The Blog - Part 71

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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The 21st century e-invoicing casualties

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

Kodak. “Who?” Exactly! When you can see the tide coming in you do something about it. The problem for some businesses is that they don’t recognize the tide. This happened to Kodak, the photographic print manufacturer. They produced – still do produce – photographic film…

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UK public sector – it’s time to look again at e-invoicing

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

It’s been over a decade since the e-business machine was mobilised and it began to evangelise the use of the internet to deliver supply chain efficiencies. There were some big claims made about how much public sector organisations could save – some of which were…

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