Oxfordshire County Council issues RFP for Automation of the Accounts Payable Process provision
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) set up a Shared Service Centre in January 2007, centralising and streamlining back office functions including Accounts Payable. The Accounts Payable team processes approximately 120 000 invoices per annum on behalf of central services. Any solution developed will need to have the ability to process a significantly higher volume to cater for our Shared Service Centre expanding its services to schools and potentially other customers.
The County Council uses SAP R/3 ECC6 as its ERP system and has a contract with Serco who provide our SAP Environment as a hosted service and they undertake all configuration on our behalf. This contract runs until 2012 and any successful tenderer will be required to work in partnership with Serco to implement a solution.
Procurement transactions are undertaken using both SAP R/3 and SRM. The SRM module was implemented in February 2007 to coincide with the establishment of the centralised Accounts Payable function.
The next step in developing OCCs Accounts Payable function is to automate the input of invoices as far as possible, whilst improving the customer experience. OCC expects to make significant efficiency savings through the automation of the AP function.
It is expected that the solution selected will have the ability to scan paper invoices directly into SAP as well as utilise the technologies available to enable true e-invoicing. The successful tenderer will be expected to identify areas where true e-invoicing is achievable and implement this when the solution goes liveOxfordshire County Council issues RFP for Automation of the Accounts Payable Process provision
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) set up a Shared Service Centre in January 2007, centralising and streamlining back office functions including Accounts Payable. The Accounts Payable team processes approximately 120 000 invoices per annum on behalf of central services. Any solution developed will need to have the ability to process a significantly higher volume to cater for our Shared Service Centre expanding its services to schools and potentially other customers.
The County Council uses SAP R/3 ECC6 as its ERP system and has a contract with Serco who provide our SAP Environment as a hosted service and they undertake all configuration on our behalf. This contract runs until 2012 and any successful tenderer will be required to work in partnership with Serco to implement a solution.
Procurement transactions are undertaken using both SAP R/3 and SRM. The SRM module was implemented in February 2007 to coincide with the establishment of the centralised Accounts Payable function.
The next step in developing OCCs Accounts Payable function is to automate the input of invoices as far as possible, whilst improving the customer experience. OCC expects to make significant efficiency savings through the automation of the AP function.
It is expected that the solution selected will have the ability to scan paper invoices directly into SAP as well as utilise the technologies available to enable true e-invoicing. The successful tenderer will be expected to identify areas where true e-invoicing is achievable and implement this when the solution goes live.
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Just following up to see how your accounts payable automation process is working.
Our organization offers a Medius Flow software solution along with a Saas Model.
I would be very interested in hearing from you and seeing if we might be able to learn more about your organization and perhaps work together.