Financial Supply Chain Management
30 Jul The purchase to pay burning platform
Posted at 07:22h
in AP Automation, Financial Supply Chain Management, Purchase to Pay, Supply Chain Finance
There are two significant business solutions that are gaining traction globally: AP automation solutions such as e-invoicing and supply chain finance and businesses that overlook these opportunities could pay a very high price.
11 Jun SAP and Ariba – good news for shareholders and competitors alike
The more I look at the proposed acquisition of Ariba by SAP, the less sense it makes. SAP didn't need the functionality. They didn't need the brand. The Ariba shareholders will clearly be pleased to see this deal go through but what, I wonder, would an SAP sales guy be thinking and what would Ariba's competitors be making of it all?17 May What can game theory teach us about Financial Supply Chain Management?
Do you ever wonder why it is that businesses don’t co-operate? Each business operates in isolation making decisions that appear to give themselves the best advantage. But it’s rare that they do get to an optimal position and they are not likely to unless they change the rules of the game.27 Mar OB10’s facelift and a clue about something more interesting
Posted at 18:57h
in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Finance
There has been some criticism of OB10's user interface and so their users are likely to be pleased at the announcement today of a new version of their portal which, according to the press release, will "enhance the user experience, bring further efficiencies and transparency to the purchase-to-pay process, and deliver ground-breaking new services."
07 Mar Alusta – Basware’s get out of jail card
Posted at 15:07h
in AP Automation, Financial Supply Chain Management, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Social Media, Supply Chain Finance
I was excited to read about Alusta last week – the end-to-end framework or platform that Basware have developed for their procure to pay offerings and I was keen to understand a bit more about it when I hooked up with Juha Häkämies VP Market Development, Rowan Lemley, product Marketing Manager and John Webster, VP Global Product Marketing
What is Alusta exactly? Is it the purchase to pay panacea or simply vaporware – a new marketing spin on an old set of products? Actually a bit of both – but in a good way.
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?