The Blog - Part 85

AP Automation – the 5 options

30 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-invoicing

We’re delighted to welcome Lars Kjærsgaard as one of our first guest bloggers. Lars is an International Sales Manager & Account Manager at EDB Consulting Group in Denmark and has some great insights into successfully moving toward 100% electronic invoicing. In my mind there exist…

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e-invoicing – one size doesn’t fit all

27 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Electronic Invoicing

When the electronic invoice vendors tell you they can get you to anywhere near 100% electronic invoicing, don’t believe them. And don’t believe the scanning guys either. The truth is, they’re both right – but only if they work together.

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3 reasons why AP automation projects fail and how avoid the mistakes

20 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Electronic Invoicing, Intelligent Data Capture, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process

AP automation has got a bad name for itself in some quarters. You will often hear of projects that meant well but either failed to meet expectations or were abandoned completely. There are many reasons why projects fail such as poor change management or lack…

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Iron Mountain partners with Basware to deliver e-invoicing services

17 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in e-Procurement, Electronic Invoicing, P2P Europe

The press releases from Iron Mountain recently raised a few eyebrows amongst the e-invoicing community. The announcement that they were to set up a 500 person strong unit in Europe to offer e-invoicing services to business was met with some surprise. Well, it seems, according…

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Put the PR back into procurement

16 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Supply Chain, The Rest

I despair sometimes. There’s been a couple of threads in the purchasing and supply chain media recently that seek to justify the role of procurement. There was Peter Smith’s recent spirited defence, (here), of the procurement profession in response to David Cameron’s naive attack calling…

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When is a standard not a standard?

11 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Electronic Invoicing

As many as 40 per cent of larger businesses across Europe are shying away from E-invoicing according to a report published this week by Iron Mountain. This is because of the perceived complexity and lack of standards, according to YouGov who were commissioned to perform…

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Iron Mountain Launch Invoice Unit in Europe

09 Mar 2011 Posted by Pete Loughlin in News

Iron Mountain Inc (IRM.N), which offers companies archiving and online data storage, launched a new invoice management unit on Wednesday, saying it aims to employ 550 people in Europe during the next three years.

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