Enabling Intelligent AP: Himalaya’s Digital Leap with Avaali
“Our collaboration with Avaali went far beyond automation—it was about transforming how we manage accounts payable as a strategic function. By integrating SAP with key third-party systems, they delivered a unified view that enables faster financial decisions, real-time compliance, and improved supplier engagement. What stood out was their ability to align technical execution with business outcomes, ensuring this transformation drives long-term value.”
— Abhishek Biyani, CIO, Himalaya Wellness
- High Invoice Volumes: With over 200,000 invoices processed annually across SAP and other platforms, there was a growing need for streamlined processing and faster insights.
- Manual Data Handling: Invoices received through multiple channels required manual uploads, which increased operational workload and data mismatches.
- Dependency on Confirmation Workflows: Invoice approvals were often dependent on goods receipt or service confirmations, which—when delayed—could impact the overall processing timeline.
- Limited Real-Time Visibility: Both internal stakeholders and suppliers had limited visibility into invoice status and approval progress, affecting resolution speed and collaboration.
- Approval Complexity: Paper-based or email-driven approval methods, while effective in earlier phases, began to constrain scalability and efficiency as volumes grew.
- Disconnected Workflows: The lack of unified, automated workflows across procurement, finance, and stores teams created silos, making end-to-end coordination more time-consuming.
Avaali played a pivotal role in enabling end-to-end automation of invoice processing through SAP OpenText VIM solution. The team worked closely with business users to redesign approval workflows, integrate third-party applications, and configure compliance checks.
- Touchless invoice processing at scale: Automation through email ingestion, OCR capture, and validations enabled Himalaya to process thousands of invoices daily, reducing manual effort across finance.
- Strengthened compliance and audit-readiness: Automated GST/TDS checks, PO matching, and real-time reporting ensured full traceability and audit-ready documentation at every step.
- Scalable infrastructure for 1,00,000+ invoices annually: Dynamic docket validation, emergency workflows, and third-party API integrations support a resilient AP function that scales with business growth.
Avaali Solutions (www.avaali.com) is a company that enables Enterprises to drive and deliver business results by leveraging digital technologies. Avaali has strengths in providing Enterprise InformationManagement (EIM), Enterprise Mobility and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Avaali’s advisory, consulting and implementation services has enabled enterprises to transform their business processes and engage better with their stakeholders including customers, employees, partners, vendors and shareholders.