How to Choose the Right Lab Notebook Scanning Solution Managing notes and raw data throughout an R&D program is a daunting but critical responsibility. R&D data can take many forms: spreadsheets, memos, experimental write-ups, drawings, specialty documents like ECGs, and most commonly, handwritten lab notebooks. Whatever the form, it’s your intellectual property (IP) and it’s…
You’ve been here before—sitting in your restaurant’s back office, looking at a pile of paid invoices. You’ll need to keep those receipts for at least seven years in case you get audited, and you may need some of them to settle payment disputes with your vendors down the line. But for right now, they’re dead…
As a manager, you know better than anyone that time is money, efficiency is the name of the game, and all those other clichés about digitizing being the wave of the future. So why is your team still handling accounts payable with the same old paper-heavy processes? You’ve probably heard of AP automation software, but…
Workflow automation can help you streamline your business processes and reduce costs, and if you’re new to automation, accounts payable is a great place to start. Besides expediting the review, approval and payment process automation eliminates the risk of data entry errors and reduces the accidental loss of data and documentation. But just as importantly,…
For companies that want to improve their bottom lines, continuously reassessing and upgrading key business processes is crucial. When deciding which processes to improve to get the best ROI, the accounts payable department is a good place to start because its functions impact every department in addition to the bottom line. In fact, automating even…
It’s Monday morning. You have a to-do list a mile long: check in with the team about progress on that big new account, find out what happened to an important missing invoice that’s now a week late, sit in a few hour-long meetings. It seems like you rarely have time to accomplish everything you need…
At MetaSource we sell solutions not products. The products can be pretty impressive. But when we combine state-of-the-art technology and processes to create solutions tailor-made for the needs of a particular client, “impressive” doesn’t begin to cover it. Jaw-dropping is more like it. And every once in a while, we accomplish something so transformative that…
In an increasingly digital world, paper-based businesses are often at a disadvantage to competitors. From order fulfillment to grievances and employment applications, everything done on paper adds costs and slows down internal processes, generating confusion, creating unclear workflows, and increasing the risk of data entry errors and lost or misplaced documentation—all of which can compound…
Closing the Gaps with Better Workflows Streamlining invoice processing with workflow automation can help you save a significant amount of time and money. Compared to manual invoice processing, an automated invoice flow accelerates approval times, increases data accuracy, and cuts down the cost of invoice preparation. Workflow automation allows your business to replace the physical…
AP automation speeds up invoice processing and allows companies to handle a higher volume of documents than would otherwise be possible. But beyond speed and volume improvements, accounts payable automation also provides benefits in other areas that positively impact a business’ bottom line. If your AP department is struggling due to problems like high processing…