Punchout Lowers Procurement Costs And Improves Working Capital Performance
Accurate measurement of days sales outstanding (DSO) and days payable outstanding (DPO) are critical for assessing overall corporate financial health, since total working capital performance can only be determined when DSO and DPO are used in conjunction with days inventory [...]
Why Finance Executives Should Care About Attended RPA and Order Entry Optimization
Ask any finance executive about one of the things they obsess over, and it is invariably Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). The magic number of how many days it takes for a company to convert its accounts receivables into cash varies [...]
Procure to Pay, The Last Guy Picked in Dodgeball
For those of you old enough to remember grade school dodgeball, you might recall the very uncomfortable process of selecting teams. There had to be someone who was picked last. I felt sorry for the poor classmate who was left [...]
Coding for Clarity: The Hidden Costs of Code
There are thousands of ways to code a solution to meet any business requirement. From a business perspective, as long as the code performs the required function it works. Code is a living construct in that it is likely it [...]
Building the Business Case for Robotic Process Automation: The Promise and Peril
Table of Contents Should we consider Attended versus Unattended RPA? What processes actually stand to gain the most from RPA, and where should RPA be focused? Is my business process a good candidate for RPA? [...]
Effective Business Process Automation: The Hybrid RPA Approach
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) was developed to both assist and replace work accomplished by human beings. Processes are standardized, centralized, and optimized with the deployment of software bots which can accomplish tasks with flawless precision and effortless scalability. Talent within organizations [...]
Ebook Launch: A Better Way to RPA
The leadership within the Clear Software organization have decades of combined history in the ERP industry. Jon Gilman, our CEO, founded Clear Software because he grew weary of seeing companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on IT projects that [...]
Business Process Automation for Order to Cash
The downstream impact of inaccurate or delayed Order-to-Cash processes are enormous to an organization: Customers are frustrated, impacting satisfaction, retention, and the ability of a company to increase overall revenues. In a digital world, where customers share their frustrations, you [...]
Feeling Ripped Off By Your ERP? You’re Not Alone
Summary: ERP software was supposed to increase operational efficiency at large organizations, but in most cases the opposite has happened. You can get more out of your technology investments without throwing them away, but you need to change your perspective [...]
Press Release: Clear Software Welcomes Orr Fellow Eileen Miller
ZIONSVILLE, IN -- February 6, 2018 -- Clear Software, the market leader in the simplification of business software, welcomes new Orr Fellow Eileen Miller of Lake Forest, Illinois. A December 2017 graduate of Purdue University with a degree in Brain [...]
Email Integration into SAP, Salesforce, et al
It's undeniable that business software like SAP, Salesforce, and Oracle E-Business Suite are extremely powerful. They literally run core processes at most of the Fortune 500 - from sales to purchasing to manufacturing to finance. However, email integration is one [...]
One Year at Clear – Conclusions and Looking Ahead
In the conclusion of the One Year at Clear series, Kaitlin and Shelby finish their reflections and look forward to another year of learning and growth both for themselves and for Clear! Shelby: When I think back to where I [...]
One Year at Clear – Individual Growth
In this post, Shelby and Kaitlin will explore the ways they’ve grown throughout the course of their first year with Clear Software. Shelby: I’ve learned a lot over the past year related to translating. Not in terms of translating from [...]
One Year at Clear – Company Growth
Looking back on their first year at Clear Software, our teammates Kaitlin and Shelby have experienced both the growth of the company and significant personal and professional growth. These changes are interconnected: as the company has grown, they’ve risen to [...]
Frustration Series Part 4: Record Keeping Woes
You may use online banking to keep track of your personal expenses. It’s simple, right? You log in, and with just a few clicks you can understand the state of your personal finances, including cash outflows, inflows, debts owed, and [...]
Frustration Series Part 3: Company Merger Madness
Perhaps simultaneously one of the most exciting and frightening events in business: a merger. Exciting because of expanded capabilities and new business opportunities, but frightening for the way it can upset the normal day-to-day order of a business. Duplicate departments [...]
Frustration Series Part 2: Invoicing Irritations
Hopefully, one of the most common activities a business performs is selling things to customers. This is the lifeblood of any business, right? And, records must be created and managed in order to track this fundamental business activity. Typically, you [...]
Frustration Series: Introduction
Frustration: the feeling of being upset or annoyed, especially because of inability to change or achieve something. It’s a feeling we all have experienced at one time or another, whether it was because of something as big as a delayed [...]