Astounded!
I was looking at a LinkedIn connection this morning and saw a new connection added. It was for a document filing system manufacturer. My first thought, was why they are still in business and are businesses still buying this stuff? Seems they have still willing customers that want to buy their products, Good for them.
I help business reduce their paper and document handling issues, that result in hard dollar savings and reduce the requirement for future expenditures such as filling cabinet hardware!
On this particular manufacturer web site they had a case study and quote from a municipality in my area:
“(name deleted) systems save floor space, are easy to use, and are transportable. If we ever move, the systems can be easily relocated to another building.”
(Name Removed)
Accounts Payable Clerk,
The Corporation of
the Town of Paper World
This is an actual quote! Geez let me see… Imagine that your paper storage needs increase so much that you have to move and you’re willing to pick up and move the paper and the cabinets…that will be a nice expenditure for sure. Was this really part of their value proposition and ROI at the town?
Today there are so many good document management solutions out there that address accounts payable, at very reasonable costs and good return on investment numbers. I cannot believe they bought into this paper manual handling idea. Even sadder, is that our industry could not convince this municipality that a document scanning and management system, aka EDMS, was the way to move forward in the future.
The good news is they are a prospect now and I am sure there’s still more of that thinking out there… that’s why it so exciting to be in this business.
Out to kill the paper today, have a good one!
