Case Study
Australia’s Leading Media Company Streamlines AP with OpenText Vendor Invoice Management
Client
Partner
Avaali Solutions
Industry
Media & Entertainment
Service
OpenText Vendor Invoice management
Introduction
What's This Company About?
One of Australia’s largest diversified media companies.
Founded in 1841, and headquartered in Sydney.
With over A$2.34 Billion net revenue, stands as one of the leaders in the media industry.
About Avaali
The Need
The Challenge
- Poor visibility and lack of audit trail – limited insights and reporting.
- Complex user control and access management framework and policy requirements for invoice approvals.
- Non standard 3 way matching and 2 way matching.
- Processing of Condition vendors.
Process Overview
Solution
- Implementation of OpenText Vendor Invoice management to streamline the Accounts Payable process.
- Built complex workflows which adhered to a complex framework of user access management and approval framework.
Benefits
- More reliable and standardized invoice processing.
- Higher accuracy and reliability in providing insights into invoice data.
- Easy change management-native SAP look and feel.
- Satisfies the core business need to enable complex role-based approval of invoices.
Results
Conclusion
Partnering With Avaali
The Impact that Matter
Our solutions delivered measurable business impact, enabling enterprises to achieve faster adoption, cost efficiencies, and operational excellence.
Standardized, reliable invoice processing with improved visibility and insights
Native SAP experience enabling seamless role-based approvals and easier change management
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Mandar Thakur Desai
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After implementing OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP Solutions, we now have enhanced control over our Accounts Payable process through consolidated invoice processing. Our resources can focus on more value-added tasks with manual steps eliminated. Avaali’s deep expertise in OpenText VIM helped us go live in a quicker time frame.
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Head of Technology
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Anup Vikal
Chief Financial Officer
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With Avaali’s implementation, our invoice processing time reduced by 75–85%, now 1–2 days instead of 7. We achieved 55% touchless processing within four months. VIM reports provide strong visibility into liabilities and bottlenecks, enabling better control, faster decisions, and standardized invoice processing rules across locations—delivered through Avaali’s expertise.
Alkane Patel
Head of IT
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After implementing OpenText Vendor Invoice Management for SAP, we now have much better control over our Accounts Payable process. Control and visibility over open GI-IR has increased, invoice processing is more efficient, and challenges around invoice retention and retrieval are resolved. Avaali’s strong expertise ensured smooth implementation and valuable support as we prepare to centralize AP across the Group.
Nikunj Thaker
DGM – IT
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We went live in just 3 1/2 months and the solution has resolved our issues by providing us with a platform for automated and standardized invoice processing. Tata Sky's accounts payable users are very happy using this solution and we have been able to gain a 70-percent increase in efficiency in our Shared Services Center.
Vikas Kapoor
VP Of Finance
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Avaali's expertise in OpenText VIM support and upgrade helped us manage our VIM project efficiently, stay compliant, reduce downtime and keep running things smoothly.
Rahul Yadav
Head - Digital & Technology Business Solutions - Asia Pacific & Middle
East
East
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Digitization was a key requirement for KPTL, given our diversified operations across 150+ sites in India and 30+ countries. With OpenText VIM, we now have much better control over Accounts Payable. This solution has strengthened process maturity and prepared us to centralize AP across the Kalpataru Group.
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Imran Mohamed Ali
Head of IT Infrastructure and Support
Tata AutoComp Systems
Ltd.
Ltd.
With OpenText Archiving and Document Access for SAP, Tata AutoComp saw major performance improvements and significant reduction in storage management costs. We expect to migrate about 350 GB of documents this year. The project has enabled seamless document retrieval and reduced downtimes across the organization.
Mr. Ranjeet Kadam
Vice President – IT & ERP
Nayara Energy
At Nayara Energy, we moved from a fragmented, laborious Accounts Payable process to SAP Vendor Invoice Management. The platform improved efficiencies, enhanced productivity, simplified operations, and eliminated bottlenecks. Multi-level approvals provide more control and significantly improve cycle time, enabling timely book closure with appropriate governance and records management.
Parthasarathy S
Chief Accounting and Transformation Officer
Bidco Africa
With this implementation, our invoice processing time reduced by 75–85%, now 1–2 days instead of 7. We also achieved 55% touchless processing within four months of go-live. VIM reports give strong visibility into liabilities and bottlenecks, enabling better control, faster decisions, and standardized invoice processing across locations.
Alkane Patel
Head of IT
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