accounts_payable · finance · workflow
NWFM optimizes accounts payable with Laserfiche, achieving over 300% increase in invoice capacity
NWFM's manual, paper-based accounts payable process could not scale with company growth: area managers made purchases at remote locations, invoice tracking was prone to bottlenecks, and documents were easily misplaced.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Field invoice upload
Area managers upload pictures of invoices directly to Laserfiche from remote locations using FastField purchase order software.
Tools used
Laserfiche
Outcome
NWFM scaled invoice processing from 250 to more than 1,000 invoices per month, achieved hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings, identified $14,000 in billing errors per year, and returned $72,000 in unused chemicals.
Results
Time saved250 to more than 1,000
VolumeOver 300%
Cost replacedhundreds of thousands of dollars in savings
Grounding & classification
Source type: vendor customer story
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