Reporting & close
AP reporting 60% faster and bookings 40% more accurate across 29 entities
The same telecom group gained real-time control of payables, from purchase request to payment.
About the client
- Industry
- Telecom
- Size
- $800M revenue
- Timeline
- [X weeks]
The challenge
Leadership had no central view of accounts payable and the invoice lifecycle across 29 global entities on Dynamics 365. That made it hard to monitor vendor liabilities, invoice ageing and payment efficiency.
What it meant for the team
CFO
Limited view of vendor liabilities and exposure across the group.
Controller
Invoice ageing and booking accuracy hard to monitor entity by entity.
AP lead
Payment efficiency invisible across the invoice lifecycle.
How we delivered it
- Step 1[X weeks]
Advise and design
- Designed a unified AP analytics framework
- Defined the invoice lifecycle stages and AP KPIs
- Step 2[X weeks]
Build and automate
- Brought D365 ERP data into a central Microsoft Fabric environment
- Automated ETL pipelines with Fabric Notebooks
- Python logic to map and track every invoice’s lifecycle
- Power BI drill-down from Group to Entity to Vendor to Invoice
- Step 3[X weeks]
Launch and embed
- [Add go-live, training and adoption details]
Total timeline: [X weeks]
Solution stack
Advisory services
- AP KPI framework
- Invoice lifecycle design
Data sources
- Dynamics 365 (29 entities)
Storage and transformation
- Microsoft Fabric
- Fabric Notebooks
Logic and workflow
- Python invoice lifecycle logic
- AP KPIs
Insights delivery
- Power BI drill-down dashboards
Impact
60%
less reporting time
40%
better transaction booking accuracy
29
entities tracked in real time
Outcomes
- PR to PO to GRN to Invoice to Payment tracked end to end
- Overdue invoices and vendor exposure flagged early
- Stronger financial control through KPI-driven dashboards
