The Blog - Part 71

In defense of accounts payable

05 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process

I have sometimes described purchase to pay as sitting at the least glamorous end of the business spectrum. At one end is the sex, drug and rock ‘n’ roll world of PR, marketing and sales – life at the coal face where business really happens…

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Travel policies need to be revised as hotel costs show huge increases

02 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Category Management

Business travelers face a huge variance in the price they can expect to pay for a hotel room as prices increase by as much as 37% according to a new survey from Hogg Robinson and travel buyers need to make sure that policies are in…

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Purchasing managers survey makes grim reading

02 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in The Rest

There was an astrophysicist, a physicist and a mathematician on a train traveling from England to Scotland. They see a black sheep in a field as they cross the border. The astrophysicist says “all the sheep in Scotland are black”. The physicist says “some of…

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“e” is in the eye of the beholder

02 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Electronic Invoicing, Intelligent Data Capture, Purchasing Process, Spend Analysis

It’s fascinating. No one would argue that e-procurement wasn’t e-procurement because the final P.O. produced was an emailed pdf. But when it comes to e-invoicing, people get very precious about what is and isn’t an e-invoice. Why is that?

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The debate of the e-invoicing hares

30 Aug 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

One of the problems that the financial institutes have is that they don’t want to get their hands dirty. Of course they recognise that e-invoicing is becoming a game changer but they’ve been reluctant to get too closely involved, preferring instead to sit on the…

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How do you go about building an effective business case for e-invoicing?

29 Aug 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

There is a difficulty in building a business case for e-invoicing. The natural starting point is a traditional paper process and there is an irresistible temptation to begin to count the savings offered by the counting the cost of paper. A sheet of A4, an…

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e-invoicing and interoperability – common sense – but who for?

26 Aug 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

There’s so much debate about interoperability and e-invoicing it’s difficult to know who is on which side of the fence. Indeed, if you look at it for too long the fence itself starts to move. But all will become clear within a couple of years…

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