Thursday 21st August, 2014

New College Durham, a further and higher education provider in the north east of England, has completed a re-organisation of its back office departments, after the installation of a new finance system with electronic workflow and document management from Advanced Business Solutions.

The College, which has around 15,000 full and part-time students, implemented the financial management system, with integrated workflow module, eBIS and document management software, in August 2012. Since then, it has led to the creation of a new department dedicated to developing workflows across the campus.

The software has made efficiencies in the College’s support departments and has led to the creation of a new department dedicated to developing workflows across the campus.

Nicola Whiting, New College Durham’s Systems Accountant, said "Advanced’s software has been so successful at cutting administration and improving the support team’s processes that we have been able to move individuals’ skill sets to more added value tasks to better cope with new demands from across the College."

The integrated document management software has helped to considerably streamline the organisation’s accounts payable function and has significantly reduced the amount of time the finance team spends logging and processing invoices.