Age payables from open items as of any date and reconcile the total
When AP can't say how much sits past terms without pulling a manual extract from the ledger.
- Transformation
- Finance
Larger outcome
5 RecipesProcure-to-pay data engineering
From the purchase order to the payment: spend under contract, invoices that should not be paid twice, and the supplier identity and currency work both of those rest on.
Detect duplicate invoice candidates from explicit matching rules before payment
When AP paid a duplicate invoice and only found out after the payment run cleared.
- Data quality
- Finance
Build the procurement spend cube and flag off-contract spend
When procurement can't answer how much the company spends with a vendor across entities without a manual pull.
- Transformation
- Supply chain and operations
Deduplicate customers into a golden record with a source crosswalk
When three source systems each carry their own customer id and every report double-counts the same person.
- Transformation
Normalize multi-currency amounts to a reporting currency with as-of rates
When reports mix currencies because each source system stored whatever rate it had on hand.
- Transformation