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3 Reasons the Enterprise Automation Buzz Is Building

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Automation Trends

Automation was once viewed as the future of technology — then it became a reality. Today, automation has been scaled up and down to meet the daily challenges of organizations spanning countless industries across the globe. If you’re still in the camp that believes Enterprise Automation is just a trend, it might be time to take a second look at what Automation can do for you and your business.

Twitter. LinkedIn. Reddit. Wherever public discourse takes place, automation is trending in the @mentions. From 2016 to 2017, Adobe Digital Insights (ADI) performed a comprehensive analysis of 3 million social mentions related to “future of work,” such as automation and RPA. The researchers were able to attribute positive sentiment to the majority of these engagements. They weren’t talking about how automation would affect employment; rather, they were discussing the potential for automation to improve working conditions and increase productivity.

1. Automation Saves Valuable Time

It’s no secret that automation technology works faster than humans. It doesn’t need to “think” or “consider” letters or numbers before taking an action; instead, actions are taken automatically whether or not a human worker is available to push a process through to the next step. Automation doesn’t take sick days or vacations and it’s not limited to 40-hour workweeks or the costly constraints of overtime. Therefore, it’s unsurprising that in the analysis mentioned above, 30 percent of respondents mentioned saving time when discussing automation.

It might be a well-worn cliche, but there’s no hiding from the fact that time is money. With Enterprise Automation, you can assign menial, time-consuming tasks to automation so your team can focus on the things automation isn’t as well-equipped to handle. The days of manual data entry are over, and everyone is talking about it.

2. Automated Business Processes Yield Valuable Analytical Data

Still not convinced that automation is more than a passing trend? Consider this: 25 percent of automation-related conversations taking place on social media reference big data analysis as a primary driver for implementing automation. When business processes are automated, they gain the ability to automatically track productivity from start to finish, allowing C-level executives to glean valuable insights and make informed decisions on a rolling basis. No more waiting for the end of the quarter to figure out what went wrong and why. With real-time analytics guiding you, operational inefficiencies can be nipped in the bud to prevent your team from wasting time and resources that could be better allocated to other tasks or departments.

3. Humans and Automation Can Work in Harmony

Automation is often viewed as the harbinger of death for human jobs, but this is a gross overexaggeration that can be quickly disproven by examining how (and why) automation is being used by businesses all over the world. The average number of daily mentions of automation has doubled year-over-year. During that same period, the number of daily mentions of robots and jobs has increased by a staggering 70 percent year-over-year. However, to truly understand why this bodes well for humans and automation alike, we need to break into the meat and potatoes of these mentions to truly understand their sentiment. Here are a few examples:

 

 

Needless to say, the automation buzz is building — and for good reason. The automation “trend” has taken root and it’s not going away anytime soon. Organizations that can work faster and more efficiently while simultaneously cutting costs and improving work-life balance for employees have already taken the necessary steps to prepare for a future where traditional working arrangements are no longer viable.

Enterprise Automation: Once a Trend, Now a Requirement

Before the automation trend really took off, it was considered a luxury for enterprise leaders who not only had the infrastructure to support it but also the growth capabilities to afford it. Today, this is no longer the case. Automation technology and software have been retooled to boost business across all marketplaces. From start-ups to SMEs and beyond, automation is a difference-maker the likes of which we’ve never seen before, especially for large enterprises that can benefit from an integrated solution across multiple departments and locations. The automation trend is here to stay, and IntelliChief’s experts are standing by to ensure that your automation project capably addresses your challenges and helps you become more resilient (and profitable).

To learn more about Enterprise Automation or to see our products in action, contact IntelliChief today.

Accounts Payable Automation 4-Way Matching

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Accounts Payable Automation 4-Way Matching

Accounts Payable Automation is a powerful tool for any organization that finds itself processing a large volume of transactional information on a regular basis. Unfortunately, many organizations fail to identify the nuances (and potential nuances) of their AP process. Matching a PO to an invoice and receipt is a relatively simple process to automate, but what happens when additional approvals are necessary to fully vet a transaction? What happens when a 2-way matching process requires an additional step? And what happens when a fourth match is required? Here’s everything you need to know about Accounts Payable Automation 4-Way Matching:

Large Enterprises Require Accounts Payable Automation 4-Way Matching

Although Accounts Payable Automation 4-way matching is rarely top of mind when an organization decides to seek out an Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution for AP Automation, it can be achieved with the right vendor. For example, if your organization is headquartered in the United States but has operations spanning North America and Europe, the major drivers for such a project might include:

  • Scaling back paper-based processes (and eliminating paper)
  • Reducing time and cost associated with manual ERP data keying and workflow management
  • Streamlining back-office processes across disparate locations and systems
  • Eliminating late and duplicate payments
  • Obtaining more early pay discounts
  • Improving the work environment

All of these benefits can be realized with the right ECM solution for your organization; however, this list doesn’t need to be finite. Clearly, reducing the amount of time required to complete the matching process is key to faster and more efficient workflows, but if your solution only automates simple 2-way matching or more advanced 3-way matches, certain transactions will inevitably fall through the cracks. Few solutions can capably perform 4-way matches, but those that can tend to support higher rates of “straight-through processing” and greatly reduce the amount of manual, error-prone work performed by employees.

How Does Accounts Payable 4-Way Matching Work?

The precursor to a reliable Accounts Payable Automation 4-way matching process is the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system(s) at the heart of your organization and the ECM solution that will help you unlock new features using your existing software infrastructure. Most organizations will review vendors and perform due diligence until they find a solution that can be expanded throughout their organization without bringing additional vendors into the fold and integrates with their current ERP(s).

Before a definitive selection can be made; however, your organization must develop a robust understanding of your existing business processes and the underlying workflows that drive these processes forward. This is best accomplished by partnering with a vendor that is willing to perform a comprehensive discovery and whiteboarding session to identify just how complex these processes truly are (and whether or not Accounts Payable Automation 4-way matching capabilities are necessary to help you reach your goals).

An example of a 4-way match is an invoice that must be matched to a purchased order (PO) and then to a receiver, before finally being matched against a quality inspection sheet. The additional flexibility of being able to emulate such a nuanced workflow with automation is extremely liberating for businesses that want to be able to fully automate their enterprise. And it shows as organizations that implement seemingly become leaner and more profitable overnight.

Additional Automation Benefits

Accounts Payable Automation 4-way matching is an advanced capability that helps companies close the gap on straight-through processing rates exceeding 90 percent or greater. By automating the entire AP process from document capture to workflow and approval, your organization can cultivate an environment where only the rare exception will require manual handling.

In this touchless environment where no ERP keying or other human interaction is needed,  ERP lookups for vouchering, validating, and supplementing key data between systems are executed using a rules-based business process automation workflow mapped to your specific practices, enabling lightning-fast reviews and approvals. This is achieved using cross-reference table algorithms that normalize data among systems and constantly match variables to maintain data integrity. AP processing staff can be reduced or reallocated, giving them the additional bandwidth needed to concentrate on strategic operations. Lastly, the ancillary benefit of AP Automation in related vendor fees, paper, and onsite and offsite storage costs — which can oftentimes be eliminated altogether savings tens of thousands or more.

To learn more about how Accounts Payable Automation 4-way matching can help your business gain a competitive advantage, contact us today.

Business Process Automation Benefits

4 Benefits of Business Process Automation in the Workplace

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Business Process Automation Benefits

Automating inefficient, time-consuming products has become essential in every industry in the United States. Whether you are a project manager working in construction or an Accounts Payable professional for an enterprise-class manufacturer, automation can help you forge a path forward during one of the most challenging economic periods in American history.

 

According to a recent Harris Poll survey, Accelerating Automation: How Businesses are Adapting to a Post-COVID World, “92 percent of business leaders agree that to survive and flourish, companies must enable digital channels and process automation in the workplace.”

As a business leader, your reasons for automating your company will differ drastically from those of others. Some automate to cut costs, while others do so to help control the workload being placed on employees. If eliminating costly transactional errors is your objective, automation can help with that too.

Business process automation benefits can be a significant game-changer for your company. In this article, we’ll briefly discuss four benefits of business process automation. Keep in mind that these benefits are NOT mutually exclusive.

1. Meet and Surpass Your Growth Objectives

At the end of the day, every business has the same goal: growth.

Whether you want to grow to generate revenue, to spread your message, or to give yourself the tools to make a positive impact on the world, the most direct path to your goal is through growing your business – and business process automation gives you an array of tools to do just that.

The initial cost barrier of automation can be a tough pill to swallow; however, just beyond this initial investment lies an endless bounty of opportunity for businesses that decide to take the risk. Ironically, the risk of not investing in automation for the workplace is significantly higher – especially if your competitors are already getting their own automation projects underway.

Once your competitors automate their companies, you must begin calculating the opportunity cost of your decision to not automate, including:

  • Stifled profits
  • Overburdened employees
  • Erroneous processes
  • The rising cost of paper and storage
  • Lost market share
  • A growing gap in the capabilities of you versus your competitors

After you have justified your investment with the help of an expert, you will be able to forecast your ROI and create a plan to help you scale your solution into the future. With your company firing on all cylinders and productivity elevated by as much as 90%, you can rest assured that your company will continue to meet its growth objectives year after year.

2. Reduced Time to Fill Keeps Productivity at Peak Levels

Whenever an employee decides to quit or retire, they will leave a void in your business process that must be filled with another employee who possesses the same or similar skills and knowledge to complete the job at a high level.

If that role is unable to be filled, the responsibilities of that employee will fall squarely on the shoulders of your other workers. An overly long time to fill can cripple productivity and create bottlenecks in your workflow.

Automation can help you eliminate issues caused by an excessive time to fill. Better yet, it can bridge the gap when an employee leaves for good. If there’s no other candidate out there who can capably do the job or a lack of qualified talent, automation can nullify the impact.

3. Cultivate an Employee-Friendly Working Environment and Improve Retention

As a business leader, you are not only at war with your competitors when it comes to dollars and cents, you are also battling over the top talent in your industry. If your employees report being overworked or overburdened, regularly being tasked with taking on multiple duties or a large volume of manual tasks, they could be heading for greener pastures sooner than later.

The competition in the recruitment market is one of the least talked about struggles facing all employers, but that does not diminish its impact. The best way to avoid this obstacle is to retain employees, and the only way to retain employees at a high rate is to ensure that your working environment supports your employees and is willing to make necessary changes to improve retention.

Here’s the thing: Shallow improvements to the workplace, like installing pong tables and vending machines, won’t actually help you retain workers. Bells and whistles are nice, but they won’t help your workers relax if they are constantly working on repetitive or menial tasks.

Business process automation benefits your working environment because it takes on redundant tasks, freeing up your workers to focus on more meaningful responsibilities or those that require some form of creative problem-solving. Workers that arrive each day with a sense of autonomy over their work-life balance feel valued, which means they are more willing to stay with a company in the long run, as opposed to employees who constantly feel anxious or depleted.

4. Unheralded Efficiency Drives Your Business Past the Competition

Companies that focus on maintaining efficiency across all areas of their business generally have a leg up on the competition. They outfit themselves with superior technology that allows them to establish streamlined companies that waste very few resources. Take Tesla for example, which is now considered the most valuable car company on the planet despite being founded in 2003. Not only is their product more efficient, but their entire business model is also structured on the principle of efficiency.

Efficient processes ensure that information flows in and out of your business without any interruptions, resulting in faster transactions and increased operational bandwidth. For the enterprise, this is achieved by forming a seamless integration with the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at the core of the business (i.e., Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Infor LX, JD Edwards World, etc.). Once integrated, business process automation software can help you reclaim the 520 hours per year lost to repetitive tasks per employee.

Your company can cash in these hours on new projects, additional training, and other important organizational benefits. Repetitive tasks that could be automated cost the US economy over $10,000 per employee each year. How many employees does your company keep on its payroll? How many “invisible” dollars are you really losing? And how do these dollars lost compare to the dollars gained after investing in automation?  These are important questions that should be answered with the help of an expert who has experienced implementing automation in the workplace.

Automation in the workplace can help you establish stronger and more resilient business processes to help you become an industry disrupter? Contact IntelliChief today to learn more about the benefits of business process automation.

Capturing Your AP and Orders Email

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With the volumes of email you receive, transactional data and attachments are easy to overlook – and it’s difficult to quantify what’s missed. This is particularly concerning regarding capturing your AP and Orders email.

A simplified automation solution: IntelliChief Email Import provides the capability to capture documents directly from your company’s email system. It targets specified addresses you designate (e.g. ap@, customerservice@), redirecting from your email server to the IntelliChief Email Import feature of IntelliChief ECM. The body and attachments are automatically captured into IntelliChief as body-attachment batches or individual documents.

The useful functionality: all the captured documentation is image-enabled, facilitating the contained information to be indexed for keyless, straight through processing within IntelliChief. ECM integration with your ERP and line of business systems assures the data is verified and validated for accuracy, archived with each transaction’s document collection, and readily available for workflow.

IntelliChief Email Import epitomizes automation – it runs behind the scenes. Conveniently out of the way, yet reliably functional. It complements IntelliChief’s complete enterprise Accounts Payable and Order processing automation for your organization.

If this is capability you and your colleagues could use, contact IntelliChief to see how it will function in your specific processing environment.

Purchase to Pay: Results of Automating AP Processing

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If you’ve attended a live sports or entertainment event, you’ve seen this company in action. They’re the stars for sound, staging, storage and transportation; the ones behind ‘the show must go on’.

The Challenge

The company was looking to streamline their Purchase to Pay process. Overall, the goal was to reduce the time, effort and cost of paying invoices. Within their Accounting workflow, all invoices were paper. Those arriving in an electronic format (frequently email attachments) were printed. This manual, paper intensive process made it difficult to find, route and organize each invoice associated with every order.

They used an internal mail service to send their paper invoices to Accounting, and the approval process was an extremely time intensive task. Their methods were not easy or efficient – those invoices without purchase orders were routed from Accounting to an approving manager via internal mail, reviewed/approved by the manager, then routed back to Accounting again by internal mail. Purchase order invoices were manually matched to the receiver’s invoice.

The Consensus

The company chose to implement IntelliChief as the enterprise content management (ECM) solution to automate their specific processes, creating an efficient Purchase to Pay environment. Since adding IntelliChief, the time for invoice approval and routing to the Accounting department for payment has been significantly reduced (quantified in the IntelliChief Automation Results section).

Now, all invoices are captured, electronically formatted, entered into IntelliChief and indexed by the Administrative Services department, replacing much of their ERP keying with touch-free, straight through processing. The company assigns each vendor a default approving manager. The invoices that are non-PO are automatically routed to the approving manager via IntelliChief’s automated workflow, eliminating (literal) steps from their previous manual routing process. PO invoices are placed in a To Be Matched inbox, with IntelliChief moving the PO invoices to be paid when a receiver matches the PO invoice. “A significant benefit of adding IntelliChief is the ability to handle existing workloads and avoid the need to hire or shift additional resources to AP, as our organization grows,” stated the company’s IT Director.

IntelliChief ECM’s integration with their ERP provided visibility, verification and validation (enhanced by IntelliChief’s item cross reference normalization) to assure payment accuracy, receipt of their contractual timely payment discounts, and avoidance of late payment penalties.

Paperless Prosperity

With IntelliChief ECM, all incoming invoices received by fax, email or mail are available electronically with-in the system, accessible via desktop or mobile device. With the company’s goal to be completely paperless, after the successful implementation in Accounts Payable, they see IntelliChief as the cornerstone of this endeavor. Next, their paperless expansion will encompass their Order-to-Cash process to decrease DSO’s and improve cash flow.

Complete Connection

A crucial component of their selection of IntelliChief is its ability to connect with any ERP or line of business system throughout the company. This will provide the company flexibility to utilize ECM in any department of their business they deem advantageous, to move them increasingly closer to paperless process management’s cost savings multiplier.

Seamless system integration was a significant differentiator of IntelliChief from other document management solutions. With IntelliChief, the company’s staff can capture, create, store, index, search, retrieve and distribute documents directly from any business system without leaving their desks, eliminating tedious, costly digging through filing cabinets or sourcing off-site storage for needed documentation.

Their IntelliChief AP Automation Results

Eliminate Expenses – They save $32 processing an invoice.

Reduce Processing Time – They save 23 days processing each invoice.

Capture Emailed Documentation Easily – Automated capture of emailed documents (both body contents and attachments) eliminates printing and keying.

Archive Simply – IntelliChief’s Print Capture function enables their users to electronically archive and prepare any document for workflow, simply by selecting the File-Print to IntelliChief feature.

Convenient 3-Way Matching – For Accounts Payables’ 3-way matching processing, the company’s staff utilizes a two-monitor desktop configuration, enabling them to simultaneously see both the original purchase order created in their ERP, with the invoice and receiver captured by IntelliChief.

Automate Invoice Routing Workflow – When processing invoices that required approval, the old method relied on internal mailing of the original invoice to the appropriate manager for approval, a process that took days. Using IntelliChief’s workflow to automate routing, the process is completed in minutes.

Improving Cash Flow with Accounts Payable

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Founded in 1934 to make steel castings for the U.S. Military, this company has grown to be a top specialty manufacturer in the US. Their continued growth is based upon acquiring new customers while maintaining and growing loyal accounts through investments in innovative production abilities and proactive customer service.

A Paper-Based Problem

Improving cash flow with Accounts Payable.

One area of inefficiency this company realized was its plethora of paper processes. According to their Database Administrator, “We had a real need to go paperless to enhance accuracy while saving time and money.” The DBA and the company’s Controller agreed that an automated, paperless flow would benefit Accounts Payable (AP) and their interdepartmental colleagues, making sure that important documents never sat on anyone’s desk too long. It would also help the company with issues involving multiple document copies, outdated information circulation and duplicate payments.

The DBA indicated they had been using Quadrant Software’s Formtastic™ and FastFax™ solutions when they began their quest to go paperless, and they were excited to discover that IntelliChief enterprise content management (ECM) was a partner product of both Formtastic and FastFax, and could help them reach their document management and business process workflow goals. At first glance, the solution seemed like a perfect fit, but the company decided to evaluate other ECM options for comparison. In the end however, IntelliChief’s process workflow-matching configuration, and seamless integration with the company’s enterprise content management (ERP) system, made it the right choice for them.

“All the paper was costing us a lot of time and money,” the DBA relayed. It also resulted in too many mistakes. “We ended up double paying vendors two or three times a month, well, that we knew of. We had a team of four in AP who were struggling to keep-up with the increasing paper volume. They were doing the best they possibly could, though the backlog of ERP information keying and constant ‘walking-workflow’ put them in an unwinnable cash flow situation. IntelliChief was our way to fix this through automation.”

Piles (and Piles) of Paper

Before the IntelliChief implementation, all purchase orders were created manually. An initial requisition was drafted, and once approved three copies of the document were made. One went to AP, another to Purchasing and the final to the requestor. The information was then manually keyed into their ERP to create an official purchase order for the requisition. This PO would then be printed in triplicate and distributed. At this point in the process, the DBA explained that, “at least six pieces of paper had been generated to secure a single item.”

Once the item requested arrived, its receipt would be entered into their ERP. The receiver who signed for the goods would, according to the DBA, “hopefully be able to send the packing slip over to AP that day, preventing processing hold-up, or worse – documentation loss.” If the packing slip made it there, AP would then attempt to make a 4-way match, trying to marry up the original requisition, the PO, the packing slip and the inbound invoice from the vendor. Often however, all four documents did not make their way to AP, causing AP to have to request new copies from various parties within the process. If any originals did resurface, some items were entered twice, and invoices paid twice.

The time was right for the company to implement IntelliChief and activate additional tandem features within their ERP that would enable them to reliably go paperless.

Paperless Purchasing

The first thing the company did was to activate the Requisition Approval function within their ERP. This ability automates the requisition process, meaning no hard copies are produced. Once the requisition is approved in their ERP, a PO is generated within the system and faxed or emailed directly to the vendor through FastFax. No copies of the PO are required – every document within the purchasing process is archived within the IntelliChief system.

The company also activated the Receiving function within their ERP that’s integrated with IntelliChief, which allows the company to scan a packing slip at Receiving. AP no longer must wait for the physical slip; once it’s scanned it becomes available electronically via IntelliChief to all authorized users. When an invoice arrives (whether via fax, mail or email), it’s captured by IntelliChief and made available via their ERP screen, often with touchless, straight-through processing, eliminating data keying. Users can retrieve all related AP documents quickly on the screen together, making the 4-way matching process a snap. Also, there are no more checks to print, copy and file, as IntelliChief retains copies of each payment’s documentation, through automated capture and archival.

If a snag ever arises within the purchasing process (IE. the quoted price on a PO doesn’t match the price on an invoice), IntelliChief makes it easy to resolve the issue, through item cross-reference normalization. There’s no more walking paper across the building; instead AP simply forwards the item within IntelliChief’s process-specific workflow to the proper parties to resolve the issue. The best part, said the DBA, is that “all transaction documentation history is organized and stored in IntelliChief, making it very easy to archive and retrieve any aspect of any transaction, with all the steps and notations added in workflow retained.”

Automated Cash Flow Improvement

The DBA feels that IntelliChief has fundamentally changed the way the company conducts business. Most of their AP filing cabinets are gone. Everything and everyone are comfortably more efficient, helping to add dollars to the company’s bottom line. According to the DBA, “IntelliChief has really streamlined the invoice matching process and approvals, and payment scheduling, greatly enhancing our cash flow. We’re also benefiting from vendor discounts for the first time in our company’s history and finding them to be significant in our case. The multi-pay errors are virtually non-existent now.”

The Future

With IntelliChief, the company now operates a paperless Order-to-Cash operation. While they haven’t had the system in place long enough to fully calculate its payoff in this area, they’re already benefiting from on-screen visibility to order projects that they, and all their colleagues involved in fulfilling each order, haven’t previously had. The days of running between departments to retrieve, review, add notations and secure approvals are over. The Shipping Department is also better equipped to work with Customer Service, with both having real-time access to each order’s status. Any customer-requested order documents may be sent to them directly from IntelliChief by email or fax.

When asked if they would recommend going paperless with IntelliChief to other companies, the DBA responded, “Absolutely! Get rid of the paper – it will immediately save you time, money and frustration!” They also said that for most people letting go of paper was easier than had been expected, and that the few who struggled were convinced after just a few days, as they realized how easy it was to retrieve a document from IntelliChief. The DBA stated, “the IntelliChief search function is as intuitive as an Internet search engine. Whether the documents are linked to their ERP or they’re stand-alone items created within IntelliChief, the system makes it very easy to search for and access them right away. We’ve moved in the right direction – away from filing cabinets.”

ROI Calculator

AP Automation Actuals Calculator

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ROI Calculator

Using your actuals to discern if AP automation makes fiscal sense for your company allows you to know for sure if it’s worth the pursuit. Will it also add value to your ERP system investment?

Now there’s a convenient way to find out. IntelliChief ECM’s AP Automation Actuals Calculator factors all cost savings related to moving from manual to automated processing in your environment, utilizing verification and validation from your ERP’s tables.

The calculator includes all aspects of AP processing, comparing your cost projections from years 1-5 of automation implementation. You’re able to see how AP Automation efficiencies affect your organization and provide guidance for process automation optimization when mapping your workflow, in-tandem with ECM system integration with your ERP.

What Information Can the ROI Calculator Reveal?

IntelliChief’s ROI Calculator is an effective tool for getting a better understanding of whether or not automation is right for your organization. In most cases, automation can make a world of difference in areas such as Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable by increasing productivity, streamlining processes, and eliminating costly errors. Here’s what our ROI calculator can tell you about your business:

AP Statistics and Measurements

In-depth analysis of invoice sources and formats, quantities, data capture methods, resource/storage/labor cost (internal and outsourced), late payment fees paid and early pay discounts available.

Hard Dollar Costs

Determining manual processing actuals.

Staff Time

Often the hidden expenses associated with AP processing – time and cost of employee/contract staff in processing tasks, encompassing invoice printing, ERP/business system keying, approval routing, exception handling, data conversions, resolving duplicate payments, researching internal and vendor inquiries, audit preparation, tracking and reporting on all activities.

Measuring Your ROI Calculator Results

Purchasing and Receiving related costs also are factored in, including these departments’ labor costs for transactional documentation workflow routes.

Once these figures are entered, the Calculator progresses to both hard dollar savings/gains and efficiency savings for each year 1-5, per line item allocation. It provides a comparison of your current costs to what they would be in an automated environment.

With these calculations completed, you’ll know what impact AP Automation will have for you. If the outlook’s favorable, the data accumulated will be foundational for your business case.

For your free Calculator, contact IntelliChief.

The YMCA Central Maryland Selects IntelliChief Accounts Payable Automation

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IntelliChief, a provider of automated document management and workflow enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announces The YMCA Central Maryland selects IntelliChief Accounts Payable Automation. Upon vetting three industry-leading ECM systems, The Y chose IntelliChief for non-PO invoice processing, as they migrated invoices and data from their previous ECM. Their qualifications included a system integrated with their Stock, Garber and Associates (SGA) enterprise resource planning system (ERP), with retrieval and invoice data import for verifications and validations. They needed document capture capabilities to eliminate printing and scanning, decreasing ERP keying by increasing touchless straight-through processing, with workflow mapped to their specific processes to expedite reviews and approvals. The system needed to be scalable to expand into other departmental areas.

VP of Finance and Controller Jeremy Trimble commented, “we went through a very thorough analysis of options and feel great about the selection of IntelliChief. They met and exceeded all our criteria. We are thrilled about this new partnership.”

IntelliChief ECM provides a smooth, robotic process automation (RPA) transition from costly manual document management and workflow functions. Its industry-awarded AI-powered document capture enables users imaging capability of any paper or electronic format, indexing contents and validating with data in their ERP and line of business applications. It optimizes interdepartmental process workflow, with real-time analytic visibility through desktop and mobile access.

IntelliChief’s enterprise automated document management usage spans Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Sales Management, Customer Service, Human Resources-HCM, IT, Legal and Logistics/Distribution.

For IntelliChief ECM information, contact IntelliChief.

The YMCA Central Maryland is among the largest Y Associations in the U.S, providing service to over 350,000 people throughout the central Maryland region. They are a charitable, cause-driven organization working for community well-being, operating across over 100 sites with a focus on Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility.

How Risky Is Risk?: A Case for Enterprise Content Management

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According to the International Federation of Accountants, the ever-changing business landscape of new technology and fluctuating markets, positions accounting and finance professionals to have the most significant impact on enterprise risk management (ERM) within their organizations. With this opportunity to support value creation and preservation over time, they’re primed to contribute to both fiscal and operational aspects of ERM initiatives. The most prevalent identified need: enabling business system integration and interconnectivity to break down siloes across the organization for sharing information timely and cost-effectively. Workflow automation is a stable step towards ongoing reduction of capital and earnings risk.

How risky is risk – a case for Enterprise Content Management (ECM) begins with fixing the ERM problem of interdepartmental information silos, inadvertently created by lack of automated information management to enable staff to transcend departmentally-enclosed environments. Transactions – purchases and orders – is where this need is particularly evident.

Both Accounts Payable and Order process automation have reached functional, cost-effective scale through ECM. This technology enables all transaction-related information to be captured from native paper or electronic files, formatted to uniform image files for archival and automated workflow – interdepartmentally. With ECM integrated into a company’s ERP and line of business systems, this squarely addresses the silos, enabling staff to share timely, conveniently and cost-effectively from any location. Data is verified and validated between systems, with touchless, straight-through processing.

Reducing costs associated with processing and filing vendor invoices reflects AP automation’s impact, streamlining company workflow processes. It increases visibility into the invoice approval and exception handling through visualized analytics, ultimately mitigating late payment fee risk, while increasing early payment discount achievement through payment scheduling optimization.

By automating sales order processing, an organization benefits with faster order processing, while improving accuracy and lowering costs. Process control and visibility of orders routed for review, approval or exception handling is expedited. These aspects lead to a decrease in Days Sales Outstanding. Another multidepartment ECM benefit – improving Sales and Customer Service experiences for clientele, and for staff managing each account, bolstering customer retention and up-sell/cross-sell opportunities.

The International Federation of Accountants recent survey of US businesses concluded that 70 percent of them didn’t have a complete ERM process, though had a growing sense of urgency to discover and counter risk. A cost-beneficial step is AP and Order process automation with ECM.

For further information, contact IntelliChief.

Baseball Hall of Famer Tony La Russa Keynote Speaker at IntelliChief User Conference

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IntelliChief, a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announces baseball Hall of Famer and 3-time World Series winner, Tony La Russa as the Keynote Speaker for Intelligence ’19: the first annual IntelliChief User Group Conference, to be held in Boston, MA, from June 9th to June 12th at the Marriott Long Wharf.

About Tony

Tony LaRussa Intelligence 19La Russa, the third winningest manager of all time; only the second Major League Baseball manager to win World Series in both leagues; and the only All Star manager to win on both sides, won three consecutive American League championships and the 1989 World Series title with the Oakland A’s, three National League championships and the 2006 and 2011 World Series titles with the St. Louis Cardinals. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Florida State University and speaks fluent Spanish.

Tony is currently the Vice President, Special Assistant to the President of Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox and with his wife, Elaine are founders of the Tony La Russa Animal Rescue Foundation, headquartered in Walnut Creek, California.  The charitable foundation is dedicated to saving abandoned and injured animals, running programs to bring animals to abused children, hospitalized patients, seniors and shut-ins.  He is well-respected and among the top leaders in all professional sports.

La Russa will speak on Business Leadership Qualities of World Series Teams. This lively, interactive discussion will span the gamut of parallels between sports and business from measuring success and setting strategies to overcoming obstacles and motivating team players.  Tony, with a lifetime of baseball experience and a keen sense of humor, will not just entertain the conference of business executives, but touch on topics and subjects relevant to baseball and business fans alike.

About Intelligence ’19

Intelligence ’19 will be a premier user conference of IntelliChief customers gathered to learn, network and grow with other IntelliChief users and executives. The conference will provide the opportunity for IntelliChief executives and leaders to share insight, knowledge and best-practices with IntelliChief customers, while providing the perfect environment for customers to collaborate with fellow executives, peers & implementers of IntelliChief software. Sessions will focus on Accounts Payable Automation, Sales Order Processing, Human Resources management and streamlining other mission-critical business process, tightly integrated with key ERP systems.

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How Content Management Can Compliment Your HRIS Platform for Going Paperless

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How Content Management Can Compliment Your HRIS Platform for Going Paperless

Content Management for HRIS Helps Optimize Your HR Processes



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PeopleSoft Accounts Payable Automation

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PeopleSoft Accounts Payable Automation

How long do your employees spend on Accounts Payable in PeopleSoft?  If you’re not using your Oracle PeopleSoft ERP as efficiently as you could be, IntelliChief can help. We offer AP automation solutions specifically for Oracle, and because we’re an Oracle Gold Partner that has performed countless installations for PeopleSoft customers, we can configure a solution that aligns perfectly with your needs and goals.

What to Expect When You Automate Accounts Payable in PeopleSoft

Our PeopleSoft Accounts Payable Automation tools help you:

  • Collect, process, and store your vendor invoices
  • Capture more vendor discounts
  • Collaborate easily between multiple departments
  • Prevent lost or misplaced documents
  • Eliminate inefficiencies from manual entry

Automated workflows let you capture purchase orders, order acknowledgments, and receiving documents from both paper-based and electronic formats. Once captured, they’re organized and stored with any related transactional documents. Meanwhile, our software compares all of the data with the transactional information you already have saved in PeopleSoft. You don’t have to manually match the information or waste time on multi-step approval routing.

The best part? PeopleSoft users that implement IntelliChief for AP typically achieve a full ROI within one year — and that’s not the only benefit.

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The Benefits of PeopleSoft Accounts Payable Automation With IntelliChief

When you automate PeopleSoft with IntelliChief, your business will become faster, leaner, and more profitable. Customers benefit from:

  • Industry-leading integration backed by Oracle Gold Partner status eliminates the need for multiple vendors or technical resources
  • Embrace a paperless office that is more sustainable, environmentally friendly, and adaptable
  • Full visibility in the Accounts Payable process, including micro- and macro-level tracking
  • Boost deployment speed
  • Improve accuracy with advanced validation software that gets smarter over time
  • Automatically capture invoices from a monitored inbox
  • 80-90 percent reduction in manual data entry
  • Lightning-fast 2-, 3-, and even 4-way matching
  • Secure digital repository creates a centralized hub for all documents
  • Analyze processing speed, cost, efficiency, and ROI achieved with IntelliChief
  • Remote access from any smartphone or tablet
  • 24/7 security and audit protection

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Discover Our PeopleSoft Accounts Payable Automation Solutions

Is your company ready to phase out old, inundated processes that prevent it from reaching its potential? Your growth objectives are clear. You’re ready to take the next step, and IntelliChief can help you get there with PeopleSoft Accounts Payable automation. Realize instant ROI as your processes become faster, more accurate, and smarter — literally paying you back over time by automatically taking advantage of early payment discounts while eliminating late payments.

Want to learn more about our PeopleSoft Accounts Payable automation solutions? Contact us today for a free consultation. Our automation experts will help you determine whether or not your business is a good fit for automation.

 

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Adopting a Paperless HR Electronic Filing System

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Adopting a Paperless HR Electronic Filing System

In HR, an electronic filing system can make it easier to stay organized. Your Human Resources Managers can have resumes, applications, benefits forms, performance reviews, and other important records stored in a digital archive – with everything right at their fingertips when they need it.

IntelliChief’s document management software integrates directly with your HRIS platform. By communicating with your Applicant Tracking, Employee Onboarding, Performance Management, and Employee Self-Service modules, it lets you automatically capture, categorize, and sync your most important HR data.

Our electronic HR filing system helps you move away from traditional storage, keeping confidential information secure while letting you access it from anywhere. And because of its real-time integration with your HRIS solution, it lets you deliver your employee and contractor information to any Human Resources application – without manual data entry.

The Real-Life Impact of an Electronic HR Filing System

Our software lets you:

Ready to modernize your approach to Human Resources? Contact us today and learn more about the benefits of electronic filing.