SAP gives me exactly the report I asked for in 2017 and nothing else. Every new request is a six-week change project.
Enterprise resource planning
SAP Finance automation, built for Australian finance teams.
The seven-figure ERP you inherited from an SI and can't replace. The automation opportunity is every clickpath SAP doesn't expose an API for.
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named automations shipped on SAP Finance
10
Context
Why SAP Finance matters for mid-market finance.
SAP Finance in the Australian mid-market concentrates in manufacturing, logistics and resource-adjacent businesses, where it was implemented years ago by a systems integrator and is now being maintained by a lean finance team who inherited it. SAP is heavy, rigid, and in most cases untouchable at the architectural layer. That is exactly why the automation opportunity is real. Every day finance clerks drive SAP screens for workflows that would be a single API call on a modern platform, and every month-end is held up waiting for reports that SAP could deliver in 2017 but cannot deliver in 2024. We automate around those gaps without touching SAP.
SAP Finance is the ledger. The hours live in the gaps between SAP Finance and everything else in your stack. The job is to close those gaps, not to replace SAP Finance.
Where the hours go
The four signals that SAP Finance is costing you more than it should.
Our AP clerks spend half their day clicking through SAP screens that could be a single API call if SAP exposed one.
We paid seven figures for SAP and our close still takes ten days. Nobody's ever been able to tell me why.
The SI who built this is no longer on the phone, and our internal team can't safely change the config.
What we’ve shipped
10 automations we’ve built on SAP Finance.
Grouped by where they sit in your finance month. Each one is a named build Ordron has shipped, not a capability slide. Tap a card to see what it actually does.
Accounts Payable
3 automationsAccounts Receivable
1 automationReconciliations
2 automationsMonth-end close
3 automationsReporting
1 automationCost of inaction
What SAP Finance is costing your team in manual work.
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The SAP Finance hours, in dollars.
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5people
1FTEs in finance and accounting30
300per week
0Bills in plus AR invoices out1,500
10days
1From period end to signed-off reports20
Current platformChanges the named automations shown
All dollar figures in AUD. Assumes a blended finance rate of $55/hour and 50 working weeks per year.
Your annual cost of manual finance
$106,400
Ordron-style automation typically captures $79,500 of that per year. On a typical $10,000 project, payback lands at roughly 7 weeks.
The approach
How Ordron automates on SAP Finance.
SAP is where RPA earns its keep. Many of the workflows that plague SAP users are clickpath-heavy and API-light, so automation runs as attended or unattended RPA against the same screens a finance clerk drives. Where SAP's APIs and BAPIs exist we use them, and where they don't we drive the UI. Critically, we keep the data model documented outside SAP in a controlled Azure database, so reporting and analytics don't depend on SAP's own reporting layer. Governance and audit trail are tighter here because SAP customers are always audited.
Database-first
Every transaction, contact and tracking category writes to a structured Azure-hosted database you own. The platform stays the ledger; your data is never vendor-locked.
Automation layer
OCR, coding models, matching rules and approval workflows run next to the platform, tuned to your chart of accounts and approval thresholds.
Control Panel
Your team logs into one interface to review exceptions, see throughput, and audit every automated action, with a named owner for every exception path.
Proof
SAP Financework we’ve shipped.
- Logistics
Legacy ERP bridge
160+ hours per month saved
RPA bot that drives a legacy ERP interface, validates with SQL, and syncs clean data into Xero and reporting dashboards, without replacing the ERP.
- Manufacturing
Multi-system data flows
Monthly close cycle cut by 80%
Hybrid RPA and rule-based transforms consolidate Xero, a custom inventory tracker and Excel forecasts into a single SQL-backed reporting layer.
- Distribution
Enterprise AP with IDU
>95% coding accuracy, 65% faster invoice processing
RPA combined with intelligent document understanding reads, PO-matches and codes supplier invoices, routing only exceptions to humans.
Go deeper
Related automation guides.
The pillar guides unpack each function across every platform, not just SAP Finance. Useful when you are benchmarking or briefing the rest of the leadership team.
- Guide
Accounts payable automation
How mid-market AP actually gets automated in Australia. Intake, coding, approvals, posting, exception paths.
- Guide
Reconciliations automation
Rule-based and ML-assisted reconciliations across the main AU business banks, cards and inter-entity accounts.
- Guide
Month-end close automation
Close checklists, automated accruals, reporting packs and a defensible five-day close for mid-market AU teams.
Next step
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