Automating Accounts Payable at SES AI
SES AI Corporation (NYSE: SES) is a lithium-metal battery technology company operating across R&D, energy storage, and materials business units, with sites spanning the US and Asia. Its accounts payable process ran on Oracle NetSuite but relied almost entirely on manual work invoices were reviewed, keyed, and matched by hand, one at a time
Challenge
Invoices arrived by email and were keyed and matched against purchase orders by hand. Invoices without a PO needed a slower, separate retroactive process, duplicate checks relied on staff comparing invoices manually, and goods-receipt confirmation happened at payment time rather than posting leaving approved invoices unpaid past their due dates.
Our Solution
Sumvec deployed Aura, its agentic AP automation layer, directly on top of SES AI's NetSuite instance automating invoice intake and extraction, PO matching and billing-entity validation, and AI-assisted duplicate detection, with a tracked exception queue replacing the old email-based follow-up.
Platform And Product
Aura Sumvec's intelligent invoice- processing platform, configured and integrated with SES AI's NetSuite environment to run OCR/AI extraction, purchase-order and vendor matching, and automated posting end to end
75% Impact Testing Coverage
of SES AI's invoice categories (9 of 12) are fully dev- and UAT-tested for automated processing covering roughly 94% of monthly invoice volume.