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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Accelerating sales can increase DSO, but most often the cause is problems in the order-to-cash (O2C) pipeline affecting collections. Your Virtual Credit Manager is a reader-supported publication. Learn More About Credit Reports Please share this newsletter with your small business customers. Need help improving cash flow?

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Tackling Customers that Always Pay Late

Your Virtual Credit Manager

A customer that pays on time does not require any collection efforts. Those who sometimes pay on time only require a collection effort when they pay late; getting them to pay is usually not difficult. Since they are abusing your credit terms, why not require them to pay with a credit card when they place an order?

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RMAI Presents FinancialLiteracy.Rocks for Financial Capability Month

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The post RMAI Presents FinancialLiteracy.Rocks for Financial Capability Month appeared first on Receivables Management Association International. The website features a variety of tools, guides, videos, instructional programs, interactive games, and comprehensive overviews. More information about RMAI is available at www.rmaintl.org.

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Take a Strategic Approach to Collections

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Each past due account presents a unique set of circumstances. Consequently, your collection process needs to adapt to each situation if you are going to realize the best outcomes possible. A one size fits all approach to collections will not achieve as high a level of recoveries and cash flow as a strategic approach to collections.

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Collecting and managing carbon footprint information from suppliers during direct material sourcing process

SAP Credit Management

To effectively manage the emission footprint, we must first measure it – this is where the importance of collecting and measuring emissions comes in. However, quantifying scope 3 emissions presents a challenge. Collecting and measuring scope 3 emissions entails collecting intricate data from a web of suppliers.

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How to Automate the Collection Process to Eliminate Manual Tasks

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The sooner your business collects on its invoices, the lower your financial risks and the better your financial position. One of the fastest ways to do this is via collections process automation to streamline the A/R process, eliminate manual tasks, and ensure timely follow-up with customers.

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Foster Faster Collections with Effective Reminders

Your Virtual Credit Manager

For most small businesses, collections are reactive. In the meantime, routine collections are driven by passive activities, often just a monthly statement. While statements provide a history of invoice, credit, debit and payment activity on an account, dunning notices focus on past due balances.