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Byline: Tracey Caldwell.
Wigan Council is looking forward to making savings totalling [pounds sterling]250,000 after automating its purchase invoice process.
The council was struggling to pay suppliers within 30 days and needed to automate the process to meet e-government targets. It struck a deal with Graphic Data Online (GDO) to scan past and present invoices and capture the data alongside the scanned image.
The data is now fed into the council's Comino document management solution weekly. Invoices are matched with purchase orders and, once approved, are posted to an Agresso Financial system.
Ian Kell, deputy director of finance and IT at Wigan Council, said the bureau solution suits the council, which plans to move to a paperless model in the longer term. "We could have used an invoice imaging ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Wigan council acts on payments targets.(Brief Article)