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9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO by 15%
How Fortune 1000 companies and SMBs automate credit and
accounts receivable operations to improve productivity and reduce
DSO and past-due A/R.
e – b o o k
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Contents
Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................4
1. Customer Onboarding and Credit Approval Process ......................................................................5
1.1. The Credit Application Process............................................................................................................................. 5
1.2. Top Challenges in the Credit Application Process................................................................................................ 5
1.3. How Leading Organizations Handle Credit Applications...................................................................................... 5
1.4. Online Credit Application Success Story: The adidas Group ................................................................................ 6
2. Eliminating Subjectivity from the Credit Review Process ...............................................................6
2.1. Top Challenges in the Credit Review Process....................................................................................................... 7
2.2. How Top Organizations Handle the Credit Review Process................................................................................. 7
2.3. Credit Management Success Stories: Air Products and TechData....................................................................... 8
3. Improving the Invoicing and Payment Process...............................................................................8
3.1. Top Challenges in the Invoicing and Payments Process....................................................................................... 8
3.2. How Top Organizations Deal with Invoicing and Payments................................................................................. 9
3.3. EIPP Success Stories: Reckitt Benckiser................................................................................................................ 9
4. Doubling Down on Collections by Eliminating Waste from Cash-Application Process..................9
4.1. Top Challenges with The Cash Application Process ........................................................................................... 10
4.2. How Top Organizations Automate Cash Application ......................................................................................... 11
4.3. Cash Application Success Stories: Danone ......................................................................................................... 11
5. Eliminating Waste from the Deductions Process..........................................................................11
5.1. Top Challenges in the Deductions Process......................................................................................................... 12
5.2. How Top Organizations Automate Deductions Operations............................................................................... 12
5.3. Deductions Automation Success Story: Dr Pepper Snapple .............................................................................. 13
6. Deciding Who to Contact on Any Given Day.................................................................................13
6.1. Challenges in Preparing a Collections Worklist .................................................................................................. 13
6.2. Automating Collections Prioritization Process ................................................................................................... 14
7. Collections Correspondence Strategies ........................................................................................14
7.1. Challenges in the Dunning Process..................................................................................................................... 14
7.2. How Top Organizations Automate Collections Correspondence....................................................................... 15
7.3. Collections Success Story : Dr. Pepper Snapple and Yaskawa America Inc........................................................ 15
8. Collaborating with Buyer A/P teams.............................................................................................16
8.1. Top Challenges in A/R-A/P Collaboration........................................................................................................... 16
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8.2. How Top Organizations Facilitate A/R and A/P Collaboration........................................................................... 16
9. Leveraging a Connected Platform for All of Credit-to-Cash..........................................................17
9.1. Top Challeges with Disconnected Credit and A/R Operations........................................................................... 17
9.2. How Leading Organizations Break Silos in Credit and A/R Teams ..................................................................... 18
Summary ...........................................................................................................................................18
About HighRadius..............................................................................................................................19
HighRadius’ Integrated Receivables Platform........................................................................................................... 19
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Executive Summary
CFOs rightly refer to “cash” as the oxygen for business. However, an American Express report reveals that
more than 46% businesses experienced a cash flow crunch in the last year. In an ideal world, A/R = cash,
however, businesses routinely experience bad-debt write-offs and late Payments leading to high DSO.
Finance leaders worldwide have started with defining credit policies and driving teams towards adherence
by incorporating 6-sigma process design and technology. In the process, finance leaders have also succeeded
in shifting resources from tactical activities including cash application to strategic ones by embracing
digitization of invoicing and remittance processes. After fixing the people process and technology bit in-
house, leaders have then focused on improving customer collaboration to process.
This ebook has distilled insights from our study of credit and A/R transformation projects at 300+
organizations on how Fortune 1000 companies and SMBs reduced DSO by 10%-20% through employing 9
strategies. Key Takeaways of this book include:
• Ensuring compliance to credit policy with collections strategies
• Lowering credit risk exposure through proactive credit review process for existing and new customers
• Facilitating ways to improve electronic invoicing and payments adoption and cut costs by 90%
• Eliminating wastage in resource intensive processes including cash application and deductions to refocus on
credit and collections
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1. Customer Onboarding and Credit Approval Process
Customer onboarding is the first and one of the most important steps to reduce DSO. Most organizations ignore this
step and take the word of the sales representatives or the customers to decide on credit limit assignments. Wrongly
estimated credit limits could lead to bad-debt write-offs and high DSO.
1.1. The Credit Application Process
According to a survey by NACM 33% organizations are pressed for time to perform due diligence on prospective
customers. This is because companies typically assign credit limits based on credit agency data, financials, credit
insurance and bank guarantees. All the manual processes including paper based credit applications, gathering data
from third party agencies including D&B and Experian and credit reviews make it increasingly difficult for credit
analysts to find time and onboard new customers.
Figure 1: Current Credit Application Process
1.2. Top Challenges in the Credit Application Process
The top bottlenecks for organizations in the credit application process are:
I. The volume of paper that they need to process and maintain each month
II. Incomplete and inaccurate financial documents that they receive from customers
III. Manual data entry into spreadsheets and ERP systems leading to errors and wastage of time
IV. Downloading credit reports from leading 3rd
party agencies including Experian and D&B
V. Calculating credit scores in excel spreadsheets
VI. Obtaining approvals on emails
1.3. How Leading Organizations Handle Credit Applications
Figure 2: The Online Credit Application Process
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Moving credit application online, integrating it with credit agencies and securing it with digital signature technology
helps in eliminating manual work and incomplete documentation. It replaces a paper intensive credit management
process with an electronic one to enable better credit portfolio and risk management and to quickly onboard new
customers. Credit score and credit limits are calculated automatically while workflows are assigned to relevant credit
managers to review and approve the assigned credit limits.
Figure 3: Credit Review and Customer Onboarding Process
Assigning the right credit limit to the customers helps firms to collect the payment on time thus, reducing DSO.
1.4. Online Credit Application Success Story: The adidas Group
The adidas group has about 10 different types of credit application formats which are filled by customers for requesting
lines of credit from its various business divisions across geographies. In what was a very manual paper-based process,
the credit team at the adidas Group took more than four days to process a single credit application. In essence, what
this meant was that the credit team was mostly focused on tactical activities while trying to get a complete credit
application rather than spending it strategically on the credit review process.
The adidas group started deploying credit applications one by one at each of their business units. After deploying the
HighRadius online credit application, the team was able to bring the new customer onboarding time to less than 2 days
with more than 90% credit applications received with complete data, right on the first attempt. The end result was that
the team was able to review more credit applications per given while using accurate data to reduce the credit risk
exposure and alleviate the risk of high DSO due to wrongly estimated credit limits.
2. Eliminating Subjectivity from the Credit Review Process
In the previous section, we discussed how inappropriate assignment of credit limits to new customers could lead to
higher bad-debt and DSO. This section is about problems associated with the credit review process for existing
customers.
Credit analysts are assigned hundreds to thousands of accounts for reviewing credit limits, onboarding new customers
and unblocking blocked orders. Since, reducing credit risk exposure is a responsibility of the credit team, credit review
processes need to be air tight. However, the sheer volume of accounts makes it impossible for credit teams to
successfully cover all accounts which are due for periodic reviews. Constantly chasing the backlog of accounts means
that credit analysts are often unable to focus on conducting a focused and accurate credit analysis.
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2.1. Top Challenges in the Credit Review Process
Only after an objective analysis can a credit manager make an informed decision about extending credit [or continuing
the existing credit] to the customer. While inconsistency in periodically reviewing existing customer credit lines is an
issue, asynchronous events such as financial results, rating downgrades and M&A activity could also be responsible for
escalating credit risk. Figure 4 illustrates challenges related to both asynchronous events and internal SLA
requirements that create a need for credit analysts to manually prioritize accounts for credit review.
Figure 4: Challenges with a Manual Credit Analyst Driven Process
2.2. How Top Organizations Handle the Credit Review Process
The first step that organizations undertake to remove the subjectivity out of the process, is to make sure that all the credit
workflows reside within a system. The system generates a worklist for credit analysts for any given day and consists of:
I. New customer onboarding requests
II. Periodic credit reviews
III. Blocked order release requests
IV. Alerts from external agencies on bankruptcies and rating downgrades
V. Expiry alerts on internal collateral including bank guarantees, mortgages and credit insurance
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Figure 5: Process and System Driven Credit Operations
Figure 5 illustrates how the system automates the above workflows and assigns them to the respected credit analyst
or manager and allows them to scale operations to thousands of accounts.
2.3. Credit Management Success Stories: Air Products and TechData
Air Products and Chemicals is a Pennsylvania-based global leader for industrial gas and chemicals. The credit team had
to deal with a fair amount of wastage in the credit operations - getting approvals on credit limits with credit managers
on emails, downloading credit agency data for a large portfolio of customers and was challenged with compliance and
inaccurate credit data. The team faced an uphill task of controlling credit risk exposure in the absence of the right tools.
Today, the team uses a single solution to employ a global credit policy and automated credit review process for 320,000
customers worldwide.
Tech Data Corporation, currently ranked #108 in Fortune 500, is one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of
technology products. The credit team at Tech Data dealt with legacy systems and manual processes for credit reviews.
Given a large portfolio of customers worldwide, the team had to daily log in to multiple portals for each geography to
fetch data from credit agencies.
The team automated credit data aggregation and workflows to achieve productivity boost of 120% in the credit review
process and also saved $160,000 annually through improved efficiencies.
3. Improving the Invoicing and Payment Process
Studies have said that companies are able to reduce DSO by 3-10 days with electronic invoicing. By adopting electronic
invoicing credit departments are able to reduce the dependence on print and mail for timely delivery of invoices while
also reducing costs in the process.
3.1. Top Challenges in the Invoicing and Payments Process
The top challenges associated with paper based invoicing process are listed below:
• Paper based processes for invoicing that causes delays in sending and receiving
• Inability to track delivery
• High cost
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• Non-standardized customer experience
The top challenges associated with accepting electronic payments are:
• Expensive procedures for complying with PCI-DSS guidelines
• Lot of work for internal teams to apply cash as remittance comes in from a variety of sources including EDI,
website and email
• Expensive to accept credit card payments because of the transaction costs
• Disconnected invoicing and payments systems that cause repetitive work for collections analysts to retrieve
invoices and accept payments
3.2. How Top Organizations Deal with Invoicing and Payments
Creating a self-service portal for both invoicing and payments is the first step. This removes the wastage in the
collections process where roughly 20% of collector’s time is wasted in re-sending invoices to customers. This is
enabled with a centralized online repository of invoices which can be accessed anytime by customers.
Top features that organizations leverage in these portals are:
I. Self-service portal where customers can retrieve their invoices
II. Ability to make payments through multiple options including ACH and credit cards
III. PCI-DSS compliance for accepting credit-card payments by enabling processor tokenization
IV. Lower card payment acceptance costs by leveraging Level III Interchange fees
V. Tight linking into the A/R module to enable customers to create deductions right from the EIPP portal
VI. Ability to send/receive invoices on fax
VII. Automated print and mail service to customers who still demand for paper based invoices
3.3. EIPP Success Stories: Reckitt Benckiser
Reckitt Benckiser(RB) the leading consumer goods manufacturer had an expensive paper based process for invoicing
as SMBs depended on paper based invoices while large customers were already using EDI for invoicing. By moving to
an EIPP portal, RB was able to provide SMBs with lower cost e-invoicing options including e-mail and portal-hosted
invoices to reduce the electronic invoicing cost by 98%.
Yaskawa America Inc, the American manufacturer of HVAC products saved $12,000 on credit card payments with a
PCI-DSS compliant credit card processing solution by leveraging level III data in the ERP for maintenance and repair
orders.
4. Doubling Down on Collections by Eliminating Waste from
Cash-Application Process
Cash application is one of the more resource intensive processes in accounts receivable and organizations are better
off in automating cash application and shifting resources to higher value activities including collections and credit. The
other disadvantage of a slow cash application process is that it is an upstream process that further slows down
deductions and collections process. As an example, if a customer had already paid for an invoice but the status is not
updated as closed in the ERP, collections analyst will waste time by calling a customer who had already paid.
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4.1. Top Challenges with The Cash Application Process
Organizations today receive payments through checks as well as electronic formats including ACH, real-time payments,
and credit cards. Reconciling cash for checks and e-payments pose different challenges.
Figure 6: Challenges with Processing Check Payments
For checks, A/R teams typically receive a bank lockbox file that contains the payment details, however, ERP systems
need reconfiguration to be able to read the lockbox file and apply payments. This is a recurring problem whenever
organizations either add a new lockbox service or switch banks. Also, lockbox services tend to be quite expensive to
maintain as banks also charge significant key-in fees for capturing remittance data. Nevertheless, this keyed-in data is
usually insufficient for successfully posting the payments. The cash application analysts still have to resolve exceptions
due to incomplete remittance data or code the deductions while identifying short payments. All these steps have been
illustrated in figure 6.
Figure 7: Challenges with Cash Application for e-Payments
Coming to electronic payments, while there is significant adoption of various formats, the cash application team is
burdened with the cash reconciliation process as the remittance details are sent separately either through email, EDI
or customer portals and websites.
Though the payment itself is electronic and fast, processing the payments is highly manual and time-consuming. The
analysts collect remittance from different sources, associate them with incoming payments, link them to
corresponding open invoices, check for short payments and discounts and then post the cash in ERP which takes a
huge amount of time and effort. All of these steps have been illustrated in the above figure.
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4.2. How Top Organizations Automate Cash Application
As the challenges have highlighted, cost and resource wastage are problems that have to be addressed on the cash
application front.
Figure 8: Automated Cash Application Process
By leveraging machine learning, organizations are able to automatically aggregate remittances, reconcile cash and
identify deductions. Figure 8 talks about how each of the steps – aggregating remittance documents, coding
deductions and applying cash could be automated using an AI based cash application system.
4.3. Cash Application Success Stories: Danone
Danone North America had four FTEs for cash application and with many North American businesses, they
had both electronic and check payments that impacted their cash application process.
After leveraging an artificial intelligence powered cash application automation solution, Danone was able to
reduce the cash application team from 4 members to 1 and deployed the remaining members to other A/R
functions.
5. Eliminating Waste from the Deductions Process
According to the study by Attain Consulting Group, about 90% of deductions are valid and about 60%-80% of the valid
deductions are related to trade promotions. Irrespective of whether the deductions are valid or invalid, analysts spend
the same amount of time in resolving deductions.
There’s still enough value in weeding out invalid deductions and add dollars back to the bottom-line. Automating
deductions identification and research is yet another low hanging fruit to refocus resources from deductions
operations to higher value operations including credit and collections.
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5.1. Top Challenges in the Deductions Process
Figure 9: Organizations Missing Out on Identifying Deductions at Source
The first challenge is identifying that there is a deduction. Most times, deductions could be directly identified at cash
application but given the resource intensive process and the volume of payments, this doesn’t get done. There is a
second related issue of errors in entering the right deduction code into spreadsheets or ERPs because of manual work.
Figure 10: Manual Steps in Resolving Deductions
As the above figure suggests, right from identifying deductions and taking action, there are a lot of manual steps. One
of the biggest challenges is working on diverse systems for claims download, trade promotions data and deductions to
take action.
5.2. How Top Organizations Automate Deductions Operations
Deductions analysts spend equal amount of time in validating both valid and invalid deductions so a lot of wastage
could be eliminated by automating the deductions process to eliminate all the valid deductions from an A/R analyst’s
worklist.
Figure 11: Two Steps to Automate the Deductions Process
Automating the deductions back up aggregation for claims and proof of delivery and attaching these to open
deductions could significantly reduce the time take in backup retrievel and research. After leveraging the data
aggregation bit, integrating the ERP with trade promotions system and empowering the analyst with AI based
algorithms to search for patterns in valid deductions will further help the analyst focus only on the invalid deductions.
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To be safe from invalid deductions an organization needs to perform a root-cause analysis and lower the allowance for
doubtful accounts by using analytics to isolate the cause of recurring disputes. Faster deduction resolution results in
faster collections, thereby lowering DSO.
5.3. Deductions Automation Success Story: Dr Pepper Snapple
Dr Pepper Snapple, the beverage manufacturer had a high volume of deductions before leveraging automation. By
leveraging automation to reduce deductions workload and focus on root cause analysis, Dr Pepper Snapple was able
to recover an additional $1.4 Million in invalid deductions and also reduced the volume of deductions by 13%.
6. Deciding Who to Contact on Any Given Day
On any given day, collections analysts spend up to 30% deciding on who to contact. Study states that 30% of
Collections analyst’s time is spent in prioritizing and preparing for calls.
Collections analysts would rather get down to calling customers as soon as they start their day rather than waste time
in preparing a list of who to contact. The lack of a collections worklist could lead to unnecessary dunning and wasted
calls.
6.1. Challenges in Preparing a Collections Worklist
Most companies assign hundreds to thousands of accounts per collections analyst depending on the size of the
company.
Figure 12: 16 Variables that Impact Collections
Figure 12 lists some of the most common attributes including dunning data, credit risk and number of promise to pays
that affect whether a collections analyst should contact a customer on any given day. It is impractical for the
collections analyst to take into account so many variables and most often they only look at invoice due date and
invoice amount and many of these calls go waste.
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6.2. Automating Collections Prioritization Process
Most organizations already have a strong set of credit policies in place but the execution of these credit policies is
mostly left to the team. Ideally, all the credit policies should be within the system and the system should be able to
suggest who to collect from.
Figure 13: An Illustration Showing How to Assign Scores and Decide on Collections Prioritization
As the figure above shows, credit policies are used to assign scores for each rule the customer account/invoice
satisfies and then an overall score is assigned. As an example, a credit policy could be enforced where any account
whose cumulative valuation is more than 150 should be contacted on that day.
The prioritized worklist helps collectors to contact more accounts and centrally track the activity for review and follow-
up. The result is a more efficient collections team that contributes to enhanced cash flow and reduced DSO.
7. Collections Correspondence Strategies
A study by McKinsey found that 70% of collections calls go to customers who would have paid anyway. This is yet
another place to optimize the process to increase efficiency of customer contact and improve DSO.
7.1. Challenges in the Dunning Process
Figure 14: The Biggest Challenge with the Collections Process – Too Many Assigned Accounts
The biggest challenge continues to be the account coverage and given the limitation in the number of collections calls
that could be made on any given day. Agents are assigned too many accounts at a time and the preferred medium of
communication is phone with very limited time spent on other mediums including email and physical letters.
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Collections analysts focus on invoice value and aging data and make calls while ignoring a large number of assigned
accounts, there are always accounts from the SMBs that make up to 80% of the collections worklist but fall through
the cracks since analysts tend to focus on high invoice value accounts. It is also impractical for collections analysts to
call these customers for small amounts.
7.2. How Top Organizations Automate Collections Correspondence
Figure 15: Automating Correspondence to Let Collectors Focus on Calling Only the Most Critical Accounts
As the figure 15 illustrates, systems have to be designed so that the collections analysts call only the most critical
accounts. This automation is an extension of the previous section where we talked about how to let the system handle
credit policies and score customers on the risk that they pose for the organization.
Based on each account score, the system will be able to tell the analyst what the next step should be. For example, if
habitual late payers belong to a customer segment, the system should suggest that collections analyst to send out
email correspondence 15 days before the invoice is past-due. The system should also have ready-made email
templates so that the analyst is able to send mass correspondence to all the customers in that segment with the click
of a button. Taking correspondence automation further, the system should be able to automatically send proactive
reminders for all accounts depending on the credit policies.
While email correspondence automation takes care of account coverage and brings the money to the bank through
proactive reminders, collections analysts continue focusing on high priority large accounts. This optimizes the
collection process thereby reducing DSO.
7.3. Collections Success Story : Dr. Pepper Snapple and Yaskawa America Inc.
Yaskawa America, the leading manufacturer of HVAC equipment adopted automated prioritization of worklists and
was able to contact more customers. The process improved overall to help Yaskawa in reducing DSO by 5.5 days and
achieve a Collections Effectiveness Index of 90%.
Similarly, Dr Pepper Snapple, the beverages major was able to improve collector productivity by 40% by adopting
collections correspondence automation and reduce the number of accounts in a collection’s analyst’s worklist by 88%.
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8. Collaborating with Buyer A/P teams
One of the biggest challenges in credit-to-cash cycle is supplier-buyer collaboration for processes across credit, billing,
collections, payment processing and dispute resolution. Since teams collaborate manually over email, it proves to be a
huge challenge to maintain a system of record especially on past communication and patterns in problems.
8.1. Top Challenges in A/R-A/P Collaboration
A/R and A/P collaboration is very important right from credit application process where the credit terms are set to the
collections process where the A/P team pays the dues and reaches a settlement on deductions.
Figure 16: Manual Process in The Invoice to Cash Process
Figure 16 outlines, the number of manual steps from the invoicing process to the payment process. An error in even
one of the steps will result in a late payment and increase in DSO.
8.2. How Top Organizations Facilitate A/R and A/P Collaboration
Figure 17: Enabling Digital Collaboration Between Buyers and Suppliers
As the figure 17 outlines, establishing a digital collaboration portal between buyers and suppliers is the first step that
organizations have undertaken. The platform is able to link the supplier ERP with the buyer ERP so that with a single
click the supplier is able to post invoices directly into the buyer’s ERP.
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Figure 18: Condensing a 10 step process to a 2 step process by leveraging a buyer supplier network
Figure 18 outlines what the new process will be. A billing analyst generates an invoice for a product/service and posts
it on to the network which in turn posts it directly on to the ERP of the buyer. This results in faster invoice delivery,
seamless payment from the accounting system and straight through cash posting as the payment happens through the
portal.
9. Leveraging a Connected Platform for All of Credit-to-Cash
As the previous sections show, there could be significant gains from optimizing each of the individual
processes in the credit-to-cash cycle. However, credit and accounts receivable teams could unlock gains in
multiples if they start breaking departmental silos and work as an engine.
9.1. Top Challeges with Disconnected Credit and A/R Operations
Starting with the credit team, blocked orders directly affect the top-line of any company. Since the credit
and collections teams work in silos, accounts that near credit utilization might get missed out by collections
and the new orders get blocked. Sometimes, the case is only that the customer didn’t remember about the
existing credit limit.
Similarly, lack of clarity on deductions means that collections teams either call customers with open
deductions and get nowhere or ignore resolved deductions and ignore low hanging fruits for collections.
Figure 19: Blocked Order Process
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The figure above outlines all the different people who need to coordinate together to resolve a blocked
order. The end result is that blocked order process is always a reactive process and along with delaying
revenue realization, it also is responsible for compliance problems in credit policies.
9.2. How Leading Organizations Break Silos in Credit and A/R Teams
Figure 20: A Streamlined Blocked Order Process Supported by Integrated Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Leading organizations are strengthening process collaboration by leveraging integrated technology. To
elaborate, systems are able to read patterns based on past sales orders and triggering a workflow for
potential blocked orders to either send automated correspondence or for the credit analyst to notify the
customer about delivery blocks. The customer is then able to directly view the invoice in a buyer-supplier
collaboration portal and pay through the same. The credit limit is then automatically freed and orders don’t
get blocked.
Summary
To summarize, all of these strategies fall into the following three buckets:
I. Fixing the root cause of High DSO: High DSO could either be because the customer in question is not
worthy of such credit or simply because the customer was not contacted on time. Addressing
customer onboarding and credit review process will take care of the former and addressing the
collections bottlenecks will take care of the latter.
II. Eliminating Wastage in A/R Operations: Sometimes, even after all the optimizations within
collections, organizations don’t have enough resources for collections. Addressing wastage in
resource intensive processes including cash application and deductions will give organizations
enough leeway to increase FTEs working on collections while flatlining the A/R team head count as a
whole.
III. Breaking Silos in Operations and Facilitating Collaboration: Collections as a process involves
communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Addressing how information flows within the
A/R team for example from cash application team to the collections team and collaboration between
buyers and suppliers will further unlock opportunities to reduce DSO and improve accounts
receivable turnover.
As the success stories show, organizations of all size right from Fortune 1000 companies including Dr Pepper
Snapple and Danone and SMBs including Marketo and ShurTech brands have been able to deploy these 9
strategies and reduce DSO by 10%-20%.
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About HighRadius
HighRadius is a Fintech enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. The HighRadius™ Integrated
Receivables platform optimizes cash flow through automation of receivables and payments processes across
credit, collections, cash application, deductions, electronic billing and payment processing.
Powered by Rivana™ Artificial Intelligence Engine and Freda™ Virtual Assistant for Credit-to-Cash,
HighRadius Integrated Receivables enables teams to leverage machine learning for accurate decision making
and future outcomes. The radiusOne™ B2B payment network allows suppliers to digitally connect with
buyers, closing the loop from supplier receivable processes to buyer payable processes.
HighRadius solutions have a proven track record of optimizing cash flow, reducing days sales outstanding
(DSO) and bad debt, and increasing operational efficiency so that companies may achieve strong ROI in just a
few months. To learn more, please visit https://www.highradius.com/.
HighRadius’ Integrated Receivables Platform
Integrated Receivables is a solution to optimize accounts receivable operations by integrating all receivable and
payment modules to work as a unified business process. At the core of the Integrated Receivables platform are
solutions for credit, collections, deductions, cash application, electronic billing and payment processing –
covering the entire gamut from credit-to-cash. The HighRadiusTM Integrated Receivables platform is a stand-out
as it enables every credit and A/R operation to execute real-time from a unified platform with an end goal of
lower DSO, reduced bad-debt, faster dispute resolution and improved efficiency, accuracy for cash application,
billing and payment processing.
HighRadiusTM Integrated Receivables leverages RivanaTM Artificial Intelligence for Accounts Receivable to convert
receivables faster and more effectively using machine learning for accurate decision making across credit and
receivable processes. The Integrated Receivables platform also enables suppliers to digitally connect with buyers
via the radiusOneTM network, closing the loop from the supplier A/R process to the buyer A/P process.
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Reduce DSO by 15 percent

  • 1. 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO by 15% How Fortune 1000 companies and SMBs automate credit and accounts receivable operations to improve productivity and reduce DSO and past-due A/R. e – b o o k
  • 2. 2 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Contents Executive Summary.............................................................................................................................4 1. Customer Onboarding and Credit Approval Process ......................................................................5 1.1. The Credit Application Process............................................................................................................................. 5 1.2. Top Challenges in the Credit Application Process................................................................................................ 5 1.3. How Leading Organizations Handle Credit Applications...................................................................................... 5 1.4. Online Credit Application Success Story: The adidas Group ................................................................................ 6 2. Eliminating Subjectivity from the Credit Review Process ...............................................................6 2.1. Top Challenges in the Credit Review Process....................................................................................................... 7 2.2. How Top Organizations Handle the Credit Review Process................................................................................. 7 2.3. Credit Management Success Stories: Air Products and TechData....................................................................... 8 3. Improving the Invoicing and Payment Process...............................................................................8 3.1. Top Challenges in the Invoicing and Payments Process....................................................................................... 8 3.2. How Top Organizations Deal with Invoicing and Payments................................................................................. 9 3.3. EIPP Success Stories: Reckitt Benckiser................................................................................................................ 9 4. Doubling Down on Collections by Eliminating Waste from Cash-Application Process..................9 4.1. Top Challenges with The Cash Application Process ........................................................................................... 10 4.2. How Top Organizations Automate Cash Application ......................................................................................... 11 4.3. Cash Application Success Stories: Danone ......................................................................................................... 11 5. Eliminating Waste from the Deductions Process..........................................................................11 5.1. Top Challenges in the Deductions Process......................................................................................................... 12 5.2. How Top Organizations Automate Deductions Operations............................................................................... 12 5.3. Deductions Automation Success Story: Dr Pepper Snapple .............................................................................. 13 6. Deciding Who to Contact on Any Given Day.................................................................................13 6.1. Challenges in Preparing a Collections Worklist .................................................................................................. 13 6.2. Automating Collections Prioritization Process ................................................................................................... 14 7. Collections Correspondence Strategies ........................................................................................14 7.1. Challenges in the Dunning Process..................................................................................................................... 14 7.2. How Top Organizations Automate Collections Correspondence....................................................................... 15 7.3. Collections Success Story : Dr. Pepper Snapple and Yaskawa America Inc........................................................ 15 8. Collaborating with Buyer A/P teams.............................................................................................16 8.1. Top Challenges in A/R-A/P Collaboration........................................................................................................... 16
  • 3. 3 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 8.2. How Top Organizations Facilitate A/R and A/P Collaboration........................................................................... 16 9. Leveraging a Connected Platform for All of Credit-to-Cash..........................................................17 9.1. Top Challeges with Disconnected Credit and A/R Operations........................................................................... 17 9.2. How Leading Organizations Break Silos in Credit and A/R Teams ..................................................................... 18 Summary ...........................................................................................................................................18 About HighRadius..............................................................................................................................19 HighRadius’ Integrated Receivables Platform........................................................................................................... 19
  • 4. 4 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Executive Summary CFOs rightly refer to “cash” as the oxygen for business. However, an American Express report reveals that more than 46% businesses experienced a cash flow crunch in the last year. In an ideal world, A/R = cash, however, businesses routinely experience bad-debt write-offs and late Payments leading to high DSO. Finance leaders worldwide have started with defining credit policies and driving teams towards adherence by incorporating 6-sigma process design and technology. In the process, finance leaders have also succeeded in shifting resources from tactical activities including cash application to strategic ones by embracing digitization of invoicing and remittance processes. After fixing the people process and technology bit in- house, leaders have then focused on improving customer collaboration to process. This ebook has distilled insights from our study of credit and A/R transformation projects at 300+ organizations on how Fortune 1000 companies and SMBs reduced DSO by 10%-20% through employing 9 strategies. Key Takeaways of this book include: • Ensuring compliance to credit policy with collections strategies • Lowering credit risk exposure through proactive credit review process for existing and new customers • Facilitating ways to improve electronic invoicing and payments adoption and cut costs by 90% • Eliminating wastage in resource intensive processes including cash application and deductions to refocus on credit and collections
  • 5. 5 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 1. Customer Onboarding and Credit Approval Process Customer onboarding is the first and one of the most important steps to reduce DSO. Most organizations ignore this step and take the word of the sales representatives or the customers to decide on credit limit assignments. Wrongly estimated credit limits could lead to bad-debt write-offs and high DSO. 1.1. The Credit Application Process According to a survey by NACM 33% organizations are pressed for time to perform due diligence on prospective customers. This is because companies typically assign credit limits based on credit agency data, financials, credit insurance and bank guarantees. All the manual processes including paper based credit applications, gathering data from third party agencies including D&B and Experian and credit reviews make it increasingly difficult for credit analysts to find time and onboard new customers. Figure 1: Current Credit Application Process 1.2. Top Challenges in the Credit Application Process The top bottlenecks for organizations in the credit application process are: I. The volume of paper that they need to process and maintain each month II. Incomplete and inaccurate financial documents that they receive from customers III. Manual data entry into spreadsheets and ERP systems leading to errors and wastage of time IV. Downloading credit reports from leading 3rd party agencies including Experian and D&B V. Calculating credit scores in excel spreadsheets VI. Obtaining approvals on emails 1.3. How Leading Organizations Handle Credit Applications Figure 2: The Online Credit Application Process
  • 6. 6 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Moving credit application online, integrating it with credit agencies and securing it with digital signature technology helps in eliminating manual work and incomplete documentation. It replaces a paper intensive credit management process with an electronic one to enable better credit portfolio and risk management and to quickly onboard new customers. Credit score and credit limits are calculated automatically while workflows are assigned to relevant credit managers to review and approve the assigned credit limits. Figure 3: Credit Review and Customer Onboarding Process Assigning the right credit limit to the customers helps firms to collect the payment on time thus, reducing DSO. 1.4. Online Credit Application Success Story: The adidas Group The adidas group has about 10 different types of credit application formats which are filled by customers for requesting lines of credit from its various business divisions across geographies. In what was a very manual paper-based process, the credit team at the adidas Group took more than four days to process a single credit application. In essence, what this meant was that the credit team was mostly focused on tactical activities while trying to get a complete credit application rather than spending it strategically on the credit review process. The adidas group started deploying credit applications one by one at each of their business units. After deploying the HighRadius online credit application, the team was able to bring the new customer onboarding time to less than 2 days with more than 90% credit applications received with complete data, right on the first attempt. The end result was that the team was able to review more credit applications per given while using accurate data to reduce the credit risk exposure and alleviate the risk of high DSO due to wrongly estimated credit limits. 2. Eliminating Subjectivity from the Credit Review Process In the previous section, we discussed how inappropriate assignment of credit limits to new customers could lead to higher bad-debt and DSO. This section is about problems associated with the credit review process for existing customers. Credit analysts are assigned hundreds to thousands of accounts for reviewing credit limits, onboarding new customers and unblocking blocked orders. Since, reducing credit risk exposure is a responsibility of the credit team, credit review processes need to be air tight. However, the sheer volume of accounts makes it impossible for credit teams to successfully cover all accounts which are due for periodic reviews. Constantly chasing the backlog of accounts means that credit analysts are often unable to focus on conducting a focused and accurate credit analysis.
  • 7. 7 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 2.1. Top Challenges in the Credit Review Process Only after an objective analysis can a credit manager make an informed decision about extending credit [or continuing the existing credit] to the customer. While inconsistency in periodically reviewing existing customer credit lines is an issue, asynchronous events such as financial results, rating downgrades and M&A activity could also be responsible for escalating credit risk. Figure 4 illustrates challenges related to both asynchronous events and internal SLA requirements that create a need for credit analysts to manually prioritize accounts for credit review. Figure 4: Challenges with a Manual Credit Analyst Driven Process 2.2. How Top Organizations Handle the Credit Review Process The first step that organizations undertake to remove the subjectivity out of the process, is to make sure that all the credit workflows reside within a system. The system generates a worklist for credit analysts for any given day and consists of: I. New customer onboarding requests II. Periodic credit reviews III. Blocked order release requests IV. Alerts from external agencies on bankruptcies and rating downgrades V. Expiry alerts on internal collateral including bank guarantees, mortgages and credit insurance
  • 8. 8 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Figure 5: Process and System Driven Credit Operations Figure 5 illustrates how the system automates the above workflows and assigns them to the respected credit analyst or manager and allows them to scale operations to thousands of accounts. 2.3. Credit Management Success Stories: Air Products and TechData Air Products and Chemicals is a Pennsylvania-based global leader for industrial gas and chemicals. The credit team had to deal with a fair amount of wastage in the credit operations - getting approvals on credit limits with credit managers on emails, downloading credit agency data for a large portfolio of customers and was challenged with compliance and inaccurate credit data. The team faced an uphill task of controlling credit risk exposure in the absence of the right tools. Today, the team uses a single solution to employ a global credit policy and automated credit review process for 320,000 customers worldwide. Tech Data Corporation, currently ranked #108 in Fortune 500, is one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of technology products. The credit team at Tech Data dealt with legacy systems and manual processes for credit reviews. Given a large portfolio of customers worldwide, the team had to daily log in to multiple portals for each geography to fetch data from credit agencies. The team automated credit data aggregation and workflows to achieve productivity boost of 120% in the credit review process and also saved $160,000 annually through improved efficiencies. 3. Improving the Invoicing and Payment Process Studies have said that companies are able to reduce DSO by 3-10 days with electronic invoicing. By adopting electronic invoicing credit departments are able to reduce the dependence on print and mail for timely delivery of invoices while also reducing costs in the process. 3.1. Top Challenges in the Invoicing and Payments Process The top challenges associated with paper based invoicing process are listed below: • Paper based processes for invoicing that causes delays in sending and receiving • Inability to track delivery • High cost
  • 9. 9 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation • Non-standardized customer experience The top challenges associated with accepting electronic payments are: • Expensive procedures for complying with PCI-DSS guidelines • Lot of work for internal teams to apply cash as remittance comes in from a variety of sources including EDI, website and email • Expensive to accept credit card payments because of the transaction costs • Disconnected invoicing and payments systems that cause repetitive work for collections analysts to retrieve invoices and accept payments 3.2. How Top Organizations Deal with Invoicing and Payments Creating a self-service portal for both invoicing and payments is the first step. This removes the wastage in the collections process where roughly 20% of collector’s time is wasted in re-sending invoices to customers. This is enabled with a centralized online repository of invoices which can be accessed anytime by customers. Top features that organizations leverage in these portals are: I. Self-service portal where customers can retrieve their invoices II. Ability to make payments through multiple options including ACH and credit cards III. PCI-DSS compliance for accepting credit-card payments by enabling processor tokenization IV. Lower card payment acceptance costs by leveraging Level III Interchange fees V. Tight linking into the A/R module to enable customers to create deductions right from the EIPP portal VI. Ability to send/receive invoices on fax VII. Automated print and mail service to customers who still demand for paper based invoices 3.3. EIPP Success Stories: Reckitt Benckiser Reckitt Benckiser(RB) the leading consumer goods manufacturer had an expensive paper based process for invoicing as SMBs depended on paper based invoices while large customers were already using EDI for invoicing. By moving to an EIPP portal, RB was able to provide SMBs with lower cost e-invoicing options including e-mail and portal-hosted invoices to reduce the electronic invoicing cost by 98%. Yaskawa America Inc, the American manufacturer of HVAC products saved $12,000 on credit card payments with a PCI-DSS compliant credit card processing solution by leveraging level III data in the ERP for maintenance and repair orders. 4. Doubling Down on Collections by Eliminating Waste from Cash-Application Process Cash application is one of the more resource intensive processes in accounts receivable and organizations are better off in automating cash application and shifting resources to higher value activities including collections and credit. The other disadvantage of a slow cash application process is that it is an upstream process that further slows down deductions and collections process. As an example, if a customer had already paid for an invoice but the status is not updated as closed in the ERP, collections analyst will waste time by calling a customer who had already paid.
  • 10. 10 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 4.1. Top Challenges with The Cash Application Process Organizations today receive payments through checks as well as electronic formats including ACH, real-time payments, and credit cards. Reconciling cash for checks and e-payments pose different challenges. Figure 6: Challenges with Processing Check Payments For checks, A/R teams typically receive a bank lockbox file that contains the payment details, however, ERP systems need reconfiguration to be able to read the lockbox file and apply payments. This is a recurring problem whenever organizations either add a new lockbox service or switch banks. Also, lockbox services tend to be quite expensive to maintain as banks also charge significant key-in fees for capturing remittance data. Nevertheless, this keyed-in data is usually insufficient for successfully posting the payments. The cash application analysts still have to resolve exceptions due to incomplete remittance data or code the deductions while identifying short payments. All these steps have been illustrated in figure 6. Figure 7: Challenges with Cash Application for e-Payments Coming to electronic payments, while there is significant adoption of various formats, the cash application team is burdened with the cash reconciliation process as the remittance details are sent separately either through email, EDI or customer portals and websites. Though the payment itself is electronic and fast, processing the payments is highly manual and time-consuming. The analysts collect remittance from different sources, associate them with incoming payments, link them to corresponding open invoices, check for short payments and discounts and then post the cash in ERP which takes a huge amount of time and effort. All of these steps have been illustrated in the above figure.
  • 11. 11 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 4.2. How Top Organizations Automate Cash Application As the challenges have highlighted, cost and resource wastage are problems that have to be addressed on the cash application front. Figure 8: Automated Cash Application Process By leveraging machine learning, organizations are able to automatically aggregate remittances, reconcile cash and identify deductions. Figure 8 talks about how each of the steps – aggregating remittance documents, coding deductions and applying cash could be automated using an AI based cash application system. 4.3. Cash Application Success Stories: Danone Danone North America had four FTEs for cash application and with many North American businesses, they had both electronic and check payments that impacted their cash application process. After leveraging an artificial intelligence powered cash application automation solution, Danone was able to reduce the cash application team from 4 members to 1 and deployed the remaining members to other A/R functions. 5. Eliminating Waste from the Deductions Process According to the study by Attain Consulting Group, about 90% of deductions are valid and about 60%-80% of the valid deductions are related to trade promotions. Irrespective of whether the deductions are valid or invalid, analysts spend the same amount of time in resolving deductions. There’s still enough value in weeding out invalid deductions and add dollars back to the bottom-line. Automating deductions identification and research is yet another low hanging fruit to refocus resources from deductions operations to higher value operations including credit and collections.
  • 12. 12 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 5.1. Top Challenges in the Deductions Process Figure 9: Organizations Missing Out on Identifying Deductions at Source The first challenge is identifying that there is a deduction. Most times, deductions could be directly identified at cash application but given the resource intensive process and the volume of payments, this doesn’t get done. There is a second related issue of errors in entering the right deduction code into spreadsheets or ERPs because of manual work. Figure 10: Manual Steps in Resolving Deductions As the above figure suggests, right from identifying deductions and taking action, there are a lot of manual steps. One of the biggest challenges is working on diverse systems for claims download, trade promotions data and deductions to take action. 5.2. How Top Organizations Automate Deductions Operations Deductions analysts spend equal amount of time in validating both valid and invalid deductions so a lot of wastage could be eliminated by automating the deductions process to eliminate all the valid deductions from an A/R analyst’s worklist. Figure 11: Two Steps to Automate the Deductions Process Automating the deductions back up aggregation for claims and proof of delivery and attaching these to open deductions could significantly reduce the time take in backup retrievel and research. After leveraging the data aggregation bit, integrating the ERP with trade promotions system and empowering the analyst with AI based algorithms to search for patterns in valid deductions will further help the analyst focus only on the invalid deductions.
  • 13. 13 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation To be safe from invalid deductions an organization needs to perform a root-cause analysis and lower the allowance for doubtful accounts by using analytics to isolate the cause of recurring disputes. Faster deduction resolution results in faster collections, thereby lowering DSO. 5.3. Deductions Automation Success Story: Dr Pepper Snapple Dr Pepper Snapple, the beverage manufacturer had a high volume of deductions before leveraging automation. By leveraging automation to reduce deductions workload and focus on root cause analysis, Dr Pepper Snapple was able to recover an additional $1.4 Million in invalid deductions and also reduced the volume of deductions by 13%. 6. Deciding Who to Contact on Any Given Day On any given day, collections analysts spend up to 30% deciding on who to contact. Study states that 30% of Collections analyst’s time is spent in prioritizing and preparing for calls. Collections analysts would rather get down to calling customers as soon as they start their day rather than waste time in preparing a list of who to contact. The lack of a collections worklist could lead to unnecessary dunning and wasted calls. 6.1. Challenges in Preparing a Collections Worklist Most companies assign hundreds to thousands of accounts per collections analyst depending on the size of the company. Figure 12: 16 Variables that Impact Collections Figure 12 lists some of the most common attributes including dunning data, credit risk and number of promise to pays that affect whether a collections analyst should contact a customer on any given day. It is impractical for the collections analyst to take into account so many variables and most often they only look at invoice due date and invoice amount and many of these calls go waste.
  • 14. 14 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 6.2. Automating Collections Prioritization Process Most organizations already have a strong set of credit policies in place but the execution of these credit policies is mostly left to the team. Ideally, all the credit policies should be within the system and the system should be able to suggest who to collect from. Figure 13: An Illustration Showing How to Assign Scores and Decide on Collections Prioritization As the figure above shows, credit policies are used to assign scores for each rule the customer account/invoice satisfies and then an overall score is assigned. As an example, a credit policy could be enforced where any account whose cumulative valuation is more than 150 should be contacted on that day. The prioritized worklist helps collectors to contact more accounts and centrally track the activity for review and follow- up. The result is a more efficient collections team that contributes to enhanced cash flow and reduced DSO. 7. Collections Correspondence Strategies A study by McKinsey found that 70% of collections calls go to customers who would have paid anyway. This is yet another place to optimize the process to increase efficiency of customer contact and improve DSO. 7.1. Challenges in the Dunning Process Figure 14: The Biggest Challenge with the Collections Process – Too Many Assigned Accounts The biggest challenge continues to be the account coverage and given the limitation in the number of collections calls that could be made on any given day. Agents are assigned too many accounts at a time and the preferred medium of communication is phone with very limited time spent on other mediums including email and physical letters.
  • 15. 15 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Collections analysts focus on invoice value and aging data and make calls while ignoring a large number of assigned accounts, there are always accounts from the SMBs that make up to 80% of the collections worklist but fall through the cracks since analysts tend to focus on high invoice value accounts. It is also impractical for collections analysts to call these customers for small amounts. 7.2. How Top Organizations Automate Collections Correspondence Figure 15: Automating Correspondence to Let Collectors Focus on Calling Only the Most Critical Accounts As the figure 15 illustrates, systems have to be designed so that the collections analysts call only the most critical accounts. This automation is an extension of the previous section where we talked about how to let the system handle credit policies and score customers on the risk that they pose for the organization. Based on each account score, the system will be able to tell the analyst what the next step should be. For example, if habitual late payers belong to a customer segment, the system should suggest that collections analyst to send out email correspondence 15 days before the invoice is past-due. The system should also have ready-made email templates so that the analyst is able to send mass correspondence to all the customers in that segment with the click of a button. Taking correspondence automation further, the system should be able to automatically send proactive reminders for all accounts depending on the credit policies. While email correspondence automation takes care of account coverage and brings the money to the bank through proactive reminders, collections analysts continue focusing on high priority large accounts. This optimizes the collection process thereby reducing DSO. 7.3. Collections Success Story : Dr. Pepper Snapple and Yaskawa America Inc. Yaskawa America, the leading manufacturer of HVAC equipment adopted automated prioritization of worklists and was able to contact more customers. The process improved overall to help Yaskawa in reducing DSO by 5.5 days and achieve a Collections Effectiveness Index of 90%. Similarly, Dr Pepper Snapple, the beverages major was able to improve collector productivity by 40% by adopting collections correspondence automation and reduce the number of accounts in a collection’s analyst’s worklist by 88%.
  • 16. 16 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation 8. Collaborating with Buyer A/P teams One of the biggest challenges in credit-to-cash cycle is supplier-buyer collaboration for processes across credit, billing, collections, payment processing and dispute resolution. Since teams collaborate manually over email, it proves to be a huge challenge to maintain a system of record especially on past communication and patterns in problems. 8.1. Top Challenges in A/R-A/P Collaboration A/R and A/P collaboration is very important right from credit application process where the credit terms are set to the collections process where the A/P team pays the dues and reaches a settlement on deductions. Figure 16: Manual Process in The Invoice to Cash Process Figure 16 outlines, the number of manual steps from the invoicing process to the payment process. An error in even one of the steps will result in a late payment and increase in DSO. 8.2. How Top Organizations Facilitate A/R and A/P Collaboration Figure 17: Enabling Digital Collaboration Between Buyers and Suppliers As the figure 17 outlines, establishing a digital collaboration portal between buyers and suppliers is the first step that organizations have undertaken. The platform is able to link the supplier ERP with the buyer ERP so that with a single click the supplier is able to post invoices directly into the buyer’s ERP.
  • 17. 17 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Figure 18: Condensing a 10 step process to a 2 step process by leveraging a buyer supplier network Figure 18 outlines what the new process will be. A billing analyst generates an invoice for a product/service and posts it on to the network which in turn posts it directly on to the ERP of the buyer. This results in faster invoice delivery, seamless payment from the accounting system and straight through cash posting as the payment happens through the portal. 9. Leveraging a Connected Platform for All of Credit-to-Cash As the previous sections show, there could be significant gains from optimizing each of the individual processes in the credit-to-cash cycle. However, credit and accounts receivable teams could unlock gains in multiples if they start breaking departmental silos and work as an engine. 9.1. Top Challeges with Disconnected Credit and A/R Operations Starting with the credit team, blocked orders directly affect the top-line of any company. Since the credit and collections teams work in silos, accounts that near credit utilization might get missed out by collections and the new orders get blocked. Sometimes, the case is only that the customer didn’t remember about the existing credit limit. Similarly, lack of clarity on deductions means that collections teams either call customers with open deductions and get nowhere or ignore resolved deductions and ignore low hanging fruits for collections. Figure 19: Blocked Order Process
  • 18. 18 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation The figure above outlines all the different people who need to coordinate together to resolve a blocked order. The end result is that blocked order process is always a reactive process and along with delaying revenue realization, it also is responsible for compliance problems in credit policies. 9.2. How Leading Organizations Break Silos in Credit and A/R Teams Figure 20: A Streamlined Blocked Order Process Supported by Integrated Systems and Artificial Intelligence Leading organizations are strengthening process collaboration by leveraging integrated technology. To elaborate, systems are able to read patterns based on past sales orders and triggering a workflow for potential blocked orders to either send automated correspondence or for the credit analyst to notify the customer about delivery blocks. The customer is then able to directly view the invoice in a buyer-supplier collaboration portal and pay through the same. The credit limit is then automatically freed and orders don’t get blocked. Summary To summarize, all of these strategies fall into the following three buckets: I. Fixing the root cause of High DSO: High DSO could either be because the customer in question is not worthy of such credit or simply because the customer was not contacted on time. Addressing customer onboarding and credit review process will take care of the former and addressing the collections bottlenecks will take care of the latter. II. Eliminating Wastage in A/R Operations: Sometimes, even after all the optimizations within collections, organizations don’t have enough resources for collections. Addressing wastage in resource intensive processes including cash application and deductions will give organizations enough leeway to increase FTEs working on collections while flatlining the A/R team head count as a whole. III. Breaking Silos in Operations and Facilitating Collaboration: Collections as a process involves communicating with internal and external stakeholders. Addressing how information flows within the A/R team for example from cash application team to the collections team and collaboration between buyers and suppliers will further unlock opportunities to reduce DSO and improve accounts receivable turnover. As the success stories show, organizations of all size right from Fortune 1000 companies including Dr Pepper Snapple and Danone and SMBs including Marketo and ShurTech brands have been able to deploy these 9 strategies and reduce DSO by 10%-20%.
  • 19. 19 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation About HighRadius HighRadius is a Fintech enterprise Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company. The HighRadius™ Integrated Receivables platform optimizes cash flow through automation of receivables and payments processes across credit, collections, cash application, deductions, electronic billing and payment processing. Powered by Rivana™ Artificial Intelligence Engine and Freda™ Virtual Assistant for Credit-to-Cash, HighRadius Integrated Receivables enables teams to leverage machine learning for accurate decision making and future outcomes. The radiusOne™ B2B payment network allows suppliers to digitally connect with buyers, closing the loop from supplier receivable processes to buyer payable processes. HighRadius solutions have a proven track record of optimizing cash flow, reducing days sales outstanding (DSO) and bad debt, and increasing operational efficiency so that companies may achieve strong ROI in just a few months. To learn more, please visit https://www.highradius.com/. HighRadius’ Integrated Receivables Platform Integrated Receivables is a solution to optimize accounts receivable operations by integrating all receivable and payment modules to work as a unified business process. At the core of the Integrated Receivables platform are solutions for credit, collections, deductions, cash application, electronic billing and payment processing – covering the entire gamut from credit-to-cash. The HighRadiusTM Integrated Receivables platform is a stand-out as it enables every credit and A/R operation to execute real-time from a unified platform with an end goal of lower DSO, reduced bad-debt, faster dispute resolution and improved efficiency, accuracy for cash application, billing and payment processing. HighRadiusTM Integrated Receivables leverages RivanaTM Artificial Intelligence for Accounts Receivable to convert receivables faster and more effectively using machine learning for accurate decision making across credit and receivable processes. The Integrated Receivables platform also enables suppliers to digitally connect with buyers via the radiusOneTM network, closing the loop from the supplier A/R process to the buyer A/P process.
  • 20. 20 9 Proven Ways to Reduce DSO e – b o o k ©2017 HighRadius Corporation Corporate Headquarters HighRadius Corporation 11451 Katy Freeway, Suite 650 Houston, Texas 77079 (281) 968-4473 http://www.highradius.com/ info@highradius.com