Finance Automation · MRI
Automate AP Without Replacing MRI
Reduce manual invoice intake, coding and approval work around MRI Software — and keep the workflow portable if your accounting platform ever changes.
What we automate around MRI
- Capture and extract invoices before they reach MRI
- Apply property, entity and GL coding from your own rules
- Validate against existing records and flag duplicates
- Route approvals through your current hierarchy
- Deliver a coded, validated payable into MRI
- Keep the workflow independent of the accounting platform underneath
Where MRI AP still becomes manual
- Invoice intake from email and portals handled by a person
- Property and entity coding applied by hand
- Approval chasing across sites and portfolios
- Exception handling that differs by invoice type
- Duplicate checking across entities
- Re-keying when workflows differ per portfolio
What stays under your control
Automation removes the keying, not the authority. These stay with your team by design.
- Invoice approval remains a human decision
- Vendor banking changes verified independently
- Payment release separated from approval
- Anything outside your tolerance rules routed to a person
What it means for each person in the decision
AP Manager
Fewer manual touches per invoice, and exceptions that arrive with context.
Controller
One consistent coding and approval standard across portfolios.
CFO
Process more payables without proportionally more AP staff.
IT
MRI stays the system of record; the automation layer sits around it.
How we connect, honestly
What MRI exposes depends on your modules and hosting arrangement. We verify the available path during the Assessment instead of assuming one.
- Supported MRI interface where your configuration provides one
- Controlled import where it does not
- Workflow logic kept outside the ERP, so a platform change does not restart the project
- If MRI already does it natively, we will say so
What the numbers say
Evidence
$10.89
Bottom-quartile cost per invoice, manual (APQC)
$1.77
Top-quartile cost per invoice, automated (APQC)
Industry benchmarks are drawn from published automation research and our own delivery baselines. We will share the specific source and assumptions behind any figure here on request — and during the Assessment we replace them with measurements from your own process.
What we commit to
Portable
Workflow survives an accounting platform change
Audit
Trail on every automated action
Calculate your ROI
Enter your volumes to size the opportunity. No form, no email — the numbers are yours.
Your current process
Assumptions
- Fully loaded hourly cost of AP staff handling invoices
- Error rework estimated at 1.5x the original handling time per failed invoice
- Automatable share of 62–75% based on AP automation industry benchmarks
- Payback modelled against a typical single-process implementation investment
Your estimated opportunity
Modelled estimate- Current estimated annual cost
- $190,800≈ 2.6 FTE of manual effort
- Potential automatable effort
- 62–75%
- Indicative payback
- 2 months
- Potential annual opportunity
- $118,296 – $143,100
Directional planning estimate based on your inputs — not a quote or a substitute for finance sign-off.
Assess this workflow on your MRI environment
One process mapped, measured and costed, with a fixed implementation proposal at the end.