e-invoicing
01 Mar Basware’s new purchase to pay platform – they’ve been peeking at my wish list
Posted at 14:52h
in AP Automation, e-invoicing, e-Procurement, Financial Supply Chain Management, P2P Europe, Purchase to Pay, SaaS, Social Media, Supplier Networks, Supply Chain Finance
Basware have just made a very interesting announcement and launched Alusta, a “cloud-based platform for business-to-business transaction collaboration." According to their announcement yesterday, Alusta (Finnish for "platform") provides "open, centralized access to all Basware services via a scalable, secure, open collaborative commerce ecosystem for buying and supplying organizations of every size and location."
If it lives up to half of the hype, this will be a truly impressive platform.
Alusta isn’t ground breaking. It isn’t even new thinking but what it promises is to bring together a wide set of leading edge tools technologies and techniques to create a purchase to pay platform that could be world beating.
That’s the promise anyway. So what’s it got that’s so impressive?
24 Feb Supply chain democracy relies on your vote
Posted at 11:25h
in AP Automation, Dynamic Discounting, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance
Today, we're delighted to welcome a guest post from Lars Rolf Jacobsen - Financial Solutions Manager at Tradeshift.
Size matters. Throughout history, it has always been the case that the bigger company in a relationship has all the power. And financial transactions are no exception to this rule.
But the rise of the internet has leveled the playing field in some aspects of business. Now, any small company can use Skype to communicate for free with suppliers and buyers across the world. Whole workforces can be recruited and managed through the web, meaning that talent is cheaper and easier to control. And with e-commerce, any company can market and sell a product to a global audience.
22 Feb OB10 partners with Buzón E in Mexico
OB10 have just announced an important partnership with Buzón E, a Mexican government accredited e-Invoicing solution provider. This strengthens OB10's service in terms of both compliance and local presence. According to the press release "The partnership with Buzón E will offer OB10’s depth of knowledge in purchase-to-pay automation and flexible technology to more organizations operating in Mexico, delivering improved payment performance and guaranteed compliance with suppliers."17 Feb e-invoicing raised to the power of free
Posted at 11:29h
in AP Automation, Dynamic Discounting, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management
Let's get something straight at the outset. I'm not about to suggest that users of e-invoicing networks will want to use them to play Farmville. But what I can see is that the transactional platforms will become free to use as service providers offer other value added services and I want to explain why.
10 Feb e-day in the Emerald Isle
It was a great day for Ireland and a great day for Celtrino, the Irish supply chain document automation people. Yesterday was e-day, the day that the launch was announced of Ireland's the first Government and public sector e-Invoicing project. It's a pilot and the objective is to establish a proven, interoperable network of trusted service providers capable to accepting, routing and delivering e-Invoices.10 Feb The Complete World Map of e-invoicing
Over the last few weeks we've been exploring the diverse interpretation of laws and the different approaches that governments have taken to electronic invoicing around the world. We've presented it as a series of maps with high level commentary on some of the details in...