Scaling Automotive Operations: Turning Paper into Actionable Insights

A Paperwork Bottleneck

A Drive for Efficiency and Sustainability - Before implementing intelligent automation, Schomp faced a critical processing bottleneck. Their #1 goal was to leverage technology to convert physical paper into digital data, both to streamline operations and to significantly reduce their carbon footprint.

Manual Entry Overload
‍Vehicle invoices were not posted to internal systems until the physical "paper hit the ground." This manual reliance meant that tasks taking 30 minutes of manual effort per day per person were slowing down the entire financial reconciliation process.

The Headcount Trap
‍As a rapidly growing group, Schomp faced a choice: hire a massive back-office staff to keep up with new dealership acquisitions or find a technology that could scale with them.

Technical Connectivity
‍Financial documents arrived as unstructured PDFs with no automated bridge to AutomotiveLynk. Complex manufacturer invoices and expense reports required human touch for every file, delaying vehicle availability in their systems by weeks.
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What Schomp Needed

As document volume increased, Schomp Automotive faced a clear choice: hire more staff or modernize the workflow. Their IT and Finance leaders needed a solution that could:

- Read any PDF regardless of format
- Extract and validate data with high accuracy
- Push clean data directly into their ERP
- Scale with peak automotive sales cycles without adding headcount
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The Solution - Automated Integration

Schomp required a solution that didn't just extract text, but integrated directly into their existing infrastructure. They chose super.AI for its Ease of APIs and developer-friendly platform.

The integration was remarkably seamless; the Schomp development team began coding against the super.AI API faster than the contract process could be finalized. This "top-down" initiative was easily adopted because the technology was embedded directly into their software—to the point where end-users don't even see the complex AI processing happening behind the scenes.

Key Capabilities Delivered:

• Automated Document Capture: High-fidelity data extraction from 500,000+ pages annually with a focus on turning paper into data.
• AutomotiveLynk Connectivity: A direct API connection that bolts onto Schomp’s proprietary internal framework, ensuring it is relatable to any internal or 3rd party system of record.
• Champion-Led Adoption: Success was driven by selecting "champions" from each impacted department, ensuring the tool was tailored to the specific needs of automotive finance.
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Beyond the Balance Sheet

While the financial metrics clearly demonstrate a strong return on investment, the strategic impact extends well beyond immediate cost savings. The transformation fundamentally changed how this automotive group approaches operational scalability and delivers consistent, high-quality customer service across its dealership network.
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Following the framework of Make Money, Save Money, and Mitigate Risk, the partnership delivered results across every strategic bucket:

Bucket 1: Make Money (Growth & Revenue)

• Accelerated Inventory Turnover: By posting vehicle invoices weeks earlier, Schomp can move vehicles through their system faster, directly impacting revenue.
• Faster Vendor & Customer Payments: Automation allows the group to process paperwork and pay vendors/customers more accurately and quickly, improving satisfaction and conversion.

Bucket 2: Save Money (Operational Excellence)

• Manual Task Elimination: A task that previously required 30 minutes of manual labor per day is now 100% fully automated.
• Strategic Resource Reallocation: Staff members have been moved from "mundane paper-pushing" to high-value tasks that require a human touch, such as expense reporting and complex reconciliation.

Bucket 3: Mitigate Risk (Accuracy & Risk Mitigation)

• Enterprise Data Integrity: With less than 1% of documents requiring a support ticket, the financial data entering Schomp's systems is more reliable than ever.
• System Resiliency: The API infrastructure creates a "behind the scenes" process that removes the risk of human error in critical financial data entry.

This transformation underscores a broader shift within automotive retail: AI-driven automation is no longer a future consideration—it is a present-day competitive necessity. Dealership groups that embrace intelligent document processing gain immediate operational advantages while building the technological foundation for long-term innovation. Schomp’s journey offers a clear roadmap for others: identify high-volume manual processes, deploy purpose-built AI solutions, and reinvest saved time and resources into customer-facing improvements and strategic growth.

"We have been able to grow significantly, adding several dealerships without the need to add human capital. Our development team was coding against the platform faster than the contract process took, and today we process over half a million pages with less than a 1% ticket rate. It's about turning paper into actionable data at the speed of our business."

— Luke Nield, IT Director at Schomp Automotive Group

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