Business as usual is not always efficient business.  The manufacturing industry utilizes documents in almost every facet of their core line of business.  Whether it is for writing orders, confirming orders, ordering the material for the products that they produce, shipping products to the customer or invoicing for payment,  all of these hard copy documents create a drain on corporate resources, which could be rectified with a simple enterprise document management.

The inefficiencies that surround hard copy documents generated in a trucking environment stem from the excessive expenditure of hard and soft dollars associated with the lifecycle of a document.  The lifecycle of a document consumes:

• Paper or Pre-printed form
• Toner
• Printer maintenance
• Paper for cover pages
• Facsimile maintenance
• Facsimile phone charges
• Envelopes
• Postages
• Filing cabinets
• Filing supplies
• Office Space & Utilities
• Destruction costs
• Labor man-hours

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In addition, there is no way of tracking the progress of these manually transmitted hardcopy documents.  The progress or lifecycle of a document has a direct relationship with corporate America’s core line of business.  If the lifecycle of business documents are neglected or not managed, a company’s core line-of-business are adversely affected. 
 
Cornerstone Communications specializes in enterprise document management and cost reduction strategies for the manufacturing industry.  We work to streamline costs associated with the creation, distribution and storage of critical business documents.  Our proven strategies have helped our clients become more efficient and more profitable, giving them a competitive advantage.  We have worked with over 800 executive teams worldwide including Goodyear, Mattel, and Cardinal Health.

Cornerstone’s enterprise document management strategies eliminate the hard and soft cost associated with manufacturing documents.  By implementing Unifier, one of Cornerstone’s proven document strategies, labor is never burdened and resources are never expended.  For example, as a purchase order is generated with a line-of-business software package, Unifier will capture the purchase order data, customize it with an electronic form, automatically distribute it to the appropriate vendor, and simultaneously store an electronic copy of this document for future retrieval from the desktop or the web. 

An additional benefit of our new electronic document process verses a manual document process, is that every document is accompanied by an audit trail or what we like to call an “electronic finger print” of each document.

Click here for answers to specific questions you may have about utilizing an enterprise document management system within the manufacturing industry.