In this post we feature a slide deck from a presentation made by Joseph Haroun from DHL at the Kofax Connect event held in Toronto in May 2011. DHL has been working with members of the Yakidoo management team since 2002 on a series of projects in the areas of data capture and business process automation.

Presentation Hi-lites

Profile: DHL Express

• • World market leader in air-express services, covering all packages, express and general cargo services
  • Delivery to over 220 countries and 120,000 destinations worldwide
  • Tens of thousands of shipments processed daily

Key Issues

• • High overhead costs for manual processing of waybills, billings and invoices
  • Delays in invoicing customers, processing and depositing cheques
  • Decentralized receipt, sorting and processing of invoices

Solution

• • A phased approach to capture data from waybills, invoices and cheques
  • Use of OCR to accelerate capture process, reduce manual data entry and move to validation of exceptions
  • Automation of accounts receivable and payable processes

Outcome

• • Significant reduction in overhead costs
  • Reduction of workload on data validation staff
  • Leveraged existing infrastructure whenever and where ever possible

Presentation

Slide 2: About DHL and Yakidoo
Slides 4-5: Phase 1 - Waybill Processing, Capture
Slides 6-9: Phase 2 - Waybill Processing, OCR
Slides 9-11: Phase 3 - Accounts Receivable, Payment Processing
Slides 12-14: Phase 4 - Accounts Payable, Invoice Processing
Slide 15: Other deployments - Signature Capture and Extraction

If you’d like Yakidoo to brief you on this project please contact me (see below for how).

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About the Author

Victor Bensusan is CEO of Yakidoo. He has 20 years experience in Finance and Information Technology primarily in the area of process automation, information management and business performance improvement.