If vendor reconciliation still lives in spreadsheets, month-end can quickly become a high-effort, high-risk exercise: multiple statement formats, manual matching across thousands of lines, limited visibility, and an audit trail that is hard to defend.
In this 30-minute webinar, we’ll share how Konica Minolta South Africa moved vendor statement processing from a manual, spreadsheet-driven approach to an automated, SAP-embedded workflow using BEST Vendor Recons.
The result: clearer oversight, stronger control, and a faster, less stressful close.
The story in numbers
Following implementation, Konica Minolta now processes:
- 702 vendor statements per month
- 27,459 statement line items
- 99.09% automatic matching, with only 0.91% requiring review
Konica Minolta also reports that reconciliations are now uploaded, matched, and validated directly in SAP, with unmatched lines clearly flagged for exception handling, supported by audit trails and approval workflows.
‘We fully trust the BEST system. Its automation, accuracy, and reliability have removed much of the manual risk from our process, giving both the AP team and management confidence in the results.’ – Nicole Shannon Venter
View the full case study document
What you’ll learn
- How to automate vendor reconciliation inside SAP
- The benefits of reducing manual AP workload to improve efficiency
- How better oversight, visibility and management reporting strengthens control
- The compliance and audit-readiness gains from stronger policy enforcement
- How improved vendor communication enhances supplier relationships
- Why a SAP-embedded approach avoids additional systems and integrations
Who should attend
This session is ideal for finance professionals, AP teams, Procure-to-Pay (P2P) teams, SAP users, shared services leaders, and anyone accountable for process efficiency, financial control, or vendor engagement.
Webinar details
Title: From Manual to 99% Automation: Konica Minolta’s Vendor Reconciliation Success Story
Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Time: 9am GST / 11am SAST
Duration: 30 minutes
Attendees will automatically receive the correct time in their time zone upon registration.
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