What’s inside: output checking · connections to your systems
The question this file answersWhen a supplier invoice does not match what arrived on the dock, how many of my people stop to work out why?
Fits: plants where receipts, counts and invoices are reconciled by hand.
Typical pattern, not a measured desk — the manufacturing playbook has no goods-receipt section, so we take no volume from it. Goods arrive; stores books a receipt in the ERP. Later an invoice lands with a different quantity or price, and purchasing, stores and accounts each dig out their own document.
The morning the invoice run lands, the accounts clerk opens a list of the breaks, each one already showing the PO line, the receipt line and the invoice line — nobody walks to stores to ask. Purchasing hears about a price move once, from the list, rather than three times from three people.
Typical, not a measured client result. Every figure here comes from the playbook source named below.
PO, receipt and invoice on one screen before payment — same build as our AP invoice-matching file; no published figure for the plant’s dock
Before: three people reconstruct why the invoice does not match the receipt. After: matched lines are posted as drafts and every break arrives with the three documents side by side. No percentage for the dock; the AP range stays on the parent file.
No published benchmark covers goods-receipt matching in manufacturing on its own. The Ardent Partners (2023) AP figures belong to the finance AP desk and are quoted on the parent file only; the dock gets the build, not the number. Not a payment-accuracy claim.
Your ERP stays — SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, Dynamics or the one you run; the receipt is still booked where it is booked now. This is the same three-way checking build as our AP invoice-matching file, labelled for the plant:
Short shipments. Quality holds. Price disagreements with the supplier. New packing units.
Not a payment-accuracy claim.
If receipts are booked late or against the wrong PO line, every invoice looks like a break for the first weeks — the list will tell you that about your dock before it saves anything. Supplier invoice layouts change without notice; a new one fails to read until we re-teach it, and in the meantime a person handles it.
The path: free 60-second estimate → free 20-minute review → paid audit of this one process (€1.5–3K, typically two weeks) → pilot with your people in the loop (€10–20K, weeks, not quarters). No transformation programme. Prices are public, on the services page →
Scoped in the audit — the playbook has no estimate for this exact desk.
That depends on your volumes and wage costs — this page will not invent the number. The free 60-second estimate runs that calculation from your answers, with every multiplier sourced.
Not a named Aperanda client. Process file · Manufacturing.
Short process file. Same build as its parent file; the playbook has no separate volume or benchmark for this desk.