Furniture retail outlet maintains document security and increases efficiency with FileBound

Successful home furnishings company is limited by congested internal services and lack of space for sensitive material. FileBound Document Management Solutions with hosting capability provides structure needed to get company up to date on the latest electronic filing software and increase daily efficiency.

Company Profile

Founded in the early 1970’s, this privately held retail company is one of the fastest growing furniture outlets in the country. Offering multiple name brand home furnishing stores in one location provides customers with unparalleled selection. With 31 locations and roughly 3000 employees this national company has a strong and successful background. High quality furniture and a knowledgeable sales staff provide unbeatable resources for continued growth.

Business Challenge

Though successful with customers and retail, the company began to feel internal strains through its continued growth. With expansion, the hiring of new staff and transfer of existing staff created complications in storing employee records and files. All employee records had to be stored in an offsite location, which consisted simply of stacked file boxes. These boxes took up valuable space and created a cumbersome process of retrieving a specific file, especially if the file was in a box located at the bottom. Also, the inconvenience of an offsite storage center was an insecure way to store sensitive data and time consuming to retrieve data and share documents. While aiming for an innovative electronic filing system, the company lacked onsite technical staff to properly maintain any sort of complex system.

Solution

In 2007 the company was able to successfully address all individual needs with one compact solution using FileBound Document Management System. Overcoming the lack of a technical department, the FileBound On-Demand option was chosen allowing hosted electronic file storage. Hosting alleviated the initial capital investment from the company and provided security for sensitive employee records. FileBound On-Demand allowed company employees to retrieve records data through a secure Internet connection and processed file requests infinitely faster than if done manually.

Initial implementation of FileBound software was complete in less than a week and scan-on-demand abilities allowed newly scanned documents to be available the same day. Through the secure Internet connection and easy usability, employees were able to retrieve documents instantaneously increasing the overall efficiency of day-to-day operations. Within months all paper records were scanned and stored at the host site to eliminate all hard copy records, creating usable physical storage space and reduced costs.

Business Benefits

The successful furniture retail company was able to greatly improve the ease and
efficiency of daily operations. Documents became readily available to employees at
multiple locations at the same time. Sharing of information increased employee’s
ability to process service requests more quickly and improve communication
networks. The FileBound solution increased qualitative and quantitative aspects of
business in multiple ways:

• Drastically reduced costs associated with rental of storage space and mailing fees to move documents to locations around the country
• Increased security of company sensitive information
• Cut document retrieval time down from hours to minutes
• Allowed employees to share files within minutes instead of days, greatly improving internal employee service

Though the company had already proven its ability to address the needs of customers, FileBound gave them the ability to properly address internal issues as well. On-Demand scanning capabilities and host storage of files has allowed this company to improve overall internal structure and prepare for the opportunities of the future.