bottomline.com Avnet GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION Avent EM EMEA is considered the hub of a complex supply chain, with such a large and growing number of customers and suppliers they process over 750,000 inbound invoices and generate over 1.3 million outbound invoices every year. Over the past five years the company has streamlined invoice processes – primarily on the inbound side – to reduce manual touch points and achieve high levels of straight through processing. However, while many of Avnet’s larger supplier organizations work via electronic data interchange, as Doug Adams, European Supplier Finance Director, Avnet EM EMEA explains, “For a number of our suppliers, EDI methods are not a viable option. As a result, we were devoting time and resources toward the manual processing of app

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