The Blog - Part 43

Tradeshift – the way it looks from the Intuit side of the fence

05 Mar 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, Electronic Invoicing

In the fast moving space that is e-invoicing, like many other areas of business, the impressive announcements of vendors can become tiresome. Claiming customers that everyone claims – promises of new approaches and ludicrous claims about the use of bleeding edge technology that turn out…

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Coca Cola and Coupa – wall to wall P2P

01 Mar 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

Over the years I’ve had some great ideas. I’ve had some pretty dumb ideas too. I’ve followed through on some – both the good ones and the dumb ones but most, I have to admit, have been left as just ideas. But it still gives…

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Centralized procurement and the costs of savings

01 Mar 2013 Posted by Ian Burdon in Public Sector Procurement

UK Government procurement reform is being “stifled by departments” being tardy in moving to new central contracts based on large-scale aggregation of demand. Because of a lack of enforcement of the use of centralized purchasing of goods and services maximum savings are not being achieved….

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Purchase to Pay best practice – the cost of ignoring it

21 Feb 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, Purchase to Pay

How much does it cost to implement purchase to pay best practice? Having spoken to many senior finance and procurement people, I get the impression that many of them think more about how much they can save by ignoring it. Sure, they value the basics…

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Purchasing Card – the P2P Nuke option

14 Feb 2013 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchasing Card

It is depressing that whenever there is conflict brewing somewhere in the world – a political or diplomatic tension that escalates to point where otherwise peaceful countries contemplate military action – there’s always someone, somewhere who says “Nuke ‘em”. The Nuke option – the answer…

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