The Blog - Part 36

Ariba’s supplier fee model and the killer anomalies.

15 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing

I don’t write much about Ariba. We don’t say much about SAP or Oracle either. They’re old news and there isn’t much to say that hasn’t been said before. Besides, there are better analysts like Jason Busch who understand the intricacies of the functionality of…

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Tradeshift and Invoiceware International partner to deliver compliant e-invoice validation in Latin America

15 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

e-invoicing sounds to most like a boring bit of back office business but in Latin America, the issue of e-invoicing and in particular the issue of getting it right is a little bit more on the edge. Getting its wrong can have serious and dramatic…

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Fundamentally, why would you implement e-procurement?

08 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process, Spend Analysis

There are lots of reasons to do e-procurement but most of the stated reasons are not the real reason at all. Indeed, most of the reasons stated for implementing e-procurement are impossible to deliver. But there is one very good reason to implement e-procurement and…

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Data visualization and the art of simplicity

07 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay, Spend Analysis

I have quite a bit in common with John Webster, VP Global Product Marketing at Basware. We both grew up in the North West of England, we’re both P2P professionals and, curiously, we both have exactly the same book on our coffee tables at home.

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The broken promises of e-procurement

02 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process

I’ve been working with e-procurement in a wide variety of guises and in many different organizations for nearly 20 years. Before the widespread use of the internet there were some proprietary on-line purchasing systems that were, by and large, the same as a modern incarnation…

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e-invoicing and the unintended consequences of a mandate

01 May 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Industry experts are increasingly calling for an e-invoicing mandate. In the USA as well as Europe, disappointing adoption rates over the last decade look rather embarrassing when compared to the dramatic success in Latin America where the use of electronic invoices for many businesses is…

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There’s no such thing as win-win – especially in supply chain finance

24 Apr 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance

When anyone tells you something is a win-win, they’re usually lying. Where there’s a winner there’s always a loser. But sometimes it does look very compelling. Supply Chain Finance (SCF) offers the possibility of a supplier getting paid early, lowering their cost of working capital…

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