Manual supplier reconciliation breaks down fast at scale.

When you’re managing thousands of suppliers, even a well-structured process becomes difficult to sustain, especially when it relies on spreadsheets, macros, and manual intervention. ANS recently worked with a finance team managing thousands of suppliers each month, where reconciliation had become too time-consuming to complete effectively, leaving the team constantly on the back foot.

This leads to:

• Reconciliations becoming reactive rather than proactive
• Teams being stretched too thin to keep up with volume
• Processes that are slow, fragile, and prone to failure
• Time lost waiting for Excel-based processes to run (or fail)
• Increased risk of missing invoices, delayed payments, and supplier disputes

Explore how to:

• Why reconciliation becomes operationally unsustainable at scale
• The limitations of spreadsheet-driven reconciliation processes
• How leading organisations are moving from manual effort to exception-led control
• Practical ways to reduce workload without adding headcount
• How data and AI can enable proactive reconciliation and better supplier outcomes

What you’ll leave with

• A clear view of where reconciliation processes fail as you scale
• A practical model for automating matching while retaining control and auditability
• Insight into how to move from reactive firefighting to proactive finance operations
• A realistic first step to prove value quickly and build momentum.

Meet the Speaker...

Jack Ruiz

Senior Enterprise Account Executive at ANS

Jack Ruiz is a Senior Enterprise Account Executive at ANS, helping organisations accelerate cloud, data and AI transformation. With a strong focus on retail, hospitality and manufacturing sectors, Jack works closely with businesses to identify opportunities for innovation, operational efficiency and long-term growth through technology.