Case Study
Schneider Electric×Nanonets

From 80 manual verifiers to automated
PR-to-quote matching

Schneider Electric's procurement teams matched every purchase requisition against its vendor quote by hand before a PO could be issued. Nanonets now extracts each quote so Schneider's automation verifies the match and issues the PO without the manual review.

90%+ Match Rate500K Pages / 4 MonthsZero Overage
About the customerEuroNEXT: SU

Schneider Electric SE is a global leader in energy management and industrial automation, serving customers in over 100 countries with solutions ranging from electrical distribution to digital transformation for industry.

€37.8B
Annual revenue
100+
Countries
150K+
Employees worldwide
#1
In energy management

The Problem

Before a purchase order could be issued, every purchase requisition had to be checked line-by-line against its attached vendor quote — vendor, dates, payment terms, VAT, fees, totals, and each line item. Roughly 80 people did this by hand across 70 countries (6 in NAM alone), at ~40K PRs per year in each region.

  • ~80 people manually verifying PR-to-quote matches across 70 countries.
  • ~60% duplicate files.The same quote re-uploaded months apart inflated page counts.
  • A contract sized for 90K pages/year met real volumes near ~1.5M, creating overage exposure and budget friction.
PR System
Open PR
Email/PDF
Open quote
Excel
Key fields
Manual
Compare PR ↔ quote
Manual
Verify totals
SAP
Raise PO
Manual verification repeated for every PR
~80
People verifying manually
~1.5M
Projected pages / year
Stack
SAP · PR2PO
Nanonets
PDF quotes

Verifying every requisition against its vendor quote by hand was tying up teams in dozens of countries. Nanonets extracts each quote so our automation confirms the match before the PO goes out. And consolidating our page capacity let us scale into real volumes without overage. It's already freed up multiple full-time roles in Europe.

Procurement Automation Lead
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric

The solution

One extraction model. PR-to-quote verified. PO issued automatically.

Nanonets extracts every vendor quote — document type, dates, terms, VAT, fees, totals, and each line item — and hands the structured data to Schneider's automation, which matches it against the purchase requisition. Duplicates are skipped, matches trigger the PO, and only genuine mismatches route to a buyer.

Receive PR + Quote
Extract Line Items
Extract Header & Totals
Load Requisition
Match PR ↔ Quote
Approve on Slack
Generate PO
Issue & Send PO
Vendor Confirms

Impact

90%+
PR-to-quote match rate
Vs. ~95% genuine-match base
500K
Pages verified in 4 months
Dec 2025 – Mar 2026
Zero
Overage charges
90K → 330K pages consolidated
30–40%
NAM headcount reduction target
Rollout from Mexico
Metric
Before
After
Savings
PR-to-quote verification
~80 people manual
Automated extract + match
Manual step removed
Match rate
Manual spot-check
90%+
vs ~95% base
Duplicate handling
~60% reprocessed
Detected & skipped
~60% pages saved
Page capacity
90K contracted
330K consolidated
No overage
Production volume
Ramping
500K pages
in 4 months

AGENT ANATOMY

Nanonets Agent
Autonomous action-taking
After matching
Agent decides path and acts
Match
All fields match
Nanonets
Quote extracted
Vendor: Voltaria ✓
Grand total: €42,180 ✓
VAT 20% ✓
Nanonets
Line items parsed
Contactor LC1D ✓
MCB iC60 ✓
Enclosure XL³ ✓
SAP · PR2PO
PR loaded
PRPR-2026-018842
Value€42,180
Nanonets
Fields matched
TotalsMatch ✓
TermsMatch ✓
Nanonets
Match cleared
Match rate98% ✓
Threshold≥ 90%
SAP · PR2PO
PO issued & sent
PO4500219877
Sent toVendor ✓
Mismatch
Fields differ
Nanonets
Mismatch flagged
⚠ Grand total: €43,900 vs PR €42,180
Nanonets
Field isolated
Line 3 · MCB iC60
Qty 40 quoted vs 32 on PR
Nanonets
listening…
SAP · PR2PO
Routed to buyer
Assigned: NAM buyer
Review requested — qty mismatch
SAP · PR2PO
PO on approval
Buyer confirms corrected qty
PO issued & sent ✓
Duplicate
Already processed
Nanonets
Duplicate detected
Same file — processed Jan 2026
Nanonets
Processing skipped
Page not re-charged
~60% of volume avoided this way
Nanonets
Logged & closed
No PO — already handled

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