Suncor: Creating efficiencies to aid a sustainable energy transition with AI-enabled tax and financial processes
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Suncor: Creating efficiencies to aid
a sustainable energy transition with
AI-enabled tax and financial processes
Suncor Energy Inc. believes it has a key role to play in providing secure access to affordable
energy, supporting a vibrant Canadian economy, and improving environmental performance.
In doing this, it also wants to help Canada reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve its
climate ambitions.
Part of this involves ensuring business processes are as efficient as possible. To that end, the
company wanted to automate the way it computed and posted tax amounts on
intercompany transactions and improve its vendor invoice management. This would not only
support compliance, risk management, and efficiency efforts but also help realize the
company’s goal of zero carbon emissions.
Suncor: Creating efficiencies to aid
a sustainable energy transition with
AI-enabled tax and financial processes
Suncor Energy Inc. believes it has a key role to play in providing secure access to affordable
energy, supporting a vibrant Canadian economy, and improving environmental performance.
In doing this, it also wants to help Canada reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve its
climate ambitions.
Part of this involves ensuring business processes are as efficient as possible. To that end, the
company wanted to automate the way it computed and posted tax amounts on
intercompany transactions and improve its vendor invoice management. This would not only
support compliance, risk management, and efficiency efforts but also help realize the
company’s goal of zero carbon emissions.
INTERNAL – SAP Only (delete if public)
“The ICT automation rebuild must be one of the most
successful rebuilds done during the project. We went
from an 11-hour execution time that needed to be
monitored fully to under 10 minutes. Thank you to SAP’s
team for bringing a great design and improving on the
previous solution. This has turned a previously high-stress
part of month end into just another task to run.”
Derrick Polakoff, Digital Delivery Analyst—Enterprise Digital Automation,
Suncor Energy Inc.
Suncor Energy Inc.
Calgary, Canada
www.suncor.com
Industry
Oil, gas,
and energy
Employees
>14,000
Revenue
US$52 billion
Products and services
Extraction, production, and provision of
energy from sources including oil sands
and renewable fuels
Featured solutions
SAP Business AI, SAP AI Core,
SAP Build Process Automation,
SAP HANA Cloud, and SAP Fiori UX
US$20,000
Reduction in month-end closing
costs
98%
Reduction in time to
reconcile ICT postings
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Compute, reconcile, and post tax amounts on intercompany transactions (ICT) more efficiently
• Modernize the accounts payable team’s automated tool for vendor invoice management, which
was inflexible and required IT expertise
• Help integrate sustainability into business operations and enhance supply chain efficiency to
contribute to a goal of net-zero carbon emissions
Why SAP
• SAP Business AI and SAP AI Core infrastructure, integrating smoothly with SAP HANA Cloud and
the SAP Build Process Automation solution to help automate tax and financial processes
• User-friendly and consistent interface enabled by the SAP Fiori user experience (SAP Fiori UX)
After: Value-driven results
• Automated tax computation from customer line items, posting of journal entries for sales and
purchase tax across company codes, and PDF invoice-generation for audit compliance
• Aided compliance, reduced regulatory risk, and expedited period-end closing
• Increased efficiency and supported sustainability goals, saving 120 working hours per day and
enabling 24x7 invoice processing with a bot
Automating intercompany tax and vendor invoice management
with SAP Business AI
95999nUS (25/03) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
“The ICT automation rebuild must be one of the most
successful rebuilds done during the project. We went
from an 11-hour execution time that needed to be
monitored fully to under 10 minutes. Thank you to SAP’s
team for bringing a great design and improving on the
previous solution. This has turned a previously high-stress
part of month end into just another task to run.”
Derrick Polakoff, Digital Delivery Analyst—Enterprise Digital Automation,
Suncor Energy Inc.
Suncor Energy Inc.
Calgary, Canada
www.suncor.com
Industry
Oil, gas,
and energy
Employees
>14,000
Revenue
US$52 billion
Products and services
Extraction, production, and provision of
energy from sources including oil sands
and renewable fuels
Featured solutions
SAP Business AI, SAP AI Core,
SAP Build Process Automation,
SAP HANA Cloud, and SAP Fiori UX
US$20,000
Reduction in month-end closing
costs
98%
Reduction in time to
reconcile ICT postings
Before: Challenges and opportunities
• Compute, reconcile, and post tax amounts on intercompany transactions (ICT) more efficiently
• Modernize the accounts payable team’s automated tool for vendor invoice management, which
was inflexible and required IT expertise
• Help integrate sustainability into business operations and enhance supply chain efficiency to
contribute to a goal of net-zero carbon emissions
Why SAP
• SAP Business AI and SAP AI Core infrastructure, integrating smoothly with SAP HANA Cloud and
the SAP Build Process Automation solution to help automate tax and financial processes
• User-friendly and consistent interface enabled by the SAP Fiori user experience (SAP Fiori UX)
After: Value-driven results
• Automated tax computation from customer line items, posting of journal entries for sales and
purchase tax across company codes, and PDF invoice-generation for audit compliance
• Aided compliance, reduced regulatory risk, and expedited period-end closing
• Increased efficiency and supported sustainability goals, saving 120 working hours per day and
enabling 24x7 invoice processing with a bot
Automating intercompany tax and vendor invoice management
with SAP Business AI
95999nUS (25/03) © 2025 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. sap.com/terms-of-use
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“SAP Business AI has significantly improved our tax
department’s efficiency and productivity, enabling
the team to focus on more strategic tasks.”
Tatiana Cojocaru, Program Management—Project Manager,
Suncor Energy Inc.
24
Hours of manual work
saved in month-end closing
24x7
Availability of
unattended bot
To automate intercompany tax processes, Suncor Energy Inc. developed a hyper-
automation solution based on a range of SAP software. This includes the SAP Build
Process Automation solution, SAP Business AI, SAP HANA Cloud, and the SAP Fiori
user experience. Now, it takes mere minutes to compute tax from customer line
items, post journal entries for sales and purchase tax across company codes, and
generate PDF invoices for audit compliance.
The company also transformed vendor invoice automation with a new solution
combining SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Cloud Application Programming
Model, and SAP HANA Cloud. Based on SAP Business Technology Platform, this
solution significantly improves both existing business processes and invoice-
recognition and posting rates.
Suncor’s use of SAP Business AI exemplifies the power of cutting-edge technology to
transform business operations. The project has delivered intelligent solutions that
not only enhance efficiency and optimize processes but also foster sustainable
growth.
Optimizing tax and financial processes with AI-assisted
enterprise automation
“SAP Business AI has significantly improved our tax
department’s efficiency and productivity, enabling
the team to focus on more strategic tasks.”
Tatiana Cojocaru, Program Management—Project Manager,
Suncor Energy Inc.
24
Hours of manual work
saved in month-end closing
24x7
Availability of
unattended bot
To automate intercompany tax processes, Suncor Energy Inc. developed a hyper-
automation solution based on a range of SAP software. This includes the SAP Build
Process Automation solution, SAP Business AI, SAP HANA Cloud, and the SAP Fiori
user experience. Now, it takes mere minutes to compute tax from customer line
items, post journal entries for sales and purchase tax across company codes, and
generate PDF invoices for audit compliance.
The company also transformed vendor invoice automation with a new solution
combining SAP Build Process Automation, SAP Cloud Application Programming
Model, and SAP HANA Cloud. Based on SAP Business Technology Platform, this
solution significantly improves both existing business processes and invoice-
recognition and posting rates.
Suncor’s use of SAP Business AI exemplifies the power of cutting-edge technology to
transform business operations. The project has delivered intelligent solutions that
not only enhance efficiency and optimize processes but also foster sustainable
growth.
Optimizing tax and financial processes with AI-assisted
enterprise automation