The Blog - Part 33

Tradeshift announce a $3 billion fund to support small business

10 Sep 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance, Working Capital Management

I’d grown accustomed to the sunshine that we’ve enjoyed in the UK for most of the summer and yesterday, ill-equipped for normal British weather, I got soaked, literally to the skin, in an unexpectedly heavy rain shower in London. Summer’s almost gone and there’s definitely…

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The next evolutionary phase of e-invoicing

06 Sep 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

When it comes to electronic trading, the Latin Americans, most notably Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile, put the so-called developed countries to shame in terms of their ambition. While the Europeans continue to support business processes hardly changed since they were developed by the spice…

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OB10 listing – it gets even more interesting

04 Sep 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Spend Analysis

The news that OB10 is to go public broke last night – actually a little prematurely – but now it’s official and Tungsten and OB10 have announced their intentions. I spent 20 minutes on the phone with a delighted Luke McKeever, OB10’s CEO, earlier today…

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The e-invoicing world to be set alight as OB10 gets snapped up

04 Sep 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

The deal isn’t done yet but that could change as early as later today. It seems that Tungsten, an investment vehicle established by Edmund Truell, founder of private equity firm Duke Street Capital, has OB10 in it sights as part of a strategy to acquire…

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e-invoicing – self-guided enrollment  

02 Sep 2013 Posted by Jo Harris in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

In the final extract from The Supplier Engagement Handbook, Jo Harris shares best practices that will help ensure that all of suppliers – not just those with the highest volumes – adopt e-invoicing. Self-guided enrollment   To roll out e-invoicing successfully, all suppliers must participate,…

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e-Invoicing – high-touch enrollment of suppliers

27 Aug 2013 Posted by Jo Harris in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

It’s not easy to find real best practice advice for e-Invoicing and supplier enrollment. This extract from The Supplier Engagement Handbook describes recommended steps on how to offer suppliers that send a high volume of invoices or have complex organizations a more consultative enrollment approach….

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Electronic invoicing in Latin America

25 Aug 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

From outside of Latin America, electronic invoicing in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and the others, seems complex and mysterious. What information that is available to understand it is mostly in Spanish or Portuguese. For those of us who are a little rusty on our Spanish…

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