Manufacturing Magazine December 2014 | Page 15

Rather than having to spend valuable office time processing piles of invoices , managers are free to grow the business , improve supplier relationships and compete with the best in the marketplace up the valuable time of decision makers . Managers can instead focus on the small number of exceptions the software identifies . These can be approved from anywhere : on a smartphone , PC or tablet .

Rather than having to spend valuable office time processing piles of invoices , managers are free to grow the business , improve supplier relationships and compete with the best in the marketplace .
Research conducted by ReadSoft found 77 percent of manufacturers believed growth was being held back by manual sales order processing , with 61 percent of companies still receiving paper sales orders that need to be processed manually . By automating the core AP process , organisations are positioned for growth through technology . It is then a clear and simple step towards sales order automation and a reduction of 42 percent in the delay of sales order fulfilment time .
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