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NFT, one of the UK's chilled food and drink distributors, has selected a new system for proof of delivery (POD), which will provide greater visibility and transparency across the entire logistics supply chain.

The solution, which has been developed and installed by e-docs UK, is based around the enterprise capture solution ABBYY FlexiCapture.

e-docs UK has been providing outsourced document processing solutions for 25 years. The company’s solution efficiently handles over 100,000 PODs every week with a Web-based, query management system that enables customers to rapidly identify and resolve any discrepancies on a timely basis.

"We are committed to developing our infrastructure to increase operational efficiency and achieve optimum satisfaction levels,” said Andrew De Vere, NFT's director of warehouse operations with responsibility for customer services, in a statement.

Andrew De Vere said that the e-docs UK system meets the needs of food and drink manufacturers for rapid and timely access to delivery documents and enables the company’s customer services team to be more productive looking after customers rather than spending their time trying to track down paperwork.

Thanks to the new system, all supplier PODs and retailer goods receipt notes can now be scanned and then sent to ABBYY FlexiCapture where the documents are read, and meta data is automatically extracted for indexing using multiple criteria including supplier name, PO number, delivery date and delivery point. With this information the search and retrieval processes are significantly improved.

"We would not have been able to deliver this solution within budget with any other capture product on the market than ABBYY FlexiCapture," said Colin Baterip, managing director of e-docs UK.

“On an annual basis we have saved over £100,000 or around U.S. $ 152,660 in production costs thanks to a variety of features in FlexiCapture: the flexible document definitions, an unrivalled indexing and validation ability, and the significantly reduced time for preparation and scanning were all huge wins for us,” said Baterip.

“Those features, coupled with a very competitive licensing cost, made our decision easy and we plan to use ABBYY FlexiCapture for input management in the future," he said.

Earlier in November, ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic technologies and services, announced it won a large deal with e-docs UK of Herts, U.K.,  a business process outsourcer (BPO). 

e-docs UK has chosen to incorporate the ABBYY FlexiCapture technology into some of its business solutions offerings.

In choosing ABBYY FlexiCapture, e-docs UK had four main criteria that had to be met: high quality OCR results; identification of multiple form types; Web-based verification; and a price point that makes deals with clients profitable.