Assessment of the actual cost of invoicing

Arthur D. Little (management consulting firm) conducted an in-depth study on the invoicing costs of 16 French companies that were representative of the market. This study, which was conducted very precisely at the actual places of processing, gives a good approximation of “standard” costs of processing incoming and outgoing invoices.
The notion of “standard cost” corresponds to the situation of a well-organised company using traditional invoice processing technologies.

Estimate of unit processing costs for received invoices

The study shows that the average cost of processing an invoice coming into a well-organised company is around €14 (€13.80), broken down according to the following diagram.

Savings expected according to the solution put in place

Potential savings in paper dematerialization with passed for payment workflow in accordance with market indicators.

Example : Theoretical saving of €5 per invoice or for 30,000 invoices around €150K per year.