Acume is a powerful automation platform for high-volume finance and sales teams. Best known for its Accounts Payable automation, Acume’s smart processing also supports other critical workflows including Supplier Statement Reconciliation and inbound Customer Order processing.

Acume’s smart processing complements Abel by automating manual tasks and streamlining processes in your Accounts Payable and Sales Order workflows, improving efficiency and accuracy.

Acume uses advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR), to capture and extract data from incoming PDF documents, applies your business rules for validation and matching, and integrates directly with Abel to enter and process documents automatically.

Key benefits of Acume:

• Automated Supplier Invoice Capture and Matching
  Extract data from incoming supplier invoices using OCR, create supplier invoices in Abel and automatically match them to Abel Purchase Orders and Supplier Deliveries (two or three way matching).
• Flexible Supplier Invoice Coding and Approval
  Code supplier invoices in Acume at the header level or split by value or percentage, then route through Acume’s multi-step approval workflows.
• eInvoicing Enabled
  Acume is eInvoicing-compliant for New Zealand and Australia, enabling real-time, secure electronic invoice exchange between Acume and connected suppliers.
• Supplier Statement Reconciliation
  Acume receives Supplier Statements and automatically checks that all the supplier Invoices are present for processing in Acume, helping finance teams close gaps and avoid disputes.
• Inbound Purchase Order Automation
  Acume can process incoming Purchase Orders from your customers. Using OCR, Acume extracts the Supplier Item ID and quantity from the order lines and automatically builds a corresponding Customer Sales Order in Abel, reducing manual order entry and speeding up fulfillment.
• Improved Efficiency and Accuracy
  Reduce manual workloads, avoid late or duplicate payments, and react promptly to supplier and customer activity.
• Full Audit Trail and Document Repository
  Acume provides visibility and document traceability, with a searchable audit log and centralized access to all processed documents.

Businesses running Abel can adopt Acume to enhance their Supplier Invoice processing, Customer Order processing or both workflows.

Supplier Invoice Workflow

• Supplier Purchase Orders are created in Abel in the usual way.
• Acume retrieves supplier master data, open Supplier Purchase Orders and Supplier Deliveries from Abel.
• Supplier Invoices are received directly into Acume or they are forwarded by your team.
• Acume uses OCR to extract supplier invoice data and then matches it to Abel’s records.
• Acume provides for Supplier Invoice G/L coding at the header or line level and can also handle split coding. Approval workflows apply.
• Most supplier invoices are matched to other Supplier documents automatically, exceptions are flagged for review.
• Approved supplier invoices are interfaced to Abel in a posted state, ready for payment and closure.
• Acume receives Supplier Statements and automatically checks that all the Supplier Invoices are present for processing in Acume.

Customer Order Workflow

• Customer’s Purchase Orders are emailed as PDFs to Acume.
• Acume uses OCR to extract key line-level data, including inventory item IDs and quantities.
• Acume automatically builds Customer Orders in Abel, ready for your team to process and fulfill.

Smarter Together

With Acume and Abel, your business benefits from a smart, connected automation layer that enhances both Accounts Payable and Sales Order workflows, delivering efficiency, accuracy, and scalability to these essential functions.