What Differentiates World-Class


This Hackett Group research is an actionable summary that drills down on ?how? World-Class companies have leveraged digital transformation to excel over their peers

Contents

Chapter 01

Executive Summary

Chapter 02

Understanding World-Class Credit and A/R

Chapter 03

What Differentiates World-Class

Chapter 04

What Drives World-Class A/R Performance?
Chapter 03

What Differentiates World-Class


What makes A/R Leaders Stand Out?

By analyzing different indicators, these are the areas where A/R leaders have harnessed technology and cracked the code for being World-Class.

Analysts spend lesser time in clerical work

Percentage of analyst With the help of technology, such as robots and Artificial Intelligence, analysts in World-Class companies save 24% more time in low-value work such as:

  • collecting remittances/claims from emails, web-portals, faxes
  • scanning and keying-in data into spreadsheets
  • pulling credit details from public financials
  • generating account worklists for dunning

Analysts instead focus on strategic tasks, such as researching invalid deductions, controlling credit-risk, reducing critically delinquent accounts.

Advanced reporting and analytics provide better insight

Mature Score Card Program 50% of World-Class companies have advanced reporting and analytics capability providing† comprehensive process visibility and helping in decision-making by:

  • Drilling down on root cause
  • Real time reporting
  • Out of the box reporting

Technology positions executives to drive next-level process transformation versus policing metrics and process owners.

Teams are more effective

Error rates By automating business processes, A/R teams of World-Class companies are more effective and commit 66% lower errors associated with:

  • Manual data entry
  • Calculation errors
  • Aggregating data from disparate sources
  • Lack of complete information

Artificial Intelligence-enabled systems have self-learning capability that monitor analyst activity and improve over time, making lower mistakes.

Teams do the right things to collect faster

Credit sales collected in terms Digital transformation enables A/R teams of World-Class companies to collect 95% credit sales within payment terms. This is achieved by using technology that allows:

  • Proactive reminders and strategic dunning
  • Prediction of payment date by analyzing customer payment trends
  • Accelerated dispute resolution by predicting dispute validity
  • Automated, proactive credit reviews for identifying high-risk customers

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