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Integrated Digital Management Improving Revenue Recognition

Background

Coca-Cola Bottlers’ Sales & Services (CCBSS) is a limited liability company owned by 65+ U.S. independent Coca-Cola Bottlers. CCBSS supports operations for their bottler owners as well as bottler-owned production cooperatives, Coca-Cola North America, and other participating beverage partners across the Coca-Cola System. Since 2003, CCBSS has provided a single voice for the North American Coca-Cola System to customers and suppliers through their Customer Business Solution and Procurement divisions. Together with their partners and stakeholders, CCBSS leverages the size and scale of the Coca-Cola System to drive maximum value and win as a system every day.

Challenges addressed

  • Ripcord managed logistics for the movement of all recorded content from identified North American Coca-Cola Bottlers to the company’s production facility.
  • A key objective for this partnership is supporting account reconciliation. When invoices are submitted, as evidence of order fulfillment Proof of Delivery documentation is provided as supporting information for every invoice.
  • These fulfillment documents originate with the bottlers. Ripcord’s biggest task is to digitize records and provide easy integration with SAP/OnBase. To close out monthly billing, extracted metadata along with image files are sent through workflow process daily.

Solution

An AR-focused project with capture, integration, and account reconciliation needs, as proof of delivery sales receipts are required as part of the client’s invoicing process.

Benefits

The project started in Q1 2019. The main objective was vendor consolidation for document management.

  • 99.5% accuracy of extracted metadata
  • Annual savings through vendor consolidation and associated fees
  • Consolidation of five suppliers, yielding $1 million in annual savings

 

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