TM Blinds

T.M. Blinds Ltd is an Irish business in operation since 1980. Situated in Co. Dublin, they have grown to become Ireland’s largest manufacturer and distributor of premium blinds and shutters. They offer a bespoke and turnkey service to leading retailers and suppliers nationwide.

T.M. Blinds’ customer care agents process in excess of 1,000 orders per week. Orders arrive in through various channels such as; telephone, fax, and official order forms etc. All sales orders and delivery dockets were physically filed and stored away. Often when the order entered their production management system there was no link to the original paperwork. To retrieve filed paperwork in a timely fashion and dealing with queries was proving to be an almost impossible task.

To overcome this a new workflow was introduced and this was backed up by the document management solution, Therefore, along with a barcode system. A barcode is placed on each order form allowing staff to scan the paperwork into Therefore and subsequently match each P.O.D. with the original order once delivery has taken place. Orders are now batch scanned in minutes at the end of each evening and are instantly accessible due to the search capabilities in Therefore.

• Customer care agents now have instant access to original order & proof of delivery documentation which allows them to respond instantly to incoming calls and queries
• Query times have been reduced from weeks and sometimes months to minutes
• Instantaneous archive and retrieval of historical business critical data
• A scalable solution that will be leveraged within other areas of the business e.g. invoice processing in Accounts

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