CFO Journal: Improve Working Capital Without Renegotiating Terms
August 23, 2022
“Working capital process challenges can range from ineffective communications between sales systems and ERPs to inadequate technology training. For example, if the descriptions of products in a company’s sales platform do not align to the back-end billing system, manual intervention will be required to correctly reflect on the invoice what was sold on the purchase order, introducing both delays and the possibility of errors. Meanwhile, ineffective tech training for employees using systems that feed data into reports and dashboards can lead some employees to create workarounds and manual processes that introduce inefficiencies, errors, and—ultimately—inaccurate metrics.”