The Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc, ConAgra Foods, Motorola, and Pilot Travel Centers, were all honored for excellence in accounts payable automation by research and consulting firm, PayStream Advisors, last month at the annual PayStream ePayables Summit held in Charlotte, NC.
The Children’s Place Retail Stores
The Children’s Place Retail Stores award was presented to Vice President of Business Process Improvement at The Children’s Place Paul Santini. Children’s Place implemented ASPEN 360 Accounts Payable Edition from Archive Systems.
“We quickly recognized the need to automate the accounts payable process in order to increase efficiencies, reduce costs, and ensure timely payments,” said Santini.
ConAgra Foods
The ConAgra Foods award was presented to Jeff Janssen, Finance Manager at ConAgra. ConAgra chose 170 Systems to automate their processes.
According to Janssen the answer to their accounts payable dilemma centered in large part on enterprise-wide standardization, automation and improvement of underlying practices and systems.
Motorola
The Motorola award was presented to Motorola’s Senior Accounts Payable Manager Michael Riggins. Motorola conducted an extensive RFP process and chose OB10 as their e-invoicing partner.
Under Riggins’ leadership overseeing the initial technical interface, the electronic invoicing plan went live on schedule and with a nearly flawless rollover to production.
Pilot Travel Centers
The Pilot Travel Centers award was presented to Pilot’s Accounts Payable Manager, Estelle Bluhm. Electronic invoices are obtained through OB10’s supplier network and then captured within Concur Invoice for complete visibility to all invoice types.
Under Bluhm’s leadership, Pilot Travel Centers has moved from a decentralized model, where invoices were received at their more than 340 stores, to a centralized model.
PayStream Excellence Awards
PayStream Advisors’ annual excellence award honors companies for excellence and achievement in automation AP processes with electronic invoicing and imaging and workflow.
