SwedenManufacturing2023 – ongoingVolvo Group
Azure AI document processing
Volvo Group saves 10,000 manual hours by automating document processing
Problem
Bills and other documents arrive as emails, scanned PDFs and paper, often with stamps, images or multi-page tables.
Approach
A six-week proof of concept turned into a four-month production build with Azure AI services. Output goes out as XML or CSV depending on the receiving division. A Power BI report tracks processing time and success rate.
Results
Takeaway
The tool has since rolled out to several markets, with more planned.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Manufacturing
- Business function
- Production and qualityFinance, risk and legal
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer visionPredictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Vendor solution
- Evidence
- Vendor's case study
Sources
Source summaries
Volvo Group built an Azure tool that reads varied documents and outputs structured files. Microsoft reported 10,000 manual hours saved since launch, or over 850 hours per month. A six-week proof of concept was followed by a four-month production build.
Full details are in the original sources.
