Testimonial: Automating Accounts Payable for Groupe Bellemare with Viridem

13 companies, thousands of invoices, one software

Groupe Bellemare is 13 companies with very different realities, from transport to an in-house garage. That many businesses means that many suppliers to pay and that many administrative processes to run. Multiplying accounts payable by 13 multiplies the risk of errors, delays and overload. The Group chose Viridem to take back control.

The trigger: 15,000 invoices a year, for a single division

“For just one of our divisions, TBL, our in-house garage, that's about 15,000 invoices a year. We had a real need to automate the accounts payable process.”Marc Lévesque, Director of Technology and Information Systems, Groupe Bellemare

In a labour-shortage context, every hour spent keying, filing and chasing is an hour too many. The goal was clear: automate without losing any control.

Why Viridem: a partner, not a vendor

“At Bellemare, we look for partners, not just vendors. We wanted a real connection with the team and a solution fit for our reality. Viridem met our expectations.”Marc Lévesque

Viridem was configured to connect to Sage X3, the Group's management system, with automated transfer of accounting data. No double entry, no fragile bridge: invoices arrive, are read, validated and posted into SAGE.

The result: 50 to 60% time saved

“Documents arrive by email in Viridem and are transmitted automatically into SAGE. If the information is complete, everything is processed without intervention. Otherwise we adjust and it flows again automatically. That saves us 50 to 60% of our time!”Étienne Garon, Programmer Analyst, Groupe Bellemare

Half the administrative time, recovered. Teams no longer handle every item by hand, they handle exceptions, not routine.

Beyond accounts payable: health & safety too

Convinced by the results, the Group extended Viridem to other departments, including occupational health and safety:

“Forms are tailored to each type of work, conditional by stage, and easily transferred from one employee to another. No more paper! Everything is handled electronically.”Marc Lévesque

And automation keeps gaining ground, company by company: “For one of our businesses, operators enter quantities in a console, and Viridem processes the transactions for SAGE automatically. That's between 700 and 1,000 weigh tickets a month, fully automated,” adds Étienne Garon.

Key takeaways

• 13 companies orchestrated on a single software, connected to Sage X3.
• 50 to 60% of time saved on accounts payable processing.
• 700 to 1,000 weigh tickets per month processed without human intervention.
• Adoption that goes beyond accounting: OHS, field forms, archiving.

Groupe Bellemare didn't just buy software, it found a partner able to adapt to 13 business realities. That's exactly what Viridem does, from Canada, since 2013.