Using a hold to keep an invoice from initiating approvals

We are trying to automate our AP invoice entry as much as possible. About 98% of our invoices are entered via XML and go through a rule-based booking-generator (RBG), followed by some funky AI/fuzzy logic that guestimates (with about 95% accuracy…) invoice lines that the RBG can’t find rules to. The AI only enters info if it has a certain level of confidence.

Invoice lines that neither the RBG or the AI can fill out are entered into AP with no accounting information and are then manually searched out and manually entered. This tends to be 100-150 invoices per day (we are importing about 1500 per work-day).