The French division of Manpower, one of the largest recruitment and staffing companies in the world, has deployed an AI agent developed by Sidetrade to help optimize credit management in its financial department. The software, called Aimie, has passed the probation with flying colors – after nine months of testing, effectiveness of recovery actions grew 12 percent – and is now handling thousands of accounts. "We started Aimie off with two customer portfolios for a period of two months," said Laurent Bueno, credit director of Manpower France. "Encouraged by the results, we ramped up our use of Aimie. Within four months, Aimie was managing nearly 60 percent of single-site customers, which represents over 5,000 accounts, and nearly 10,000 follow-up actions per month."

With an annual income of €4 bn per year, Manpower France collects 1.3 million receivables from 80,000 companies. To handle this volume, and increasingly complex payment procedures, Manpower's Finance department started using Sidetrade technology in 2013. Sidetrade accelerates automation of the order-to-cash process, and models collection strategies for different segments of clientele. As a result, Manpower France improved their efficiency with a significant reduction in days sales outstanding. Despite this excellent performance, considering the complexity of the purchasing process, and exponential growth in data, Sidetrade decided to enrich their platform with Artificial Intelligence technology.

Manpower France anticipates and drives change in the world of work by breaking new ground with Aimie, Sidetrade's cutting edge Artificial Intelligence system. To optimize Credit Management, Manpower equipped their Finance team with Sidetrade's ground breaking technology, now available to all of Sidetrade's customers. With an annual income of €4 bn per year, Manpower France collects 1.3 million receivables from 80,000 companies. To handle this volume, and increasingly complex payment procedures, Manpower's Finance department started using Sidetrade technology in 2013. Sidetrade accelerates automation of the order-to-cash process, and models collection strategies for different segments of clientele.