Objectives
This new model, which was introduced at the Council in early 2019, was introduced to reduce costs while processing the same number of invoices, and to free up more time by improving the efficiency of the whole invoicing process. This meant reducing the time needed by the AP team to process invoices.
“The time needed to manually index and register invoices was very time consuming, with more chance for errors,” stated Steven Rogers, Management Accountant (Treasury), Treasury & Technical Accounting, Bedford Borough Council.