Council's unpaid invoices 6 months after SAP go-live
Birmingham City Council - Europe's largest local authority with a £3bn annual turnover - has had an "approvals day" to try and clear a backlog of about 10,000 unpaid invoices from its suppliers. The invoices were "struck" in a SAP-based financial system, more than six months after going live.
The council said this week [May 2008] it had cleared a backlog of invoices which built up when it implemented its "Voyager" system in October 2007 - but its spokesman added that this led to a build-up of unpaid invoices "further along in the payments system".
The council set aside 13 May 2008 as an "Approvals Day" to clear backlogs and "identify and permanently eradicate any remaining payment issues that still exist".
A Birmingham City Council spokesperson said today (15 May 2008): "A total of 2,000 invoices were cleared as a result of Approvals Day on May 13.
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