The Blog - Part 18

Three ways that mobile is transforming procurement

19 Nov 2014 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, e-Procurement, Electronic Invoicing, Purchase to Pay, Spend Analysis, Spend Analytics

New technologies always promise to disrupt – it’s nearly always hype or enthusiastic futurology manifesting itself as over excitement that hasn’t really been thought through. But it’s not always hype and it’s great to see optimistic expectations actually being delivered in the real world. I…

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The most exotic spend category? – I think I win

12 Nov 2014 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay

I’m growing increasingly uncomfortable about disclosing how many years I’ve been consulting in the P2P space but spending many years doing the same sort of thing does give you a rich store of anecdotes and war stories. Something I do take a quiet delight in…

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A blast from the past – a not so new new-entrant in the spend management space

05 Nov 2014 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Spend Analytics

Like buses, you wait for one for ages then two come at once. It was only a few weeks ago I was speaking to Perfect Commerce – a rebranding of one of the great names of the past, CommerceOne – and this week I had…

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Every little helps

04 Nov 2014 Posted by Angus Craig in Procurement Best Practices

Shoppers and investors were taken by surprise when Tesco announced a £250m black hole in their profits last month. Tesco’s suppliers, however, were not. The supermarket, the second-largest retailer in the world, has been under pressure for some time. Shoppers are increasingly turning their backs…

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Back to basics – the difference between price and cost

26 Oct 2014 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process

When implementing Purchase to Pay, the strength of the objections to change can be surprising. People prefer paper. They don’t want to change. They want things immediately and they refuse to follow new processes. They think they can get a better deal themselves compared to…

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26 is a magic number

23 Oct 2014 Posted by Richard Manson in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Today, another post from Richard Manson from CloudTrade Let’s start at the beginning. What do we know about 26? Wikipedia – the font of all knowledge – tells me that 26 is ‘the natural number following 25 and preceding 27’. OK, I can go with…

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An unusual convergence – P2P and slot machines

10 Oct 2014 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing

What links the P2P Summit in Vegas later this month and the entrepreneur of the year award? The P2P Summit, (which by the way you should attend – see here) is one of the most important dates in the calendar but, being very honest, I…

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