Mewburn Ellis find a more efficient way of processing their invoices using automation.
Background
Mewburn Ellis LLP is one of Europe’s leading intellectual property law firms. It is one of the UK’s largest firms of Chartered Patent Attorneys, European Patent Attorneys, European Trademark Attorneys and European Design Attorneys, with offices in London (Headquarters), Bristol, Manchester, Cambridge and Munich.
Challenge
Invoices needed to be processed faster and with a higher degree of accuracy to alleviate the frustrations and limitations of the team having to manually process circa 41,000 invoice pages per year, using 4 different systems. The team were looking to reduce time, effort, and errors associated with high-volume, manual business processing.
Solution
The Nexbotix solution combined intelligent software bots to extract, process and move the invoice data from source to the required destination, with the Nexbotix Intelligent Automation Hub (NIAH), the management SaaS platform, giving the end users everything, they needed to manage the automation, including data and insights, reviewing the extracted data and approving the bots work in real time.
ROI/Benefits
“The Nexbotix automation platform is delivering real operational efficiencies within Softcat, allowing us to scale as the business grows without additional headcount costs, and also eliminating any previous errors and backlogs, enabling Softcat’s Finance teams to focus on activities higher up the value chain.”
Howard Holland – Group Financial Controller Softcat