI Matching handles multi-line invoices to multiple POs, delivery slip matching, incomplete data, and FX conversions. Built for the frequency and volume of logistics PO invoicing across fuel, parts, and fleet suppliers.

AI Coding for non-PO spend

AI Coding learns your coding patterns and applies them to the non-PO categories that dominate logistics AP: customs duties, brokerage fees, tolls, professional services, facilities. Each coding decision is traceable and auditable.

Automated surcharge processing

Surcharge processing is automated regardless of how surcharges are presented by your suppliers. Fuel surcharges, freight adjustments, and rate variations are handled without manual reconciliation on every invoice.

WHAT YOU GAIN

What changes when AP keeps upwith your operation

The operation doesn’t slow down for reconciliation. Finance has to keep pace with high-frequency, multi-currency cost flows. These are the outcomes when AP runs in step, not behind.

YOUR PRIORITY
WHAT SOFTCO DELIVERS

Fuel and fleet cost visibility

Real-time view of fuel, fleet, and maintenance spend across depots and entities. No manual consolidation.

Cross-border compliance

Multi-entity, multi-currency processing with full audit trail across jurisdictions.

Non-PO spend control

AI Coding and routing bring consistency to customs, brokerage, tolls, and other non-PO costs.

Surcharge and rate variation

Surcharges processed automatically, regardless of format. No manual reconciliation per invoice.

Supplier relationships

Invoice status visible across the process. Queries answered faster, disputes reduced, payments within terms.

YOUR SOFTCO EXPERIENCE
AP dashboard showing invoice status mix and processing performance by site

See logistics costs in one place

Fuel, fleet, freight, customs, depot costs. All in one view, by entity, depot, and cost category. Costs visible as invoices are processed, not assembled after reconciliation. The numbers your operations team needs, without waiting for month-end.

CUSTOMER EVIDENCE

Tried, tested and trusted by 1M+ users worldwide

“Invoices are going through at 80% touchless processing. Before SoftCo, it was between 5-10% maximum.”

Martin Ray
Accounts Payable Manager, SuperDry
80%

Touchless
Processing

75%

Faster Queries

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Countries Live

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

Surcharge processing is automated regardless of how surcharges are presented by your suppliers. Fuel surcharges, freight rate adjustments, and other pricing variations are matched and reconciled automatically rather than requiring manual checking on every invoice. This is particularly relevant in transport and logistics where surcharge formats vary between carriers and can change between billing cycles. Exceptions are flagged for review. The rest flow through without manual intervention.

RESOURCES

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SOFTCOAI+ IN ACTION

Because good enough never survived an audit

Tailored automation delivers visibility, control, and savings that you can actually measure.