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Order to Cash Process

Automate order-to-cash with EDI and save £35 per transaction

Key benefits
  • Reduce operational costs
  • Lower prices for your customers
  • Increase product availability
  • Get products to market faster
  • Faster receiving and storing of goods
  • Closer trading relationships

Order-to-cash is the business process where goods are ordered, delivered and received, invoiced and paid for. Whether you’re receiving or delivering goods, this process is critical for most businesses. When orders are improperly received, fulfilled, delivered or invoiced, payments may be delayed or refused and customers may cancel and even choose not to return.

Large numbers of documents are required for the order-to-cash process to function effectively, including purchase orders, advanced shipping notices (ASNs) and invoices. In the competitive food services economy, you cannot operate efficiently if you use manual, paper-based processes for handling these documents. There’s a crucial need for fast, accurate, efficient and cost-effective solution.

Food service organisations can automate their entire order-to-cash process by using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and GS1 standards. This replaces paper-based documents with electronic messages removing the need for human intervention.  By automating the order-to-cash process with EDI you can exchange business documents faster and at a much lower cost to:

  • save £14 per order, £8.50 per invoice and £12 per despatch advice
  • increase customer satisfaction and loyalty by reducing out of stocks by 5%
  • gain a competitive edge by exchanging orders and invoices almost instantaneously
  • reduce disputes with your trading partners with more accurate data
  • create an electronic audit trail to improve traceability and measure performance
  • reduce labour costs with fewer manual processes
  • Contact us to:

    • talk to our experts about your current order-to-cash process and how we can help you reduce costs with EDI
    • take part in a webinar session where you can learn more about the benefits of EDI
    • arrange for our experts to show you how we can build a business case for your company to implement EDI

    T: 020 7092 3500
    E: info@gs1uk.org

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