Real-world examples from a paperless society

People have all heard about the "paperless society," a long-heralded utopia made possible by advances in enterprise content management. However, one presenter pointed out, in his closing slide during the recent annual conference on the subject, that this has been the quest of this industry...

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Published inInformation today Vol. 27; no. 8; p. 18
Main Authors Murphy, Terry, Murphy, W.T
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Medford Information Today, Inc 01.09.2010
Subjects
Advantages
Business logistics
Conferences
Cost control
Economic aspects
Electronic publication
Electronic publishing
Enterprise content management
Forecasts and trends
Human error
Information accessibility
Information management
Logistics
Management
Market trend/market analysis
Marketing
OCR
Optical character recognition
Order disorder
Order entry
Regional
Return on investment
Slip
Technology application
United States
United States > US
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ISSN8755-6286
2169-0340

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Summary:People have all heard about the "paperless society," a long-heralded utopia made possible by advances in enterprise content management. However, one presenter pointed out, in his closing slide during the recent annual conference on the subject, that this has been the quest of this industry for some time. Today, all of the delivery slips are sent to one of two regional centers where they are scanned and read with optical character recognition technology. Although the company continues to use paper, the ROI resulted in how the ordering process was streamlined and how human error was removed.
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ISSN:8755-6286
2169-0340