Purchase to Pay Process

Purchase to Pay can sometimes be a hard sell. In a highly siloed organization where purchasing and finance see themselves as different species, getting buy in to an end to end holistic approach to purchasing is virtually impossible. But without the holistic approach some serious stuff goes wrong. Below are to top 5 problems that occur when purchase to pay best practice is ignored.

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 accounting...

Purchase to Pay, P2P and Dynamic DiscountingWhen Alexander Graham Bell, said "Watson, come here! I want to see you", little did he suspect that in the 21st century, less than 150 years after he began his experiments, the telephone would be so ubiquitous that even in parts of Africa where there is no running water, there would be full cell phone coverage. And at that time, in about 1873, the "CFO" was a man in a tall hat with a quill in his hand in charge of a team of accounts clerks laboriously scratching numbers into leather bound ledgers.