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Overview
First, we thoroughly analyze your business process and itemize its functional requirements. Next, we design and build custom applications to automate each of these functions. Finally, we link these applications through an Oracle backbone that speeds work through the system.
This "divide-and-conquer" strategy lets you allocate resources with maximum efficiency. For example, you can automate certain tasks; use more-affordable, less-skilled labor for others; and reserve expensive resources with expert knowledge for only those tasks that truly require them. The increased efficiencies and lower overhead that result typically pay for the system many times over.
The system creates a database record, or "work item", for each document that enters your business process. In the case of A/P, this is an invoice. If your business process incorporates an image-management system such as FileNet, then it scans the document and attaches images to the work item.
Once created, a work item moves through each function in your business process. Along the way, the system logs detailed entries for it. By examining its custom event log, you can construct a comprehensive audit trail for the work item at any step in your business process.
A typical business process includes the following functions:
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Data Validation
Data Validation is a process in which business rules specific to your organization are applied to work items. In the case of A/P, they might require invoice amounts to be less than a given maximum, invoice dates to fall within a given range, or given vendors to receive manual approval. The system logs an error for each business rule a work item violates.
Because this function can be automated, isolating it lowers overhead, decreases errors, increases speed, and improves accuracy.
If a work item violates any business rule, then the system sends it to Exception Handling. If a work item does not violate any business rules, then the system sends it to Data Export.
A simple diagram represents the typical business process.
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