The Blog - Part 72

The significance of Germany’s e-invoicing move

23 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing

Germany is the biggest market within the biggest economic region in the world and thanks to the German’s decision on e-invoicing, the cost of doing business in the EU has just started to drop. The news as reported by Christian Lanng is perfectly timed. It…

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SAP to acquire Crossgate

22 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in News

Adding to its portfolio of solutions that create rapid value for customers worldwide, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced its intent to acquire business-to-business (B2B) integration provider Crossgate. A leading provider of hosted B2B integration services, Crossgate enables companies to fully integrate and network with…

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AP automation – What is the cost of inefficiency?

20 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in AP Automation, Dynamic Discounting

You have a set of accounts payable processes that would be comfortable in a 19th century setting. Pieces of parchment passed from from the vendor documenting the agreed transaction. An original signature scrawled with indelible ink pen proving the authenticity of the document. And the…

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e-invoicing is a great solution – but what’s the problem?

16 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing

I get frustrated at the debates on e-invoicing. The ones that go on and on endlessly about which is the right standard to employ. What is and is not an electronic invoice? Who knows best about what to deploy where? My digital certificate is bigger…

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Dos and don’ts of e-invoicing

15 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in The Rest

I’m really looking forward to speaking on the dos and don’ts of e-invoicing at the 5th annual P2P conference in Amsterdam next week. It’s a relatively small conference but some of Europe’s leading P2P practitioners will be there either speaking or as delegates.

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Purchase to Pay – an engine room of growth

15 Sep 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Dynamic Discounting, Financial Supply Chain Management, Purchase to Pay, Working Capital Management

You think purchase to pay is a back office function? e-invoicing is a technical innovation? AP automation an incremental improvement to financial supply chain management? And you wonder why nothing ever gets achieved. P2P is as boring as you make it. The reality is though,…

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