compliment the new ERP system with an array of technologies that relegate paper to Al-Yaqout ’ s history . “ There is now no need to have hard copies stored at your desk – everything is scanned and stored on Office 365 OneDrive ,” says Mattur . “ The result is an almost 90 % reduction in hard copies .” To transfer existing documents to the new system , the document scanning element has been handled by OpenText , a software solution that leverages AI and analytics to read paper copies and automatically index them based on their content .
Mattur ’ s ambitions for automation at Al-Yaqout do not end there , however . Upon his arrival at the company , Al-Yaqout had implemented next to no automation technology , offering a blank canvas for Mattur to deploy his vision for a fully automated system capable of managing end-to-end business cycles . “ The system needed to implement workflows , plays and approvals , because we have policies and procedures here and a centralised top management ,” he says . “ Anything that happens in any of our subsidiaries has to be approved , and for that they
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