Procurement Software Archives

10 Jan Build or Buy decision tree for Purchase to Pay

Posted at 12:58h in Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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Purchase to pay technology is sophisticated and mature. Building from scratch or cannibalising a solution designed to meet the needs of something else is never going to end well....

08 Mar Access Group acquires procurement software business

Posted at 15:55h in Procurement Software by Pete Loughlin

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There was an interesting announcement this week in the Purchasing Software world. The Access Group, a UK provider to growing mid-market businesses, has announced the completion of the acquisition of Procure Wizard who specialise in providing procurement solutions for the UK hospitality industry....

09 Aug Are e-procurement solutions necessary anymore?

Posted at 10:20h in Blockchain, Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchase to Pay Process, Purchasing Process by Pete Loughlin

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In the early days of e-procurement - the 1990s - the solutions that were emerging were transformational and to understand why, we need to recall what the procurement landscape was like then....

06 Jan Selecting a P2P vendor – assessing the price model

Posted at 09:32h in Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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When it comes to price models for Purchase to Pay solutions, there are as many as there are providers. Some charge per transaction either as a flat fee or as a percentage of the value of the transaction. Some charge suppliers, some don’t and some...

13 Oct Rob Bernshteyn and the Coupa Coup

Posted at 15:56h in Coupa, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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It was quite a coup (pun intended). It was by no means a certainty that Coupa’s initial public offering would be so successful but I think even the most optimistic would not have dared to expect how things played out. At the 11th hour the...

23 Sep House of HR selects Coupa for pan-European rollout

Posted at 13:40h in Coupa, News, P2P Europe, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay by Pete Loughlin

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One of Europe's leading human resources management groups, House of HR, has selected Coupa Software for its Pan European Procure to Pay (P2P) rollout....

11 Sep The history of average and why we need ergonomic business processes

Posted at 06:36h in Procurement Best Practices, Procurement Process, Procurement Software, Purchase to Pay, Purchasing Process by Pete Loughlin

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I’ve learned over many years that when faced with a complex problem there is always a very simple solution that is wrong. There’s a standard approach to everything that will not work most of the time and one size fits all never quite fits. Relying...

Procurement Software

10 Jan Build or Buy decision tree for Purchase to Pay

08 Mar Access Group acquires procurement software business

09 Aug Are e-procurement solutions necessary anymore?

06 Jan Selecting a P2P vendor – assessing the price model

13 Oct Rob Bernshteyn and the Coupa Coup

23 Sep House of HR selects Coupa for pan-European rollout

11 Sep The history of average and why we need ergonomic business processes

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