The Blog - Part 72

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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Do we need new standards for e-invoicing?

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

You know how useful standards are when you plug in an electrical appliance – the plug fits the socket. So it figures that we need an electronic invoice standard. We need the invoice plug to fit the AP socket. Right? Wrong! Count the number of…

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When a picture paints a thousand words – explaining e-invoicing without sending people to sleep

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

Need a compelling reason to move to e-invoicing? Building a business case or developing a communication plan for it? Or just trying to evangelise electronic invoicing around your organisation? It’s so much easier if you can distill down the complexity into easily digestible succinct messages….

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What’s the point of purchase to pay?

09 Aug 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay

I wonder if it’s just me that recalls that embarrassing teenage episode when one of your friends declares their new membership of the biker club. Proudly carrying their full face helmet, they don’t volunteer that they haven’t actually managed to save enough money for the…

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