The Blog - Part 61

E-procurement’s second wind – one of the most boring things in the world is about to get interesting (1)

03 Feb 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement

We were promised hover cars and vacations on the Moon. What did we get? Luggage on wheels! The new millennium wasn’t what it was billed as and it’s a sad fact of life that reality rarely lives up to the promise. E-procurement solution promises are…

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e-invoicing market has peaked according to new research

03 Feb 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, The Rest

The number of e-invoicing operators in Europe has now peaked and we’ll see a reduction in numbers from this year according to Billentis.

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Reverse factoring becoming the norm in Spain

02 Feb 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Supply Chain Finance

Driven by unprecedented economic conditions and government intervention to help small business, reverse factoring is rapidly becoming the de facto form of payment in Spain.

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World Map of e-invoicing – Asia Pacific

30 Jan 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

This is the fourth in the series The World Map of e-invoicing focusing on Asia Pacific. With many aspects of the economies and cultures in Asia and the far East, it is a mistake to make direct comparisons with the West. While the eastern economies…

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Sex, SOPA and Socialism – the copyright conundrum

25 Jan 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Insights

Copyright has been in the news lots lately. Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s patents, Kodak’s patent fire sale and of course, closer to home, Tradeshift’s Christian Lanng’s attack on OB10 over one of their copyrights. Then there’s SOPA which everyone reading this needs to be concerned…

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3 reasons why Basware’s acquisition of First Business Post is big news

23 Jan 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Last week, Basware announced the acquisition of First Business Post, one of the most important players in the e-invoicing market in Germany. I didn’t see much noise made about this which surprised me. This is big news. It’s big news for three reasons.

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Apple lifts the lid on its supply chain

20 Jan 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Supply Chain

It’s been my guilty secret for a few years now. I buy Apple stuff. Why the guilt? Because of Apple’s reputation about their supply practices. The reputation says that Apple products are built in factories in far flung places where working conditions are so poor…

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