If two people already disagree on when a receipt is "done," a script will pick a side and make it official. That is how you get faster conflict.
I watch the process until I can draw it without question marks. Then I automate the boring middle, not the political edges.
Shrink before you speed up
Remove extra fields, extra status codes, extra approvals that exist because a spreadsheet once needed them. Then put Python on what remains.
Leave a human at the seams
Vendor says the file is correct and the floor says it is not — that is not a parse error. That is a conversation. The script should stop and queue, not "be helpful."
