With annual sales approaching $3 billion, GAF is North America’s largest manufacturer of commercial and residential roofing. The first move to an external invoice processing system, delivered less than stellar results: only an 8% touchless processing rate, dependency on buyers for invoice processing, and too much rogue spend.
With Ariba, GAF dramatically improved its straight through invoice processing rate while also driving compliance through extended use of catalogs and automated PO-invoice matching.
Source: http://eeiplatform.com/files/GAF-Invoice-Processing-Ariba.pdf