The Blog - Part 71

Making sense of invoice management

17 Oct 2011 Posted by Simon Shorthose in e-invoicing

We’re delighted to welcome Simon Shorthose, MD Readsoft UK, as a guest contributor If you had to choose one overarching theme that sums up business in recent years it would be the focus on cost reduction. And rightly so, cutting the flab and improving the…

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Looking under the hood of the Tradeshift enigma

14 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance

Tradeshift are an enigma. Their revenue model may have you perplexed. Their tagline “Shift Happens” might raise an eyebrow and their animation for the launch of their Instant Payment offering – well is isn’t exactly Pixar. But don’t let it fool you. Behind the enigmatic…

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Tradeshift introduce instant payments

11 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in News

Tradeshift, the business-to-business social network, has today announced a new Instant Payments service. Instant Payments will allow businesses – and particularly SMEs – to receive instant payment for invoices approved through the platform. Companies will benefit from interest rates significantly lower than alternative funding options…

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A return to business class? About time too!

11 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Category Management, Travel Spend

Spend on business class airline tickets and high end hotels is showing signs of an increase. And about time too! What’s happening to travel spend? What does this mean for travel managers and does it say anything about longer term business confidence?

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e-invoicing standards are the reason why we’re getting nowhere

07 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

E-invoicing isn’t the first victim of standards and it won’t be the last. B2B standards, designed to guide businesses down the right path, to allow disparate organizations to inter-operate, don’t work. They have the opposite effect. They are self defeating. They attempt to create a…

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Steve Jobs

07 Oct 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in The Rest

I can’t match the moving tributes that have been made to Steve Jobs but it’s difficult to let the passing of someone like Steve Jobs go without sharing a thought or two.

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e-invoicing and the automation of fraud revisited

27 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Recently we wrote about how the introduction of e-invoicing could allow fraud to be automated alongside AP processes. The previous article is here. And in case anyone was in any doubt about how prevalent fraud can be, we thought it would be interesting to provide…

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