Recently, SY Holdings Group Limited? ("SY Holdings"; Stock Code: 6069.HK), a leading supply chain fintech platform, has been granted an invention patent by the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) for the "Intelligent Invoice Review System Based on Multi-Agent Collaboration", independently developed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Sheng Ye Information Technology Services (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. ("SY Technology").
Invoice review is a critical link between a company's finance function and its operational workflows, and its efficiency directly affects both operational performance and risk control. Traditional manual review follows a sequential model: authenticity verification, duplicate detection, compliance checks and amount verification must be carried out one after another, with each step waiting for the previous one to finish—much like a single-lane assembly line. Reviewing even a single invoice is time-consuming, while batches of invoices quickly pile up. Simply adding headcount delivers little marginal benefit and can hardly keep pace with business growth.
The newly granted patent breaks this bottleneck with a multi-agent collaborative architecture. At its core, the four tasks—authenticity verification, duplicate detection, compliance checks and amount verification—are assigned to four independent "AI reviewers" that run in parallel. The system then centrally coordinates their outputs and cross-validates the results, completing the shift from serial manual processing to parallel intelligent review. In other words, checks that once had to be completed one by one are now performed simultaneously; the system handles the main workflow automatically, while human staff focus increasingly on exception handling.
In live operation, the system delivers gains in both efficiency and risk control. Review time per invoice has fallen from about 12 seconds manually to under 1.7 seconds. With bulk Excel import, 200 invoices are processed in just two minutes—a 6–20-fold improvement over manual processing that cuts review cycles by more than 80%. A single server handles around 100,000 invoices a day, more than 40 times the roughly 2,400 invoices one person can process daily. Overall review accuracy exceeds 95%, with detection rates of over 99% for fake invoices and 100% for duplicate invoices. The review error rate has dropped from 15% under the manual model to below 5%, and the incidence of business risk is contained below 0.1%.
For SY Holdings, invoice review is not merely a finance tool but a key link in its supply chain services. The capability is already deployed on the SY Cloud Platform, where it works alongside instant invoice authenticity verification, duplicate-registration checks against the Zhongdeng? registry (China's unified registry for security interests over movable properties and rights), and AI-powered contract review and approval, supporting verification of the authenticity and commercial reasonableness of underlying transactions. Faster review enables quicker risk response, shorter service turnaround and a better customer experience, helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along the supply chain access more efficient working-capital solutions.
Looking ahead, SY Holdings will continue to deepen the integration of technology and business, promote the practical application of innovative technologies across the industry, and deliver higher-quality services and experiences to its customers.
