When thinking about how to reduce paper use, investing in a digital document management system is just the beginning. You need to take steps to ensure the reduction of your paper use and allow for you to fully realize your document management system's capabilities. Your office has been relying on paper documents for years, so you can't simply do away with all of your paper at once. Here is how to reduce paper use without disrupting your business:

Without your employees, your company simply cannot move forward. Occasionally, you will need new employees to fill voids and help your company grow. For this, you should be using document management to make the hiring and onboarding steps more efficient. Here is how doing so will help your hiring process:

You want your business to grow. There are many assets that you can invest in to spur business growth. When you think of how to grow your business, better marketing and complex power moves within your industry come to mind. However, one of the most powerful tools that you should be using right now is actually relatively simple. You need an electronic document management system. Let's explore how this small move can take your business' growth to the next level.

You are constantly looking for ways to improve your small business' ability to succeed. One great way to make a significant upgrade to your small business is to go paperless.

Why should my small business go paperless?

Going paperless provides the following unique benefits for businesses of all types, including:

Whether you are moving your office to a new location, or you are simply remodeling, you will likely have to transport many important items. As you begin your move, you will notice that the most difficult assets to transport are your paper documents. This is because in addition to carefully transporting them from point A to point B, you need to make sure that they remain organized. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be as difficult as you might imagine. Follow the following three office moving tips to de-clutter your documents before you start moving.

Thanks to the cloud, you no longer have to store any documents at your physical location. This saves a great deal of time, money and space. The cloud also allows you to access your documents from anywhere with an internet connection. You may be interested in taking advantage of the benefits of cloud storage but don't know how to get started. Fortunately, the process is simple. Here is how to store documents via the cloud.
 

A paperless office will save you money and exponentially improve your organization's operational efficiency. While simply having a paperless office will allow you to reap both benefits, getting the most out of operational efficiency will require more than storing all of your documents as digital files. This will require software systems to streamline the management of your digital documents. But, with a host of software programs to choose from, which do you choose? To help you make the best choice for your company's needs, we are going to take a look at the best software solutions for a paperless office.

One of the most recent developments when it comes to improving your organization's operational efficiency is to go digital. By taking this step, you have given each member of your team the capability to handle tasks much more quickly and with fewer errors. Going digital has allowed you to mostly ignore your paper documents – which is a good thing, since paper documents are expensive and difficult to manage. However, even if you rarely – or never – use them, protecting paper documents still needs to be a priority for your organization. Here is why:

Your accounts receivable department is one of your most important assets and you should not take it for granted. Unlike cash, an accounts receivable account does not hold any guaranteed benefits for your company – at least until after it is paid in full. That being said, you can streamline the efficiency of your accounts receivable with the right process. Here is how to better manage your accounts receivable process:

Managing documents is not at the top of an entrepreneur’s favourite activity list. Maintaining original records has long been a dilemma for companies of any size. In the past, businesses that generated a high number of transactions were inundated with paper in the form of invoices, receipts, reports, correspondence and tax returns. Papers were shuffled from desks, cash registers and retail counters into banks of filing cabinets and eventually into boxes in some sort of storage area. As time passed and the business grew, the problem of document storage and retrieval became more and more acute. Space that should be used to generate income became dead space. Revenues that could be reinvested were used to pay for more and more storage.