The Blog - Part 33

Coffee break podcast – a chat with Ed Berger from Nipendo

09 Aug 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Podcasts

Last week I met Ed Berger for the first time. It was gratifying to find out how much we had in common. We’ve both been operating in the same P2P space for longer than we’d care to admit and it is always interesting to compare…

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Tradeshift – Walking the walk with workflow

06 Aug 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Supply Chain, Workflow

Tradeshift has just made a double announcement. Their new customer reference, Lear Corporation is impressive enough but it Tradeshift’s Collaborative Workflow that Lear is deploying that’s caught my attention.

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Tradeshift launch a new look and feel

05 Aug 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing

Tradeshift launched their new website last week. I’ve been looking forward to it for some time. Having seen some the forward developments of the Tradeshift platform I was keen to see how the look and feel would materialize in a live environment.

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Delivering real benefits in public sector with e-invoicing

31 Jul 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Public Sector Procurement

Governments in many countries are considering how best to capitalize on the opportunities that electronic invoices present. Some countries like Brazil and Mexico have used the force of law to insist on the use of electronic invoices – other countries have mandated that suppliers to…

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Persuading business to use e-invoicing is like persuading people to recycle

30 Jul 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

It’s clearly the right thing to do. So why isn’t everybody doing it? I’m going to have to come clean. I was, for years, one of those people that was reluctant to recycle. I wasn’t a global warming skeptic or anything like that. My formative…

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EU Commission draft directive reopens the debate on e-invoicing standards

30 Jul 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Question: When is an standard not a standard? Answer: When there’s loads of them. In Europe, there’s more e-invoicing standards than there are languages spoken so, when the EU Commission in it’s draft directive on e-invoicing in public sector calls for more consideration into developing…

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A new dynamic discounting offering enters the market

29 Jul 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Dynamic Discounting, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance

Taulia has a world-class product that gives customers a high return on their cash balances while putting affordable working capital in the hands of suppliers. Dynamic discounting is a simple model and very effective but Taulia have always had one big problem – they only…

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