The Blog - Part 92

Purchase to Pay KPIs – Why Are You Only Counting Half of Them?

23 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay

It is said that only half of advertising actually works, and you can never be sure which half. Better safe than sorry I guess. You don’t want to cut your advertising budget in half if you lose the half that works. But what about the…

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Dynamic Discounting – What To Do With All That Spare Cash

21 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Dynamic Discounting

The Wall Street Journal yesterday high lighted a very interesting trend that is emerging as the global economy considers how sustained the modest recovery is likely to be. Like victims of some great natural disaster, peering through the rubble of what was once a thriving…

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Dolphin’s Accounts Payable Solution – Now With Dynamic Discounting

12 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Dynamic Discounting, Electronic Invoicing

Dolphin and Taulia today announce a strategic partnership to unveil a fully integrated solution that includes discount management, vendor portal and an accounts payable automation and optimization solution for the SAP environment. The SAP-certified solution enables corporations to reduce total spend, improve supplier relationships and…

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Spend Analysis – the Key to Managing Through A Recession

09 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Procurement Best Practices, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Spend Analysis, Vendor Risk Management

What gets measured gets managed. It’s a slightly tired truism but it’s very relevant to Purchase to Pay and, sadly, often overlooked. Most P2P (Purchase to Pay) projects are justified as a means to reduce cost. They introduce efficient processes that allows purchasing payment and…

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P2P – The Uncomfortable Truth Revealed by Basware Research

08 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, The Rest

Companies across the globe are missing out on the opportunity to make huge financial savings by introducing efficiencies in accounts payable. There’s nothing new in that. But it’s not just the opportunity to save cash by using P2P efficiencies that is being missed. Current practices…

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Global Sourcing – Think Global. Act Local

06 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Global Sourcing, Vendor Risk Management

The supply chain world is changing. The disruption in Europe recently caused by the grounding of aircraft as a result of the volcano in Iceland; the soaring labor costs in Asia and the far East; the green and ethical agenda that has taken hold in…

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Purchase to Pay – So You Think You’re World Class?

05 Jul 2010 Posted by Pete Loughlin in Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, The Rest

Whatever stage of P2P maturity your organisation is at, it is almost certainly not world class. You see, you might be good. You might even be very good but you’re never as good as you could be. That’s why it’s good sometimes to know how…

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