Education and Communication Speed Buy-In for Centralization

When the manager started working as an AP clerk at the company, the accounts payable function was scattered among the main office and various mining sites and satellite offices. AP was not a shared service, and the organization did not have an automated workflow. When an invoice had to be routed, the three AP clerks had to send it out in a file folder. The staff used an archaic version of JD Edwards software, and there was no communication among the various sites. One site did not know what the…