In many businesses, work follows a schedule. Teams operate during set hours, and tasks are completed within that time frame. But documents do not follow the same rules. They arrive at any time. The Reality of Document Flow Invoices can be sent late at night. Forms can be submitted outside business hours. Purchase orders can arrive from different time zones. Documents flow continuously, regardless of when teams are available to process them. This creates a mismatch between when documents arrive and when they are handled. The Delay Between Arrival and Processing When document processing is manual, there is always a delay. If a document arrives after working hours, it sits unprocessed until the next day. If multiple documents arrive overnight, they create a queue that must be handled later. This delay may seem small at first, but it accumulates over time. The Impact of Limited Processing Hours Limiting document processing to working hours leads to several issues.…