Streamline Strategies

One of the top motion picture studios in Los Angeles contracted with Streamline Strategies to assist their Home Video Department with creating a JD Edwards One World customization for managing chargebacks and credits. The department generates over $1 billion in revenues annually, so an automated data cleansing and auto-match system was developed to free analyst resources for other credit tasks. The project, which was defined and managed by Streamline Strategies, Inc. launched early and under budget. An entire team of outsourced contractors who previously manually matched chargebacks and credits were either moved out of the department or on to other projects.


	·	Customer, document type and reason code specific data cleansing rules
	·	Addition of master document types and deduction level reason coding
	·	Cash application enhancements
	·	Mass Update capability to change reason codes, add notes, update status codes and modify store numbers
	·	Sophisticated Auto Match logic based on customer, document type and deduction reason codes
	·	Small balance write-off functionality based on reason codes that includes customer specific selection and restrictions
	·	Wait days programming that updates reason codes based on customer payment patterns or number of days outstanding

	Another significant project with this studio involved streamlining their Cash Application system to include processing remittances using EDI, Excel uploads and OCR scanning. This 3-month project has enabled the Home Video Finance Department to reduce the cash posting timeline from 2 weeks to one day for most customers. Through OCR technology, all line item detail - which was previously too voluminous for data entry - can now be captured from the remittances.
	Streamline assisted another Motion Pictures Home Video division with establishing standard procedures, including creating new methods for tracking payments and developing automated solutions/procedures for handing cash application and reconciliation. Within the first month, we increased collections by 150% over projected receipts.