How CFOs Can Better Focus on High Value Tasks

Document process automation allows Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) to significantly reduce operational costs and focus resources on higher value tasks, says Christophe DuMonet, Managing Director, Esker Australia Pty Ltd. It eliminates manual, tedious, repetitive, low value activities, he adds.

From a sponsor company at the upcoming marcus evans CFO Summit 2012, in the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 4 – 6 March, DuMonet highlights the value of document process automation for CFOs.

Read the full article here.

Automate your fax and email orders. You know you want to…

You know that sales orders coming in through fax and email are a pain. You have to find them, print them, figure out what they are, manually key in order data, and file them somewhere. Then, hope you can find them again if the customer happens to call in to check on the status, or worse, complain that they didn’t received their order or received it incorrectly. But what you may not know is that there’s an easy fix!

The cure is sales order automation. A solution that makes every order electronic, increases order visibility so you know who’s doing what with each order, and cuts order processing cost and time by at least 40% is out there. Even better, this solution is affordable, scalable, and can automate invoices and other documents as well.

Join Esker for a live webinar, “Automating Fax and Email Orders without Breaking the Bank” on February 16th at 1:00pm CDT to learn more about taking the pain out of fax and email orders. You’ll learn about the benefits of order automation and hear about our customers who have realized great gains in customer satisfaction, employee productivity and cost savings as a result.

To attend the webinar, register here: http://www.esker.com/feb16webinar

The Headcount Balancing Act

In a bad economy, how do you justify having the staff you have? That’s one of the issues facing customer service management today. Orders are still coming in, and those orders still need to be processed, but the orders are for much lower amounts, therefore the impact to the bottom line is much less. And, to make things trickier, the order volume is actually growing for several companies as their customers are placing orders more often, but for less dollar amounts tied to each order. So the time and effort involved in processing orders is more, which impacts everything from first-call resolution, to customer satisfaction, to workload balance and order accuracy – but the revenue growth is less, affecting the ability to justify hiring additional staff to deal with the increased volumes.

This headcount balancing act is not an easy one. Making sure you have the right number of customer service reps processing orders to not have downtime or overload is a science. Luckily, our customers have figured out that adding order automation to the equation makes things in the customer service world a lot better. With an automation solution, management is able to have visibility into order volumes, therefore being able to better forecast and measure workload, and it also frees up the customer service reps from manually entering order data and shuffling around paper to focusing on what is most important: the customer.

Learn more at www.esker.com.

Kärcher Selects Esker to Automate Sales Order Processing and Standardize Customer Service

Madison, WI – January 24, 2012 Esker, a foremost authority in document process automation solutions, today announced the signing of a contract with Kärcher North America — a global leader in the production of consumer, commercial, and industrial cleaning equipment — to centralize customer service functionalities and automate fax processes with a single, cloud-based solution.

Of the 450 sales orders received daily — across all of Kärcher’s 12 distinguished product brands and seven North American locations — nearly 90 percent of them come in via fax. Since each fax is manually processed, and all Kärcher brands have independent customer service organizations, the visibility, efficiency and confidence in their paper-based method was low. In an effort to improve processes, optimize staff and simplify the customer service landscape, Kärcher sought a hosted solution that could easily integrate with their current SAP® system.

Read the full Press Release here.

Esker Q4 2011 Sales Activity: A record fourth quarter

Madison, WI – January 18, 2012

Growth continues at rapid pace in Q4

Esker Q4 2011 sales revenue increased 10% based on fixed and current exchange rates over a particularly strong Q4 2010. At over 10 million Euros, Esker experienced its most successful quarter since its establishment in 1985. Despite difficult market conditions, particularly in Europe, these excellent results are largely due to the success of Esker’s document process automation solutions (+15%) and its solid performance in the United States.

Read the full Press Release here.

CAPSA Automates the Exchange of Strategic Information with Customers and Suppliers Thanks to Esker On-Demand Solutions

Madison, WI – January 17, 2012 – Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, announced today that it has been selected by Corporacion Alimentaria Penasanta, S.A. (CAPSA), a leading Spanish milk and dairy company, for its on-demand Fax Services for SAP® applications solution. In addition to managing the delivery and receipt of faxes in SAP applications, Esker technology also enables CAPSA to send Short Message Services (SMSes) containing critical milk analysis reports to over 1,500 dairy farmers directly from SAP applications.

Read the full Press Release here.

Human Capital

- Contributed by Brian Erlien, Inside Account Executive, Esker

I read an interesting article from Tech Crunch about why Apple bought Anobit. 

The article states two main reasons:

  1. Because of the flash memory controllers produced by Anobit are used in Apple’s Products
  2. With this one acquisition Appled added 160 Chip Engineers (this represents about a 10% increase in Apple’s current Chip Engineering Department).

 Anyone that follows Apple knows that they have a ton of cash but, they don’t spend it foolishly. Read more of this post

Check out these top trends for accounts payable in 2012

I was reading through the latest issue of Financial Operations Matters and found this article” Are you ready for Lean AP?” which highlights some of the upcoming trends that are predicted for accounts payable automation in 2012.     Some of the more interesting parts of the article include: Read more of this post

It Takes Two to E-invoice

Anyone involved in business management has read about the benefits of electronic invoicing. However, actually adopting a solution can be a difficult process and often falls into the “nice to have” list of things that improve efficiencies. Why is this?

There are several reasons vendors wish to send their customers e-invoices (e.g., cost savings, process efficiencies, reduced environmental impact, etc.). Unfortunately, many customers do not welcome the e-format — some are reluctant to follow their vendors’ practices. In other cases, small companies, free-lancers and other businesses in unique sectors are simply not prepared to use the e-format. Additionally, e-invoices are not obligatory and cannot be imposed. In Spain, where e-invoicing regulation is among the strictest in the world, customers must give consent before receiving e-invoices from vendors, keeping the right to withdraw their decision at any time.

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SAP Business ByDesign Selects Esker as its Integrated Online Postal Mail Service

Esker, the leader in document process automation solutions, announced today that it has been selected by SAP AG as a solution partner to provide a complementary solution for SAP Business ByDesign. Esker’s solution for online postal mail services will integrate directly with SAP Business ByDesign, the comprehensive, fully integrated, on-demand business management solution dedicated to companies in the small and midsize enterprise (SME) market as well as to subsidiaries of large enterprises running SAP solutions. Customers will be able to securely submit their mail to any of the Esker worldwide production facilities where their document is printed, folded, stamped and put into the postal stream in less than 24 hours.

Read the full Press Release here.

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