The Blog - Part 62

e-invoice adoption in the United States – the real story

18 Apr 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Intelligent Data Capture

A torrent of tweets amplified one another over the last few weeks about the apparent enormous current interest in e-invoicing in the United States. Apparently, 42% of companies – a sizable proportion by any standard – are evaluating their electronic invoicing options. They were all…

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Why is everything always a mess?

16 Apr 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Compliance, e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Card

Ask anyone who’s worked in more than one purchasing organization. When it comes to technology, they’re not normally what you would describe as model implementations. Supplier data all over the place, catalogues out of date, Heinz 57 varieties of purchasing system. Purchase to Pay processes…

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The only way is ethics

12 Apr 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software

Jason Busch drew attention to Ariba’s offer earlier this week in a blog post all about Ariba’s annual Las Vegas event. “Use Promo code TWTRCHP when you register for #AribaLIVE & get $250 #CaesarsPalace chips aribalive.com.” Promotional gifts are not unusual

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How dynamic discounting saved millions

11 Apr 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Dynamic Discounting, Supply Chain Finance

I’ve heard more reasons why not to use supply chain finance than I’ve heard good reasons to use it. The problem appears to be that those advocating it are the sales people. They would say that wouldn’t they? And those arguing against it are the…

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Surround strategies – one small step in technology, one giant leap for purchase to pay

10 Apr 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay

When we wrote that e-procurement was getting interesting here we didn’t anticipate that it would be one of the most read Purchasing Insight articles of 2012. There is obviously an appetite amongst purchasing professionals for this topic and now there’s a new report that you…

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Tradeshift launch a cool e-invoicing innovation

28 Mar 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in The Rest

Today we understand that Tradeshift is about to lift the lid on a really neat innovation that will appeal to many small businesses.

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OB10’s facelift and a clue about something more interesting

27 Mar 2012 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance

There has been some criticism of OB10’s user interface and so their users are likely to be pleased at the announcement today of a new version of their portal which, according to the press release, will “enhance the user experience, bring further efficiencies and transparency…

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