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SoftCo for Transport & Logistics

Automating the Transport & Logistics Industry

Transport and logistics financial teams tackle multifaceted obstacles due to the intricate operational procedures, high number of transactions, and the crucial role of supply chain management. These complexities become increasingly important when coupled with significant costs incurred from the likes of fuel, transportation, warehousing, and customs duties. SoftCoP2P for Transport & Logistics equips finance teams to adeptly handle supply chain complexities, regulate costs, and streamline cash flow. It automates invoice processing, which reduces payment delays and expedites reconciliation, leading to improved liquidity. SoftCo’s Pre-Approved Spend module features real-time cost tracking, data analytics, and effective budgeting capabilities providing finance teams with a clear understanding of cost variables, enabling informed decision-making.

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SoftCoP2P delivers unrivalled savings. Smart Matching, powered by AutoML Machine Learning, removes manual elements of invoice matching, resulting in an industry-leading 90% touchless invoice processing. It streamlines the complex task of processing multi-line invoices to multiple POs and handles delivery slip matching, freeing up valuable time and resources. Smart Coding and Smart Routing also utilize Machine Learning to automatically determine the correct routing and coding of invoices, resulting in 89% faster processing of non-PO invoices compared to manual environments. Surcharge processing is automated regardless of the way in which they are presented, reducing the time to process by 95%.

SoftCoP2P is truly global, handling multiple entities and multiple currencies in multiple languages. It eliminates maverick spending and delivers efficiencies, cost savings and 100% visibility & control over the entire procure to pay process. SoftCoP2P software boosts your key vendor relationships by providing an efficient onboarding process and full visibility over the status of their invoices. The solution enforces and optimizes pricing agreements with your preferred vendors. It also manages the request, purchase, and control of contract-based spend.

Benefits of SoftCoP2P for Transport and Logistics

Improved
Inventory Management.

90% Straight Through
Invoice Processing.

Real-time Tracking
of Logistics Expenses.

Fuel and Fleet
Management.

Better Freight and
Customs Management.

89%
Cost Savings.

How to Reduce Costs with
Procurement Spend Analysis

How SoftCoP2P for Transport and Logistics works

Streamlined Vendor Management

SoftCo Vendor Management delivers the benefits of working efficiently with preferred Vendors. Purchasing is optimized, costs reduced, and administration is eliminated. The cloud-based solution ensures Vendors have full online visibility of all orders and invoices and queries and disputes are addressed immediately.

Superior Smart Coding

SoftCo non-PO invoice handling reduces processing time by up to 90%, with industry leading compliance and audit checks. SoftCo Non-PO Smart Coding intelligently identifies and learns coding patterns allowing it to automatically code invoices, saving time and eliminating error.

Agile and Efficient eProcurement

SoftCo eProcurement (electronic procurement software) ensures a quick and efficient purchasing process for all operational spend, in full compliance with your organization’s procurement policies. SoftCo eProcurement software streamlines capital, recurring and operational spend.

Accelerated Invoice Approval workflow

SoftCo Accounts Payable Automation delivers an accelerated, secure invoice approval process with configurable automated workflows. With multiple verifiers and approvers, invoices are routed for approval, automated email notifications are sent, followed by reminders. Un-actioned invoices are routed to an alternative approver, ensuring minimal process delay. 

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Simplified Pre-Approved Spend

SoftCo’s eProcurement solution offers a seamless pre-approved spend functionality, enabling easy access to pre-approved or capital budgets for projects with preferred vendors. For recurring expenses like subscriptions, leasing, rent, and utilities, SoftCo’s eProcurement software provides a contract PO to vendors, referencing the agreed installment or payment plan as per the contract/subscription.

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Single Payment Workflow

SoftCoPay transforms payments from a cost center to a profit center by reducing costs, earning rebates, mitigating payment risk, and optimizing payment type. Payments are streamlined into an easy to use workflow. The seamless process, from receipt of invoice to vendor payment, delivers control and transparency with straightforward reconciliation through your ERP and a fully auditable payment process.

Precise Invoice Data Capture

SoftCo Accounts Payable Automation captures all invoice data, regardless of the format received from your Vendors, using advanced Data Capture technology or via SoftCo’s outsource data capture service. Processing times are improved, and keying errors eliminated.

100% Control of Project Spend

SoftCo Pre-Approved Spend functionality enables a seamless drawdown on pre-agreed budgets and the generation of purchase orders for spend with preferred vendors, without delay. Department budgets are not exceeded and spend with your vendors is controlled.

Unrivalled Invoice Matching

The SoftCo Matching Engine uses advanced RPA technology removing all manual elements of invoice matching, delivering an error-free, efficient process for all invoice types. The SoftCo Smart Matching engine applies Machine Learning technology to even the most complicated matching scenarios, such as incomplete data, missing product codes, and FX conversions to deliver 90% match rates.

Powerful Reporting and AI Analytics

SoftCo delivers industry leading analytics to empower organizations to make informed decisions. SoftCoP2P offers both SoftCo Advanced Analytics, part of the SoftCo solution, and the ability to integrate with 3rd party analytics tools. The platform provides accurate, real-time information over AP productivity, invoice processing rates and payments performance.

Industry-leading innovative AutoML Matching Engine

SoftCo AutoML Machine Learning

SoftCo’s unique AutoML Machine learning automates the time-consuming and iterative tasks associated with Invoice Automation, delivering unparalleled savings for the customer, with full auditability and control.

Utilizing millions of real data from Industry, Operations, Organizations, and Suppliers, the SoftCo AutoML Machine Learning engine ‘learns’ and improves based on 250+ match ‘patterns’ and applies this automation to SoftCo Smart Matching models, including tolerance, aggregation, and confidence match criteria. SoftCo AutoML uses real-time dynamic data. Instead of relying on stale static data, the engine learns immediately every time an invoice finishes processing, constantly improving automation customized to the specific organization.

Machine Learning (ML) is a game-changer in automating both PO and Non-PO invoicing, with full transparency and auditability. Manual invoice processing can cost $16 per invoice, whereas high invoice automation, driven by AutoML reduces processing costs by over 90%. The same ML technology is applied to the coding and routing of invoices, which are optimized by AutoML based on continuous learned patterns.

The results are unrivaled, and the savings exceptional. SoftCo delivers 90% straight through processing for PO invoices and 89% faster processing of Non-PO invoices.

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SoftCo SmartConnect seamlessly integrates with over 200 ERP’s

Seamless, secure and timely integration with the Finance system or ERP is a key part of any P2P or AP Automation solution. Integrating your ERP with SoftCo will expand its capabilities, making it a more powerful business tool than ever before. SoftCo SmartConnect is a secure, highly configurable cloud based platform which manages all of the data exchange between the ERP and SoftCo. SoftCo integrates seamlessly with existing ERP systems at a single point, thus offering access to real-time information and data.

SoftCo SmartConnect has seamlessly integrated with over 200 ERP’s including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Infor, Sage and multiple industry specific and even bespoke ERP’s.

Additional Resources

eBook

Automating Accounts Payable for Retail

Retail organizations are encountering industry-specific challenges. Learn how automation can resolve the significant challenges of manual AP processes and the value it adds to the retail supply chain.

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On-Demand Webinar

The Rise of Surcharges & How to Manage Them

Learn how SoftCoAP simplifies and accelerates the process of capturing and accounting for different types of surcharges, to ensure accuracy over the true costs of goods and materials.

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Blog

Key Accounts Payable Metrics That Matter to Your CEO

Here we run-through important accounts payable performance metrics that can be monitored to ensure that your AP department is running both efficiently and effectively.

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