The Blog - Part 8

House of HR selects Coupa for pan-European rollout

23 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Coupa, News, P2P Europe, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay

One of Europe’s leading human resources management groups, House of HR, has selected Coupa Software for its Pan European Procure to Pay (P2P) rollout. As one of Europe’s leading human resources management groups with annual sales of more than €700 million, House of HR’s roll-out…

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Is this the most challenging environment for Purchase to Pay?

23 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Process, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process

There’s a common approach to implementing purchase to pay processes and technologies – standardisation; no PO no pay; my way or no way; any colour you like as long as it’s black. Automation and standardisation have become second nature to many but Henry Ford’s aphorism,…

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Webinar – Controlling Spend Without Choking off Growth

20 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Webinars

Rapid business growth can be chaotic, but your financial and purchasing processes can’t afford to be. Can you implement more control without slowing the pace and limiting growth? In this webinar, I explored industry best practices to drive consistent growth while Burke Hill shared his…

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Implementing P2P in a fast moving environment

12 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay

It can be a challenge getting buy in for P2P. If you think about it, who cares about boring back office processes? To secure a P2P budget you’re competing with much sexier projects: marketing projects that will propel your business into the limelight – everyone…

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P2P over IP – How Blockchain will Transform Purchase to Pay

12 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Blockchain, Purchase to Pay

It’s been called the most important, most disruptive technology you’ve never heard of but if you haven’t heard of Blockchain, you’ll have certainly heard of its killer app – bitcoin. Blockchain, the underlying technology of bitcoin, has been attracting a great deal of attention over…

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The history of average and why we need ergonomic business processes

11 Sep 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchasing Process

I’ve learned over many years that when faced with a complex problem there is always a very simple solution that is wrong. There’s a standard approach to everything that will not work most of the time and one size fits all never quite fits. Relying…

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Hammer time!

19 Aug 2016 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement

What am I thinking about? Here’s a couple of clues: Big in 1990s. “Hammer time!” You got it – e-auctions. They were big – very big. They were going to transform procurement and drive prices for everything right down. But 20 years later, what happened…

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