What an independent Avanade study found about AP automation value in Dynamics 365

Most AP automation business cases stop at headcount. The finance teams we work with want more than that. They want to know what happens to cash, control, and audit readiness when invoice processing stops eating their team's week.

To answer that question, Truvio asked Avanade to take an independent look at ExFlow, the AP automation engine inside our finance suite, in the context of Dynamics 365 accounts payable. The result is a value study written for the CFO, not just the AP manager.

We're publishing the full report soon. Here's a preview of what it found.

AP automation pays back in more than saved hours

The study reads value the way a CFO reads a P&L. It looks at six things: cost efficiency, accuracy and control, financial visibility, risk and compliance, vendor and employee experience, and the ability to scale. Efficiency is the entry point. The bigger story is what automation does for cash flow, fraud prevention, and audit readiness as a finance operation grows.

The productivity numbers are real, and they're big

A multi-region benchmark at Teleperformance measured invoice processing time three ways: standard Dynamics 365 F&O, F&O with OCR, and ExFlow with OCR. Moving from standard F&O to ExFlow cut processing time by up to 76 percent.

In the Nordics, average handling time per invoice dropped to about four minutes, and one region processed 600 invoices a month in 40 hours. That gave the AP team its week back and let people move into higher-value work instead of keying invoices.

Independent benchmark: the best enterprise fit for Dynamics 365

Avanade scored the leading AP options for enterprises standardizing on D365 against weighted criteria for functional coverage, integration, scalability, user experience, and total cost. Truvio AP Automation powered by Exflow scored 4.65 out of 5, the highest enterprise fit of the solutions assessed, ahead of native D365 AP and other well-known third-party platforms. Its biggest edge is how deeply it sits inside Dynamics, with no separate platform to run and no data duplication.

Value that holds up at scale

Efficiency gains are the proven part today. The study also shows why the case gets stronger as volumes grow: real-time AP visibility through embedded Power BI, end-to-end traceability inside D365 that shortens audit prep, and country-specific e-invoicing compliance for markets like Italy, Poland, and France. This is where AP automation stops being a cost play and becomes a finance control system.

What's in the full report

The complete study covers the full CFO value framework, three real deployment stories, the competitive benchmark in detail, and where AI is taking AP next.

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