How AIT and Koppers transform finance operations with AI in manufacturing and industrial distribution

Norberto Nunez AP Leader, Applied Industrial Technologies

Anthony Livecchi Internal Audit Director, Koppers

Does your finance back office still run on manual review? Manufacturers have put AI to work in quality control, maintenance, logistics, and production planning. Yet, despite the investment across operations, many of their finance teams still review spend by hand. AP teams key invoices into the ERP manually, auditors check a sample of expense reports after reimbursement, and reviewers must apply different policies at each plant. 

Norberto Nunez put AI to work in AP at Applied Industrial Technologies. Anthony Livecchi did the same in internal audit at Koppers. Now, AI reviews every transaction before payment, and their teams handle only the exceptions that need human judgment.

Join this live session to learn how they did it.

• What AP and audit looked like across their sites and service centers, and how each made the case for AI
• Where they chose to keep people in the review process and how they decided which transactions need a person's judgment
• How they consistently apply policy to invoices and expense reports that suppliers and employees submit from every site and legal entity, in every currency
• What advice they would give to a peer who is starting the same AI evaluation