Invoice Submission System
Abstract
When it comes to revenue, contracts and
businesses it is imperative for agreements to be
met. The Procurement Organization of Honeywell
Aerospace is currently facing a lot of road blocks
while trying to achieve production and meet their
goals while satisfying their customer at an above
the competition way. There is a big gap between
supplier, customers and even between focals
workings for the Procurement Organization.
Current process is not lean and it’s hurting the
company’s reputation among the competition and
some suppliers are even considering cutting
agreements with the company and taking its
products to other company who could meet their
expectations earlier and in a more satisfactory way.
Honeywell Aerospace is a multi-national company
that manufactures and sells aircraft and aerospace
tools and parts around the globe. The Procurement
organization is the one responsible for ensuring
that all invoices and costs get processed and hit
their respective projects per schedule but it’s
difficult when you have different type of customers
and suppliers from around the globe and sometimes
the same supplier is supporting different types of
projects assigned by the same company. Honeywell
divides their engineering projects into two types:
commercial and government funded. There are
current four focals from the procurement
organization in charge of all projects, the team is
composed from people from two different countries:
Mexicali peers cannot work on government funded
projects. This means that even when you have four
employees to do all the job, two of them due to
citizen restrictions can’t even look at around 32%
of the projects and these four people are in charge
and responsible for processing all invoices for the
whole Engineering organization and when its sole
database becomes obsolete and the process is not
very user friendly, numbers are not met and
something should be done about it. Upper
management in Honeywell chimes in looking for
ways to retain their customers and make sure they
are satisfied.
Key Terms:
- Invoice Submission System: internal process of
Honeywell to receive and process invoices for
engineering projects.
- Focal: employee designated to work with
Engineering project.
- Procurement Organization: Department
responsible for receivable and processing of
all invoices within Honeywell Aerospace.
- SharePoint: website provided and maintained
by Honeywell for internal and 3rd party
suppliers to upload invoices from their projects
for processing