Today, credit teams have to spend their valuable time and effort on low-impact manual tasks. These include studying each credit report, identifying the correct data to consider, and then updating each customer’s credit information.
All of this becomes difficult to accomplish without the support of technology. Credit teams should only spend time making credit decisions based on the data gathered with such technology.
Credit departments need a tool that can monitor credit risk in real-time. Such an AI-powered automated credit management solution can help teams avoid all the low-impact tasks that are liable to oversight and human error. This scalable solution gives you:
Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals.
Credit management was one of the biggest challenges for their A/R department. With paper-based credit applications being faxed to the credit department, onboarding new customers or releasing blocked orders became a lengthy and tedious process at the Huntsman office. Credit reviews were performed with no scoring system in place.
To address these challenges, Huntsman adopted an automated cloud solution that delivers the following:
This resulted in lowering the time taken to conduct each credit review by 96%.
Today, credit leaders realize the importance of having an efficient, practical, and up-to-date credit risk management process. Increasing the number of credit reviews being performed or credit reports being pulled is just a short-term solution and cannot become your organization’s credit strategy. This outlook needs to change quickly and drastically if working capital optimization is a priority. Your credit management process needs a reliable and long-term solution to ensure unpredictable incidents and factors do not deter your business.
The utmost responsibility of directors and managers of credit is to guide their organizations on the right path to ensure intelligent real-time credit risk monitoring, preventing bad debt and enabling profitable growth.
This requires transitioning from traditional methods of operation to more futuristic and scalable digital solutions. Additionally, having global visibility across all A/R operations with the help of a platform that consolidates all the data from internal teams helps break silos and contribute to faster revenue growth.
HighRadius Credit Software automates the credit management process, enabling credit managers to make highly-accurate credit decisions 2X faster and enable faster customer onboarding with 4 primary components: configurable online credit application, customizable credit scoring engines, credit agency data aggregation engine, and collaborative credit management workflow. Along with that, there are a lot of key features that should definitely be explored some of which are online credit application, credit information aggregation, automated credit scoring & risk assessment, credit management workflows, approval workflows, and automated bank & trade reference checks. The result is faster customer onboarding, better internal collaboration, higher customer satisfaction, more targeted periodic reviews, and lower credit risk across the company’s customer portfolio.