With headquarters in the hot desert of Phoenix, Arizona , the specialty chemical producer knows a thing or two about thriving in an unforgiving environment. So when order-to-cash (O2C) inefficiencies began interfering with the company’s growth, TKI took initiative — and changed how it did business forever.
A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE
About a decade ago, TKI was facing what could be described as “a good problem to have.” The company was growing exponentially, making acquisitions on a global scale and expanding its expertise into new and competitive markets. Business was booming … but success doesn’t come without consequences of its own.
All the acquisitions TKI made brought new levels of complexity to its IT infrastructure. What once was a modest landscape, now included a myriad of different systems, making it difficult to centralise O2C communications.
Furthermore, its growth as a business meant more customers to serve and documents to handle. Because TKI ran its O2C processes using manual methods, it was facing the prospect of investing in more resources (e.g., staff, equipment, consumables, etc.) to keep up with company growth.
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AMAZING OUTCOMES
A decade ago, TKI began this initiative with a handful of simple yet strategic goals in mind. Above all else, the company needed a way to maintain its rapid growth without having to expend valuable resources in the process.
Enhancing the performance of its O2C processes proved to be a great way to create added value, and judging by the phenomenal results TKI has seen since go-live, Esker has proved to be the
right provider for the job.
FUTURE PLANS
What TKI achieved with Esker are the kind of things that happily-ever-after tales are made of. But this story is far from finished. TKI now has its sights on improving another critical business process
— and one that, like order processing, has a significant impact on the company’s success moving forward.
With Esker’s Order Processing solution already firmly in place and creating significant amounts of added value, naturally, TKI is looking to a familiar friend for help. Not only does Esker’s Accounts Payable solution offer the kind of functionality TKI is searching for (e.g., document capture and data recognition, 3-way matching verification, etc.), the added complexities and technologies of an unfamiliar vendor would be avoided. Only time will tell how the next chapter in TKI’s storyunfolds, but if history is any guide, the sun will continue to shine in Phoenix.
“The results have been fantastic — we’veactually reduced our order processing time from around three minutes down to 30 seconds by using Esker’s Order Processing automation solution”.
Dan McMenomy | Director of Business Systems
