With the economy recovering unmistakably and unabatedly, the way you set up your purchase-to-pay process demands more attention than ever. Cost savings, transparency, doing more with fewer people at a lower margin while intensifying customer contact, more sales calls, an increasing flow of purchase invoices and a successful conclusion of this first calendar month: it might all seem familiar to you. But so does the turmoil that can occur when the purchase-to-pay process is not optimally set up.
Unburdening with a capital O
"We receive signals from the market on a daily basis, but one word stands out head and shoulders above the rest," says Jeroen Rozeboom, sales director at ICreative, specialist in purchase to pay and e-invoicing solutions, "our (potential) customers are asking for Relief. Not infrequently companies notice in better times, that the automation within the company that until recently seemed to function fine, can no longer keep up with the increasing needs around the process. Self-contained departments, separate applications, administrative employees who are more concerned with checking than with acting proactively at the front of the process: these are all thorns in the eye of the finance manager and the business controller. After all, they are responsible for the total picture around process improvement and continuity, and getting that complete in the right way is difficult if processes and the associated automation hang together like loose sand."
Connecting is the magic word
'The core of our answer to Unburdening is connecting. That may sound somewhat poetic, but it is actually no more than our down-to-earth view of how the total purchase to pay process within companies should be set up in detail. This is achieved by setting up the entire purchase to pay process, from procurement to payment, perfectly. After all, when you create total connection then overview and space is created, allowing employees to engage in innovation and ambitious goals. And that benefits not only the company's results, but also the mutual atmosphere, employee motivation and management's overall helicopter view of the various business activities. If then your suppliers also connect to this process, by linking orders and invoices directly to your purchase to pay process, the Unburdening is a fact," Jeroen said.
Would you also like to be unburdened? Feel free to contact us!
Jeroen Rozeboom
Sales Director, ICreative
jrozeboom@icreative.nl
06 45 974 097
