The Blog - Part 5

Paul Watts to lead Coupa in APAC

06 Oct 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Coupa, News

Coupa Software announced this week that Paul Watts will lead the company’s Asia Pacific (APAC) region as vice president of sales. Watts combines more than 20 years of experience based in the APAC region with his extensive knowledge of the enterprise software space. In his…

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e-invoicing to send shock waves through global supply chains

06 Oct 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

The 8th edition of TrustWeaver’s study says disruptive trends in e-invoice compliance will send shock waves through global supply chains. TrustWeaver is a provider of Cloud-based trust and compliance services for invoices and other legally critical electronic documents. This week they have published their 2016…

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Esa Tihilä retires from Basware as Vesa Tykkyläinen takes the helm

28 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Basware, News

Earlier this week Basware announced that Esa Tihilä has stepped down as CEO. He will be succeeded by Vesa Tykkyläinen, who took up his new position on September 26, 2016. At an analyst briefing this week the timing of the move was raised. It must…

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House of HR selects Coupa for pan-European rollout

23 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Coupa, News, P2P Europe, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay

One of Europe’s leading human resources management groups, House of HR, has selected Coupa Software for its Pan European Procure to Pay (P2P) rollout. As one of Europe’s leading human resources management groups with annual sales of more than €700 million, House of HR’s roll-out…

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Is this the most challenging environment for Purchase to Pay?

23 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Process, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process

There’s a common approach to implementing purchase to pay processes and technologies – standardisation; no PO no pay; my way or no way; any colour you like as long as it’s black. Automation and standardisation have become second nature to many but Henry Ford’s aphorism,…

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Webinar – Controlling Spend Without Choking off Growth

20 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Webinars

Rapid business growth can be chaotic, but your financial and purchasing processes can’t afford to be. Can you implement more control without slowing the pace and limiting growth? In this webinar, I explored industry best practices to drive consistent growth while Burke Hill shared his…

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Implementing P2P in a fast moving environment

12 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay

It can be a challenge getting buy in for P2P. If you think about it, who cares about boring back office processes? To secure a P2P budget you’re competing with much sexier projects: marketing projects that will propel your business into the limelight – everyone…

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