Why Electronic Reporting?
Technology provides a faster more efficient and accurate method of reporting. Both industry and states would benefit from simplification.
- Implementation of a reporting standard across the industry will improve the process for all involved.
- With the elimination of the current labor intensive process, states and agricultural businesses will experience significant cost and time savings.
Industry:
Electronic reporting eliminates several reporting and report creation issues.
- Multiple formats – 40+ different formats
- Lack of consistency in data definitions from state to state.
- High cost to generate reports – manual reporting is time consuming, labor intensive and not sustainable.
States:
Paperless reporting helps or eliminates several report processing issues.
- Budget constraints or reductions. “Need to do more with less”
- Lack of consistency in companies reporting
- Time consuming manual key-entry of data from paper forms
- Manual processing of large quantities of reports/paper/filing
- Hiring temporary help to key-enter data adds to cost and is error prone.