Insights

24 May

Posted at 09:03h in e-Procurement, e-Procurement Software, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Software, Supply Chain by
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In the facebook age, when the digital natives - those who don't remember a time before the internet - are emerging as the new generation of business leaders, thinkers and politicians, it can be easy to forget how today's business technology evolved. And it's easy to dismiss it. But knowing a little more than best practice and understanding why we do stuff the way we do is enlightening and helps inform us about the future evolution of business technology.

24 May

Posted at 04:06h in Dynamic Discounting, Financial Supply Chain Management, News by
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Supply chain finance generally and dynamic discounting in particular has been has been featured quite heavily in Purchasing Insight. It's not an entirely new concept but in the last year or so it has gained a great deal of traction as a means of getting a real and significant commercial return by being clever with the way invoices are settled and this week, Purchasing Insight is delighted to welcome Taulia, the leading dynamic discounting solution provider, as its first sponsor.

22 May

Posted at 16:49h in Dynamic Discounting, e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing, Financial Supply Chain Management, Intelligent Data Capture by
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Purchasing Insight logoWe all know that manual processes are inefficient. We all know that the use of paper based business processes is increasingly becoming an anachronism in the 21st century and we all know that AP automation is a good idea. But have you ever stopped to consider how much money is being wasted by not taking action?

09 May

Posted at 13:53h in Purchase to Pay by
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The spotlight has fallen on the paper invoice as an entirely unnecessary source of green house gases in recent years and the rapid evolution of the regulations in many parts of the world is removing the barriers to change to electronic invoicing. But the paper invoice is only part of the story and it seems that the purchase to pay function is one of the worst culprits when it comes to the unnecessary use of paper.

08 May

Posted at 04:14h in Financial Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain by
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I'm one of the worst culprits and I hate myself for it. Finding yourself wrapping up in pretentious management consultant speak is an occupational hazard. I wouldn't talk about "leveraging my core competencies" or "disintermediating my financial supply chain" in an informal conversation with friends and family. And it would raise an eyebrow at home, to say the least, if I mentioned that we'd been "sweating our assets" at work. So why do I do it?

07 May

Posted at 03:26h in e-invoicing, Electronic Invoicing by
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When is an e-invoice not an e-invoice? 10 years ago it was simple. It was clear that a "true" or "pure" electronic invoice was a structured computer-to-computer message. The supplier's computer would send an invoice message in a format that the customer's computer could read. An email with a Word document or an excel file attached was not an electronic invoice and worse, a pdf image of a paper invoice was nowhere near an e-invoice. These were superficial attempts to tick the e-invoicing box. They weren't true electronic invoices. But in recent years the line between what is and what is not an e-invoice has become blurred and the "purity" of the "true" electronic invoice is becoming it's own worst enemy.