Daikin partnered with C2FO to launch a dynamic early pay programme, allowing vendors to request early payment at self-selected discount rates. By June 2025, Daikin had enabled over ₹3,500 crore in early payments with a 12.9% yield and 36-day DPE.

Additionally, Daikin introduced the Trade Go Digital Payment Programme with Standard Chartered Bank to streamline payments for its importing suppliers, who account for nearly 40% of the company’s total supply chain by value. Traditionally, cross-border payments involved significant delays due to manual documentation, compliance checks and banking coordination often taking a minimum of four days to process. With the new digitised system, Daikin has reduced this turnaround time to under 24 hours, ensuring that critical overseas vendors receive timely payments, improving trust and operational continuity across international supply routes. The results were enabled by cross-functional collaboration across HCMS, procurement, shared services and treasury, supported by structured training and change management. Daikin’s approach reflects strong leadership vision, speed, scalability and a deep focus on ecosystem impact.

Daikin re-engineered its invoicing processes. Initially, RPA reduced the turnaround time from 20 days to ten. In the last 12 months, a new vendor portal has reduced it further to under three days. Impressively, 73% of invoices are now booked via this portal, compared to 27% through RPA.