The Cachet Fiorano SOA Solution : Invoicing and Dispatch

• Default SAP methodology for Invoice Creation
  • Five separate steps for each Invoice, nine SAP screens
  • Designed for generality where multiple people may be needed to execute separate steps
  • Time per invoice: 12 minutes on average
  • Significant SAP training needed for each person creating invoices
• Optimized Invoice Creation
  • Company personnel work off friendly HTML screens instead of proprietary SAP screens
  • Single step, two screens, no specific training required
  • 2 minutes per invoice: 600% efficiency improvement
• Benefits
  • For a company creating over 10000 invoices monthly, the savings are over 200 man-days per month which translates to over £ 750k/year in savings on just one optimized process
  • Solution design/implementation time: 2 weeks
  • No (expensive, SAP-specific) training required at local or remote locations
  • Non-technical personnel in remote locations/factories can easily create dispatch requests and invoices