Barron Collier Company Achieves Instant Visibility and Tighter Controls in Accounts Payable

Barron Collier Company (BCC) in Naples, Fla., develops and manages numerous land holdings across the country. As one of the largest diversified companies in southwest Florida, BCC’s business ventures include extensive agricultural operations such as citrus groves and vegetable farming; commercial, retail and residential real estate development; as well as oil exploration and mineral management.

Staff at BCC headquarters handle the accounts payable processes for the more than 130 smaller companies that comprise the business, making payables one of biggest operations in the company. The centralized AP staff shuffled paper invoices through the approval process manually, and entered coding into their Dynamics GP solution at the end of the process to issue checks to vendors. In addition to the many steps involved in the workflow process before signing, BCC also required two signatures to approve each payment. BCC business managers knew that in order to make the business more effective, it was time to improve the payables process and reduce the paper build up it was experiencing.