How can utilities companies remain competitive?

When your customers are always looking for the best deal, how do you attract them?

Utility companies deal with millions of customers in an increasingly competitive environment. With people always looking for the best deal, they may switch supplier at any time. Often it is not just the lowest cost provider that will be a deciding factor for which Utility company is chosen. If poor customer service leads to a poor experience, the customer is far more likely to be susceptible to your competitor’s offers. An organisation’s ability to provide first-class customer service can make the difference between success and failure.

The Solution

Twofold Ltd help utility companies by supplying mailroom equipment and automation software to create your Digital Mailroom –  driving out the costs and inefficiencies of handling paper manually.

If you’re struggling with time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, with customer communications being handled from a range of devices and media, then it’s time to look at the digital mailroom to help identify, classify, route, store, and share your documents efficiently.

This reduced cost can be passed on to the customer and the resulting control and visibility of all documentation will also improve the overall customer experience.

Many of our Utility customers also utilise our ability to automate many of their legal, complaint, and compliance processes.

 

If you’re struggling with time-consuming and error-prone manual processes, with customer communications being handled from a range of devices and media, then it’s time to look at the digital mailroom to help identify, classify, route, store, and share your documents efficiently.

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Case Study Telecom Provider Boosts Productivity by 400%

telecoms business helped by Kofax software

Digital Transformation of Accounts Payable Function Results in Efficient Bill Payment and Reduced Penalties

Irvine, CA, July 11, 2018 – Kofax®, a leading supplier of software to automate and digitally transform information intensive processes, today announced a major telecommunications company significantly improved invoice processing productivity and reduced costs through its comprehensive implementation of Kofax software. With more than 1,000 pieces of mail received by the organization’s accounts payable (AP) department daily, the AP team needed a solution that would streamline invoice processing. Kofax Capture™, Kofax Transformation™ and Kofax Kapow™ work in tandem to expedite processing and payment of the company’s bills and reduce late payment penalties.

The Kofax solution enabled the telecom provider to move from paper to electronic billing and take advantage of online bill payment options offered by a number of government agencies and utilities companies. The organisation built dozens of Kofax RPA robots that automatically retrieve approximately 9,000 invoices per month from 30 online portals, delivering the information to its finance systems for automatic processing and payment. The company estimates its Kofax deployment has digitized close to 95% of its AP operations and increased productivity by 400%.

Kapow, the #originalbot, is robotic process automation (RPA) software that automates and digitally transforms a wide range of human and information intensive processes across front and back office operations. It allows users to develop and deploy smart robots that mimic human actions while driving continuous improvement using AI and machine learning. Kofax RPA robots interact seamlessly across desktop software, traditional enterprise and browser-based systems, and web sites, automating processes, aggregating data, transforming it into actionable information, triggering responses, and communicating with other applications.

The telecom provider is steadily expanding its web data extraction work, and ultimately plans to cover more than 100 vendor sites, using Kapow to retrieve more than 15,000 invoices every month. With the company’s Kapow usage escalating, full return on investment is expected within a year of the original implementation.

The provider further extended its digital transformation of the AP function by implementing Kofax Capture and Kofax Transformation to automatically extract key information from vendor invoices and integrate the newly digitized content with its back-end finance systems. Productivity rose by approximately 200% per person and half of the department’s full-time staff were reassigned to other areas within the organization. With the AP team processing invoices faster and more accurately, time-to-payment was shortened as well, reducing the risk of late penalties and disruption to services.

“By leveraging our proven intelligent process automation capabilities, including RPA, this telecom provider slashed invoice processing times, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and substantially increasing efficiency,” said Reynolds C. Bish, Chief Executive Officer of Kofax. “Kofax is enabling similar improvements in operational efficiency, responsiveness and cost savings to more than 20,000 enterprises around the world.”

Some of our utilities customers

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The key is finding the right balance for your organisation. By understanding the most effective process for paper and data, we can offer our clients innovative and tailor made solutions, resulting in an efficient and seamless customer experience.

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