CENTRALISATION OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE UTILISING DOCUMENT IMAGING & WORKFLOW TECHNOLOGY

Garry Stevens, Financial Services Manager, Aberdeen City Council
Aberdeen City Council took the decision to centralise its accounts payable function across all of its council services in March 2009. Garry Stevens, as Financial Services Manager, responsible for accounts payable, was tasked with project managing the exercise. The centralisation of the AP function tied in with the roll out of Document Imaging and Workflow technology across the council. Explore the journey Garry took his department on.

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HOW TO INCREASE EFFICIENCIES WITHN AP & REDUCE INVOICE PROCESSING FROM 12 TO 4 DAYS

Kevin Ingham, Head of AP, Atkins Global
This looks at how combining workflow and OCR technology increases AP process efficiencies and saves time. It looks at the planning behind the implementation, unexpected obstacles encountered, how these were overcome and steps now being taken to continually improve the process.

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HELPING AP GET CONTROL AND VISIBILITY OF INDIRECT SPEND

Sid Vasili, CEO Invapay
Unlock the mystery of how to track indirect spend, and regain the control you need, to feel like the master of your company's spend. 60% of indirect spend in most organisations is untracked, let's make sure your orgaisation doesn't beome a part of these statistics.

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BEST PRACTICE IN AP: CROSS-INDUSTRY CASE STUDIES

Daniel Izsak, General manager Europe & Africa, AnyDoc Software
Sharing experience from projects in finance, healthcare, utilities, government, industry, trade and services, Danuiel identifies the potential of using digital mailroom solutions and automatic document processing in AP. We will discuss customer cases like Sixt, Calor Gas, capita and others to explain key factors for process optimisation and to show how AP can become any organisation's critical success factor.

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MAKING THE BEST USE OF AP: GAIN CLEARER VISIBILITY & TIGHTEN UP YOUR INVOICE PROCESSING CONTROLS

Mark Fura, Financial Systems Controller & Jane White, Accounts Payable Manager, Lloydspharmacy
Lloydspharmacy is a multi-site operation with over 1,600 sites across the UK. This session examines how they tackled process change and standardisation of approvals for people in their business and how approval levels and accountability were pushed upwards. They will also reveal how to leverage the systems you have to increase automation, enhance data quality, tighten your controls on spend and enable sizable year on year savings.