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The pain points of paper: Leeco Steel thinks beyond document imaging to paperless automation

by Dann Anthony Maurno
Assistant Editor, MSDW

With considerable growth in contracts and geography at the end of 2013, Leeco Steel was less eager to add people than it was to "[make everybody] more efficient in preparation for our growth," said CFO Mark Krzmarzick. 

Leeco Steel traces its origin to 1882 - the same year that Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show debuted. So, it has been modernizing for 132 years, with both steelmaking innovation and overcoming legacy business processes.

It now manages its 11 locations in the US, Canada, Chile, and Mexico using Microsoft Dynamics GP. With that expansion, Leeco experienced all the growing pains related to legacy accounting, such as error-prone manual entry of invoices and laborious month-end processes. Company growth simply piled the hours on those processes.

The company's legacy document imaging system had eased the burden somewhat, for five years. But says Leeco System Administrator George Hock, "[We] were looking for something to automate the entire process," and eliminate manual entry. The company further required web access, and the ability to make programming changes, which had compounded expense with the previous imaging vendor. 

Thus, the company's requirements went far beyond document imaging: it needed to turn paper processes into electronic ones.

In 2014, Krzmarzick and his team began searching for solutions to streamline its AP processes, and singled out Metafile'MetaViewer.  

MetaViewer integrates with every Microsoft Dynamics ERP, including Dynamics 365 for Operations. Metafile's Tom Ress speaks of a "merger between" MetaViewer and Dynamics GP, versus an integration. 

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About Dann Anthony Maurno

Dann Anthony Maurno is a seasoned business journalist who began his career as International Marketing Manager with Lilly Software, then moved on as a freelancer to write for such prestigious clients as CFO Magazine; Compliance Week;Manufacturing Business Technology; Decision Resources, Inc.; The Economist Intelligence Unit; and corporate clients such as Iron Mountain, Microsoft and SAP. He is the co-author of Thin Air: How Wireless Technology Supports Lean Initiatives(CRC/Productivity Press, 2010).