Komatsu Australia automates invoice processing to achieve hyperautomation in finance operations
Komatsu Australia, a leading manufacturer of industrial equipment, faced significant inefficiency in its highly manual invoice processing. The finance department spent excessive time on labor-intensive, repetitive tasks, limiting value-added work and the ability to scale as supplier numbers grew. To address this, Komatsu deployed a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution leveraging Microsoft Power Automate and AI Builder. The project moved from licensing to live production in just four weeks, resulting in 300 hours saved annually for a single supplier, with broader rollout planned. Automation reduced manual intervention, accelerated settlement, and unlocked ongoing process improvement, setting up Komatsu Australia to expand efficiency across entire finance operations.
- Organization
- Komatsu Australia
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Location
- Australia
- Published
- June 2021
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Komatsu Australia
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Production
- Linked source
- microsoft.com
To address this, Komatsu deployed a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution leveraging Microsoft Power Automate and AI Builder
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- 1AI-powered Invoice Processing Automation
- 2Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for Finance
- Manual, repetitive invoice processing slowed finance operations.
- Staff spent considerable time on low-value tasks, reducing capacity for higher-value work.
- Increased volume and supplier diversity risked scaling problems without automation.
- Developed and deployed a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform using Microsoft Power Automate and AI Builder.
- Achieved fast time-to-value—license acquisition to go-live in four weeks.
- Solution automated data extraction and processing for invoice workflows.
- Planned ongoing expansion of automation to cover all supplier invoices.
- Saved 300+ hours annually for a single supplier.
- Reduced manual effort and processing time for invoices.
- Enabled staff to focus on high-value work.
- Set the stage for continuous improvement as automation expands.
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- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Technical implementation details available
- Multiple corroborating sources available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
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- Same organization re-documented as recently as 2024.
- Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — ok (0/5 broken).
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