Accelerating Consultant Billing Cycles through Automatic Invoice Creation, Delivery and Retrieval

Overview

LBM Systems’ software successfully enabled data driven form creation and delivery.
Image copies of all output are stored to fulfill document storage legal requirements.

Return on investment: Under seven months.

Customer

One of the United Kingdom’s best-known consulting firms that provides consulting services out of 17 offices in the United Kingdom.

Customer Need

Nothing is more valuable to consultants than time: the more time consultants spend on client accounts and away from internal paperwork valuably contributes to the bottom line. When it comes to invoicing, fast invoice delivery to customers means faster payments. In order for Mercer to take advantage of their IT infrastructure, they needed to intelligently build and deliver documents based on application data values. In addition, documents must be stored exactly as they were created in order to satisfy legal requirements for reprints.

Applications

Commercial accounting applications specifically designed for managing consultant-related financial and accounting data.

Solution

LBM software intelligently formats output based on data-driven triggers and delivers the unique form to the appropriate office. At the same time, a PDF image of the document is created and delivered to an online storage server for document retrieval, completely eliminating the need for manual filing of office copies. Consultant time is freed up to generate more business, and documents are efficiently distributed to remote offices for faster processing.