Purchase Order Payment Process

One of the methods that the Accounts Payable Section of the Accounting Division uses to improve the vendor's payment process is to measure the time required for divisions to process receivers, and the time that it takes to issue a check following the receiver approval. For over a year, we have been accumulating this data by agency and meeting with agency managers to review reports of their supplier activity with them and discuss ways to speed up the payment process.

Broward County intends to be a good business partner to its suppliers and to pay them as quickly as possible. The Accounts Payable Section even solicits quick payment discount terms from vendors, and gives priority attention to invoices from vendors offering discounts, so that the County can reduce its overall costs.

To illustrate how successful these efforts have been, we have prepared a list of ten agencies that represent the fastest processors of receivers. The Top Ten Agencies average a relatively low number of days to process receivers. We will update these lists regularly and hope that all agencies will strive to be on the Top Ten list.