Farrans Construction is a leading civil engineering and building contractor with over 80 years' experience delivering projects across the UK and Ireland. The business employs more than 650 people from offices in London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Monaghan and Belfast, and is a sister company of Tarmac within CRH plc, the world's largest building materials business.
Farrans works across seven core sectors, from commercial and public sector projects to transportation, water, marine and energy, with over 45 sites live across the UK and Ireland and contract values ranging from £5m to £300m.
As Farrans grew, so did the volume of invoices landing on the finance team's desk. Manually keying each one in was slow, pulled staff away from higher-value work, and gave the business no realistic way to scale invoice processing alongside its project pipeline.
Manually keying a growing volume of invoices was consuming staff time that should have gone toward higher-value finance work, with no way to scale the process as the business grew.
Farrans received 60,000 invoices in a single year, and processing them by hand created a persistent drag on payment turnaround and supplier query resolution.
