Wednesday 30th April, 2014

The English Premier League, has moved towards a more automated system for processing invoices and providing a central document storage system.

Their new automation solution by EASY Software will process the 1,000 or so invoices which it receives from suppliers every month, in an update from its largely manual process.

It will also provide an electronic centralised storage area, which will eventually do away with unnecessary hard copies and excessive paper waste.

The solution is a pre-configured solution package specifically designed for Accounts Payable departments to completely automate their purchase invoice process. Functions include: intelligent OCR (optical character recognition) to extract invoice data from paper and electronic invoices, rules-based workflow for authorisation and finally storing documents long term in the archive. The process reduces processing times for purchase invoices and at the same time removes the need for error-prone routine data input by employees.

Richard Lindsay, Network and Systems Manager at the Premier League, comments:

"We believe that having the EASY INVOICE system in place will not only reduce the workload of our accounts payable department, but will also make the business more productive in the long run. Productivity should be greatly improved and that will probably be the main benefit, over and above even the financial benefits."