Kuryakyn is well known to those who own motorcycles, especially to people that have been dressing up Harleys over the years. As a matter of fact, if you do a Google search for “Kuryakyn”, you will find 705,000 websites that reference Kuryakyn.

 

Based in Somerset, Wisconsin, Kuryakyn was started by Tom Rudd and his wife, Patricia, in 1989. Since then, the company has grown impressively and now encompasses several buildings and a pool of over 100 employees. Kuryakyn offers over 1,600 aftermarket motorcycle parts and accessories for Harley Davidson and Metric Cruiser.

 

Kuryakyn ships an average of 1,000 packages per day to their customers all over the world. To help you understand just how much that is, every day one or two semi-trailers are needed for that many packages. With that many orders per day, can you imagine how much paperwork would be generated? Just the daily invoice register report alone is around 1,200 pages.

 

Even after several building additions, office space was a precious commodity. Rather than taking up office space with paper storage, they decided it would be better to use document imaging as much as possible and have the space available for new employees to help them meet their sales goals.

 

Kuryakyn purchased a 10-user Laserfiche system with Quickfields, Zone OCR, and a Bell and Howell scanner from Larry Phelps of Solbrekk, hoping to not only save space, but also to help the office staff’s efficiency.

 

“Laserfiche has definitely saved time, space, and lots of paper in our offices,” states Kathy Bawek, IT Manager. “Standard reports out of our MAS500 system that would normally get printed and stored are now brought directly into Laserfiche as image files.”

 

Kathy went on to say, “Laserfiche makes it easier for our employees to look up information rather than having to find the paper reports.”

 

Kathy concluded by saying, “When you look around, you see Laserfiche is really working. You don’t see rows of filing cabinets, boxes of accounting reports, or piles of paperwork in the office space.”