Freudenberg Home and Cleaning Solutions is a leading global provider of cleaning systems and household and laundry care products and is the company behind the Vileda brand. With innovative solutions, the company helps millions of households and professional users make cleaning processes more efficient and easier. Drawing on over 70 years of experience, a strong customer focus, and continuous innovation, Vileda develops durable products and sustainable solutions that are used in more than 35 countries worldwide.
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Vileda
Significantly reduce
manual effort
The challenge
As digitalization continued to advance, Freudenberg Home and Cleaning (Vileda) faced the challenge of further optimizing its existing invoice processing workflows. The goal was to significantly increase the efficiency of automated processing, reduce manual effort, and create a future-proof, scalable system landscape. In particular, areas such as account assignment, workflow control, tax code assignment, and the detection of anomalies and duplicates offered potential for optimization that had previously only been partially automated.
Our services
- Conducting a proof of concept to analyze existing invoice processing workflows
- Identifying opportunities for optimization throughout the entire process
- Defining and prioritizing relevant AI use cases (including account assignment, workflow participant identification, tax code mapping, anomaly detection, and duplicate checking)
- Implementation of the AI solution avvaneo Expedite
- Customization of the solution to meet Vileda’s specific requirements
- Integration into the existing system landscape
- Close collaboration with business departments throughout all project phases
- Structured project methodology for fast and efficient implementation
- Preparation and support for the international rollout based on the positive experience from rollouts in the first countries
Result: An AI-powered solution for sustainable process optimization
With the implementation of avvaneo Expedite, Vileda significantly increased transparency and standardization in its invoice-processing workflow while sustainably reducing manual effort. The centralized database improves cross-departmental collaboration and enables informed, data-driven decisions. This noticeably reduces the workload on accounting staff, allowing them to focus more on value-added activities.
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