About Lafarge

• The world leader in building materials• Aggregates and Concrete• Cement• Roofing• Gypsum

• Operates in 76 countries

• Has 2100 production sites

• Employs 80,000 people

Our Relationship with Lawson

• The Aggregates and Concrete division selected Lawson as it’s standard ERP in 1998

• The UK business implemented Lawson May 2000

• The modules covered were:• Financials (GL,AP,AR, CB)• Activity Management• Fixed Assets• Inventory Control• Procure to Pay

Issues We Encountered

• Some of the issues we encountered with Lawson were:

• Poor presentation of documents:– Statements– Invoices– Purchase Orders

• Not easy to give our customers access to their documents

• Non Lawson specific issues were:• Cost of document storage• Speed of storage and retrieval• No Document tracking / reporting• Legislative data retention issues

Vendor Choice

• Lafarge originally used E-Docs for scanning only, but choose to extend the relationship to a full offering because they:

• Tailor solutions to meet our business processes;• Are competitive on price;• Treat their Customers as individuals;• Are respondent to our needs;• Had a proven track record of meeting the SLA’s;• Provide one stop shop for scanning, storage,

retrieval, postage and packing, integration.

Solution Choice - DocWorks• No off the shelf package met our business needs

• We worked jointly with E-Docs to develop a solution using DocWorks

• DocWorks is used for the following:• Archive and Retrieval:

– Customer invoices & statements;– Proof of Deliveries;– Haulier remittances, statements and invoices.

• Printing Presentation and Packaging Solution;– Customer invoices and statements;– Purchase orders;– WIP to include quotations, and haulier documentation.

• Customer Self Service Centre

• Future expansion to offer a full Supplier invoice capture and query management solution

DocWorks – Home Page Example

DocWorks – Search Example

DocWorks – Search Example

Benefits of DocWorks

• Ease of use for end users – minimal training

• Can be tailored to meet business process needs

• Can be customised to fit your organisations look and feel

• We manage the administration of user and customer access

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