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Document Automation is No Sweat for Gildan Activewear  The Bottomline The Devil’s in the Details First Look Create!archive 6.0 Tips & Techniques Using Non-Unicode Asian Fonts in Create!form   May 24-26, 2006 TMA Chicago’s 20th Annual Windy City Summit Chicago, IL May 31-June 1, 2006 TMA NY’s 2006 New York Cash Exchange New York, NY June 11-13, 2006 IOMA AP Issues Forum: The Power of "e" in AP Chicago, IL June 12-14, 2006 ACE Claims Conference New Orleans, LA June 20-22, 2006 IQPC’s Procure-to-Pay Summit San Francisco, CA 
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The Bottomline On Innovation:
Ready, Set, Go: An AP Automation Checklist As one of the leading providers of invoice automation solutions, Bottomline has had the opportunity to work closely with hundreds of organizations, providing them with the software tools, innovative services and knowledge necessary to transform accounts payable into an efficient operational function. Through our experience we’ve helped even the most complex of organizations realize that AP automation isn’t as daunting as some people make it out to be and that initiatives can indeed get off the ground quickly. If you are considering launching an AP automation initiative, here are a few tips to help get you get off to a fast start. Read more
Quality Begets Speed-to-Market Without question, banks today are under tremendous pressure. Brought about by mega-mergers, increased competition, regulatory changes and technology shifts, the industry’s focus on cost-cutting often impedes innovation. Banks that have moved forward with new product offerings are so driven by speed-to-market that they are frequently forced to cobble together solutions, combining off-the-shelf products, in-house development and a parade of process workarounds just to meet customer demand. As a result, many banks remain mired in a legacy of operational complexity that has increased their infrastructure maintenance burden and functionally impaired their ability to bring new products and services to market efficiently. Unable or unwilling to toss out their old systems, many of these banks are in the process of building blueprints to transition current environments to more responsive and profitable ones. Read more
Using Invoice Line-Item Visibility to Your Advantage Getting a handle on corporate spending can be difficult. It requires the ability to quickly review line-item invoice data and track it over time. Yet for many finance departments, the vast majority of spend information remains locked in paper invoices, dispersed to a hierarchy of approvers across the organization. In a business climate demanding greater visibility and control of expenses, a growing number of finance directors have sought alternative approaches to streamlining the payables process – adopting a wide range of solutions from in-house data capture and automation tools to the paperless workflow of electronic invoice exchanges. Read more
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I’ve
always found new customer product launches to be a particularly exciting
time here at Bottomline. It’s not merely witnessing the culmination of
hard work and dedication of our team, but the satisfaction in knowing
that our existing and future customers will be better equipped to
improve their businesses and deliver greater value to their clients.
Earlier this month when we launched
Gildan Activewear is a vertically integrated marketer and manufacturer of premium quality branded basic apparel such as T-shirts, sport shirts and sweatshirts, serving wholesale imprinted sportswear markets in the U.S., Canada, Europe and other global geographies. Like many global manufacturing organizations, Gildan’s operations were tied together by a vast catalog of paper-based forms, many of which were pre-printed. Across its business, Gildan utilized as many as 60 different paper forms (invoices, purchase orders, shipping documents, customs documents, etc.) as well as 27 different AP check formats. While such a large number of forms and checks would create challenges for any company, Gildan’s
organizational structure, consisting of primary operating facilities in
Canada, the U.S., Central America and the Caribbean, required them to
maintain pre-printed documents in French, English and Spanish.