Invoice automation can be a complicated process given that you'll have to learn how to employ it as well as understand its terminology. Some companies fail to understand the different invoice automation solutions that exist or are satisfied with their current invoice processes as long as they function. Others also don't have the IT staff capable of conducting it. However, the benefits are extraordinary and worth looking into. Your organization can automate each step of the invoicing procedure include invoice scanning, data capture, processing, and payment, helping it grow without the need to add staff. Here's how your company can conquer invoice automation and make it a useful tool.
How to Conquer the Biggest Challenges to Invoice Automation
Topics: office automation, accounts payable, invoice automation
Enterprise content management (ECM) is a vital tool to employ when your organization is seeking the most efficient document management setup possible. With so many systems available, choosing the best one that can manage your increasing volume of documentation can be a challenge. Finding ECM software that is affordable while also meeting everyday demands is critical, and these features should take precedence when you explore your options.
Topics: ECM, ECM Sotware
As an employer, you want staff to have a clear understanding of what you expect of them in this position. After all, time is money. The more time your employees spend trying to figure out what they should be doing, the more money-making opportunities are being put on hold. Businesses have lost billions due to employees failing to understand their tasks and, as a result, short-term career transitions have increased. An effective onboarding process involves providing employees with the necessary tools to prepare them to start, and it also reduces the time spent filling out paperwork.
Topics: office automation, human resources
Why Is It Important?
Though more companies are embracing content management practices at varying levels, some still fail to understand the terminology. Some companies also struggle to take a comprehensive strategic approach with these practices. It speaks to their lack of understanding of ECM – a centralized platform used to consolidate digital content storage – and how it functions.
Topics: ECM, content services
How to Build a Business Case for a Document Management Automation
You may have been asking for an automated document management solution for a really long time, or perhaps, you’re just starting the conversation. Either way, if you’re having these conversations with executives you’ll need to be prepared to present a solid business case for the transition. Any major change has the perception of complexity, high costs and disruption for the sake of disruption. While the benefits may be clear to you and your team, often you’ll face some opposition from leadership if you don’t communicate the need properly.
Topics: automated workflows, paperless, document automation, Document Management and ECM
There are tons of best practices for implementing and using document management systems. You’ve read about all the benefits and likely seen dozens of tip sheets about how best to utilize an electronic system vs. a paper-based one. If at times the amount of information available seems overwhelming, stick to a few essentials.
Topics: paperless, Document Management and ECM
The 5 Bottom Line Benefits of an Effective Office Filing System
Companies have always relied on data. For decades, data like customer and vendor info, employee records, AP/AR invoices, etc. lived on paper, in files, and stored in filing cabinets. Electronic filing systems have started to replace paper document management processes, but the need for a well-planned filing system remains at the fore of every process strategy.
Topics: paperless, Document Management and ECM
3 Ways Your Document Management System Can Let You Down
Once you’ve implemented an electronic document management system, you might find that it isn’t exactly working the way you’d expected it to. You’re waiting to reap the benefits promised to you. Perhaps, you’re still finding it a chore to use effectively. Not every DMS will work the way you expect, and even if it has the capacity to, it needs to be implemented properly.
Topics: paperless, Document Management and ECM
Even with the global push to “go paperless” within the last decade or so, the scary truth is, offices still waste a lot of paper - every day, every month, every year. It adds up! Paper waste shouldn’t just bother people who are environmentally conscious, but also businesses minding their bottom lines. Paper waste is expensive, and the truths that appear in your balance sheets might scare you enough to consider paperless document management options.
Topics: paperless, Document Management and ECM
Five Outdated Business Processes We Keep Doing “Just Because”
Do you ever find yourself answering the question of “why are we doing it this way?” with “Because we’ve always done it this way.”? You’re certainly not alone. Think about restrictive dress codes, or archaic policies, or even the vendors you work with. Outdated business processes tend to increase their shelf life in organizations “just because.” What about the answer, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it”? However, if you analyze the impact of an outdated business process on your bottom line, your ability to compete and service your customers, and the time it’s steals from your employees...it IS broken, and it needs to be supplanted by a better way.
Topics: paperless, business processes, business strategy, business efficiency, Document Management and ECM