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Netfira’s Resource Hub is designed to empower businesses like yours, providing insightful tools, guides, and materials relating to intelligent document processing and automation. From digitising cumbersome manual processes to embracing sophisticated automation techniques, dive into our resources and discover the world of opportunities that awaits you. Your pathway to innovation starts here.

The Hidden Bottleneck in AP Automation: Why Credit Notes Can’t Be Ignored

Processing credit notes manually is no longer viable. By bringing them into the scope of IDP, organisations remove friction from AP workflows and close a critical gap in the P2P process.

Case Study: Streamlined Procurement Operations at HOERBIGER

With Netfira, HOERBIGER automates the handling of POCs, Shipping Notices, and Customer Orders. The result: improved planning accuracy, time savings, and a strategic shift in how purchase orders are managed.

Netfira’s Approach to AI in Intelligent Document Processing

While many IDP providers use an AI-OCR model, Netfira relies on a connection model. The Netfira Platform uses AI where it makes the most impact - during setup and exception handling.

Webinar: Best Practices & New Features

The Netfira team shares the latest features and tools that have recently launched along with best practice tips to help you get even more value from the Netfira Platform in your day-to-day operations.

How Automation Future-Proofs the Procurement Manager’s Role

Automation plays a critical role in future-proofing the procurement manager’s responsibilities, enabling a transition from manual work to smart, value-driven procurement.

Mastering the Purchase Order Journey: How to Transform POs Into Strategic Growth

Forward-thinking businesses are recognising the potential for the PO journey to act as a strategic asset, capable of driving substantial growth and competitive advantage through intelligent automation.

The Importance of Automating Contract Management and the Role of Intelligent Document Processing

Learn what contract management is, why it’s important, how the contract lifecycle management (CLM) process works, and the key benefits of automating contract management with IDP software.

How Intelligent Document Processing Can Help Businesses Thrive in an Economic Downturn

During an economic downturn, document handling is an important area to optimise. This article explores the advantages of Intelligent Document Processing and how it helps businesses to stay competitive and agile in economically challenging times.

How to increase data quality for a competitive edge in procurement

Although high data quality is crucial for successful operational processes, procurement often struggles with poor data quality. The Netfira Platform solves this problem by automating the manual processes where data originates.

Why Businesses Should Embrace Intelligent Document Processing Now, Not Later

In this post, we’ll explore why prioritising an IDP solution now is critical, what competitive advantages it offers, and how it supports key business units like procurement, accounts payable, and customer success.

Document Processing: BPO or Inhouse?

Explore the pros and cons of outsourced document processing versus inhouse, and how Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) operated in the cloud can serve as a powerful solution to meet modern business needs.

Automated Invoice Processing: Comparing RPA and IDP Solutions

Despite their differences, Intelligent Document Processing and Robotic Process Automation solutions are often used for automated invoice processing and streamlining the accounts payable process.

How to Automate Order Confirmations

This video explains what distinguishes the purchase order confirmation from other transactional documents and how to automate the processing of order confirmations.

From Customer to Head of Delivery: Experiences with the Netfira Platform

Dive into the world of document automation, gain fascinating insights about Netfira, learn about Marijana's experiences with the Netfira Platform, and get valuable tips for your automation project.

Product Demonstration: Customer Orders

This product demonstration provides an overview of how the Netfira Platform captures and processes order data, seamlessly integrating it into existing business systems.

Product Demonstration: Invoices

Explore how Netfira manages invoice processing in our demonstration. This video will guide you through the functionality of the Netfira Platform, showing you how it automates the extraction and integration of invoice data into your existing systems.

Unlocking Rapid ROI with Netfira

Discover practical strategies to calculate ROI in your automation projects and explore the multifaceted benefits that document automation brings to your business.

How to Process e-Invoices with the Netfira Platform

Learn in this article how the Netfira Platform automates the entire e-invoicing cycle from the receipt and processing to the creation and sending of e-invoices.

Understanding E-Invoicing and Upcoming Regulations

This article explores e-invoicing in B2B communication, compares it with traditional PDF invoices, and discusses the new regulations set to take effect in Germany starting in 2025.

Which Automation Technology Is Better for Your Operations: RPA or IDP?

Intelligent automation solutions relying on RPA or IDP are often used for the same goals, but their strengths and weaknesses differ. Which automation technology is better suited for the needs of your business operations: RPA or IDP?  

The Hidden Bottleneck in AP Automation: Why Credit Notes Can’t Be Ignored

Processing credit notes manually is no longer viable. By bringing them into the scope of IDP, organisations remove friction from AP workflows and close a critical gap in the P2P process.

Netfira’s Approach to AI in Intelligent Document Processing

While many IDP providers use an AI-OCR model, Netfira relies on a connection model. The Netfira Platform uses AI where it makes the most impact - during setup and exception handling.

How Automation Future-Proofs the Procurement Manager’s Role

Automation plays a critical role in future-proofing the procurement manager’s responsibilities, enabling a transition from manual work to smart, value-driven procurement.

Mastering the Purchase Order Journey: How to Transform POs Into Strategic Growth

Forward-thinking businesses are recognising the potential for the PO journey to act as a strategic asset, capable of driving substantial growth and competitive advantage through intelligent automation.

The Importance of Automating Contract Management and the Role of Intelligent Document Processing

Learn what contract management is, why it’s important, how the contract lifecycle management (CLM) process works, and the key benefits of automating contract management with IDP software.

How Intelligent Document Processing Can Help Businesses Thrive in an Economic Downturn

During an economic downturn, document handling is an important area to optimise. This article explores the advantages of Intelligent Document Processing and how it helps businesses to stay competitive and agile in economically challenging times.

How to increase data quality for a competitive edge in procurement

Although high data quality is crucial for successful operational processes, procurement often struggles with poor data quality. The Netfira Platform solves this problem by automating the manual processes where data originates.

Why Businesses Should Embrace Intelligent Document Processing Now, Not Later

In this post, we’ll explore why prioritising an IDP solution now is critical, what competitive advantages it offers, and how it supports key business units like procurement, accounts payable, and customer success.

Document Processing: BPO or Inhouse?

Explore the pros and cons of outsourced document processing versus inhouse, and how Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) operated in the cloud can serve as a powerful solution to meet modern business needs.

Automated Invoice Processing: Comparing RPA and IDP Solutions

Despite their differences, Intelligent Document Processing and Robotic Process Automation solutions are often used for automated invoice processing and streamlining the accounts payable process.

How to Process e-Invoices with the Netfira Platform

Learn in this article how the Netfira Platform automates the entire e-invoicing cycle from the receipt and processing to the creation and sending of e-invoices.

Understanding E-Invoicing and Upcoming Regulations

This article explores e-invoicing in B2B communication, compares it with traditional PDF invoices, and discusses the new regulations set to take effect in Germany starting in 2025.

Which Automation Technology Is Better for Your Operations: RPA or IDP?

Intelligent automation solutions relying on RPA or IDP are often used for the same goals, but their strengths and weaknesses differ. Which automation technology is better suited for the needs of your business operations: RPA or IDP?  

Intelligent Document Processing for Automated 3-Way and 2-Way Matching

Matching invoices is typically done in either a 3-way match or a 2-way match. Intelligent Document Processing can automate and optimise this process.

How Intelligent Document Processing Optimises Procurement Engineers’ Work

Explore the role of procurement in mechanical engineering, the significance of procurement engineers, the challenges they face, and how IDP can optimise their work.

Document Automation in Mechanical Engineering: Streamlining Efficiency and Productivity

Document automation in mechanical engineering and manufacturing is revolutionising the way professionals handle important documents. By eliminating manual processing, teams can realise higher productivity, better accuracy, and enhanced collaboration.

Unlocking Operational Excellence: The Crucial Role of Smooth Integration in Document Automation

Integrating document automation solutions into established business systems often comes with challenges. The Netfira Platform shows how solutions can be powerful yet effortlessly integrable.

Automate to Innovate: Automating Incoming Goods in Pharmaceutical Procurement

Discover why automating the handling of incoming goods is not just a solution to current challenges but a significant step towards innovative procurement processes in the pharmaceutical industry.

Unpacking the Complex World of Pharmaceutical Procurement

This blog post introduces the world of pharmaceutical procurement, highlighting its pivotal role, outlining the major hurdles and how automation helps to overcome them.

The Benefits of a SaaS IDP Solution for Procurement

Procurement departments relying on IDP benefit immensely from document automation in the cloud. Procurement software needs to be efficient and future-proof which are advantages of SaaS IDP. 

Case Study: Streamlined Procurement Operations at HOERBIGER

With Netfira, HOERBIGER automates the handling of POCs, Shipping Notices, and Customer Orders. The result: improved planning accuracy, time savings, and a strategic shift in how purchase orders are managed.

From Customer to Head of Delivery: Experiences with the Netfira Platform

Dive into the world of document automation, gain fascinating insights about Netfira, learn about Marijana's experiences with the Netfira Platform, and get valuable tips for your automation project.

Syntegon case study

With a global roll-out of the Netfira Platform, Syntegon aims to automate and standardise purchasing processes at all locations. The Netfira Platform is used as the only automation solution for all existing ERP systems.

Fissler case study

Fissler GmbH successfully digitised and automated its purchasing processes using the AI-powered Netfira Platform.

Rosendahl Nextrom case study

Rosendahl Nextrom benefits from high efficiency gains and satisfied suppliers through the digitisation of operational purchasing processes.

Pfleiderer case study

Learn in this case study how Pfleiderer successfully digitised and automated its operational procurement with the Netfira platform.

teamtechnik case study

Learn in this case study how teamtechnik has managed to transform its operative procurement with the Netfira Platform.

Gardner Denver case study

Find out how Netfira enabled Gardner Denver to opimise its processes in operative procurement.

Zentis case study

Read in this case study how Zentis transformed its procurement department with the help of the innovative Netfira Platform.

Webinar: Best Practices & New Features

The Netfira team shares the latest features and tools that have recently launched along with best practice tips to help you get even more value from the Netfira Platform in your day-to-day operations.

How to Automate Order Confirmations

This video explains what distinguishes the purchase order confirmation from other transactional documents and how to automate the processing of order confirmations.

Product Demonstration: Customer Orders

This product demonstration provides an overview of how the Netfira Platform captures and processes order data, seamlessly integrating it into existing business systems.

Product Demonstration: Invoices

Explore how Netfira manages invoice processing in our demonstration. This video will guide you through the functionality of the Netfira Platform, showing you how it automates the extraction and integration of invoice data into your existing systems.

Unlocking Rapid ROI with Netfira

Discover practical strategies to calculate ROI in your automation projects and explore the multifaceted benefits that document automation brings to your business.

Accounts Payable Whitepaper: From Manual Handling to Intelligent Automation

Elevating Accounts Payable: This whitepaper deals with intelligent document processing and details how it achieves intelligent automation in accounts payable.

Webinar: Introduction to the Netfira Platform

Watch this on-demand video to gain valuable insights into Intelligent Document Processing. This webinar offers an introduction to the Netfira Platform and the latest features.

Procurement Whitepaper: Unlocking Efficiency in B2B Document Processing

Beyond automation: This procurement whitepaper deals with the potential of intelligent document processing for unlocking efficiency in B2B document processing.

Cloud SaaS solution vs on-premise solution

This information sheet compares cloud SaaS solutions with on-premise solutions to support the decision process.

Checklist: Choosing a key user

It is important to choose the right person for the role of the key user. This checklist helps you to choose the ideal key user for your automation project.

Internal IT requirements

Unlike other document automation solutions, the Netfira Platform can be implemented with minimal effort from internal IT teams. There are only 5 tasks that require action from IT.

Whitepaper: Document automation along the P2P process

This whitepaper deals with the document automation along the P2P process and presents the benefits of the Netfira Platform.

Whitepaper: A unique alternative to EDI and OCR

Companies must assess the advantages and disadvantages of EDI and OCR technologies to find a solution that works for them. This whitepaper examines OCR and EDI and presents a unique alternative: the Netfira Platform.

Software selection checklist

This checklist helps to define goals that meet the SMART criteria and select a suitable automation software that meets users' needs.

Checklist for defining software requirements

There are a number of things to consider and evaluate before beginning the software selection process. Well-defined specifications will help you to define your business problem and accelerate the software selection process.

The Netfira Platform – unique alternative to OCR

The Netfira Platform offers a unique alternative to OCR solutions. The cloud-based SaaS solution processes data of all document types quickly and reliably.

The Netfira Platform – unique alternative to EDI

The Netfira Platform offers a unique alternative to EDI solutions. The cloud-based SaaS solution connects all important business partners qucikly, easily and cost-effectively.

Pfleiderer case study

Learn in this case study how Pfleiderer successfully digitised and automated its operational procurement with the Netfira platform.

Zentis case study

Read in this case study how Zentis transformed its procurement department with the help of the innovative Netfira Platform.

e-Book: Smart purchasing, smart buyers

Intelligent automation tools and innovative technology modernise and optimise procurement. Using these smart digital tools, the automation of operational tasks and the digitisation of processes should be in the foreground.