12 Apr Enterprise software – be careful what you wish for
I have evangelised cloud solutions for many years and whether it’s Ariba, Coupa or any other cloud solution, they are built from established best practice – “best practice out of the box”...
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07 Apr Procurement Pandemonium
Mistakes were the inevitable consequence of a pragmatic decision to override most of the normal procurement rules. But we could have expected more of our politicians than to seize the opportunity to line the pockets of their friends and supporters....
03 Mar Electronic Invoicing – the 4-cornered model explained
The e-invoicing ‘industry’ has been banging on about the 4-cornered model for years. But after years of whistling in the wind it is time to call it out for what it is – bleedin’ obvious. ...
03 Feb E-Invoicing in the Digital Age
The E-Invoicing Exchange Summit Americas is the only forum dedicated to E-Invoicing in the Americas. The conference will be held in Miami from May 9 to 11, 2022....
27 Jan Taulia Acquired by SAP
SAP has announced it has agreed to buy a majority stake in privately held U.S. fintech firm Taulia as the German business software group seeks to expand its presence in supply-chain financing and working capital management....
20 Sep Making sense out of chaos
Even good, clean data reflects the uneven and imperfect world that we work in. It’s not good to have holes in your data but it not natural to have none. Uneven data can be difficult to read but perfectly straight lines only exist in theory....
16 Dec Has the Catalogue era ended?
The world has changed and there’s no going back. We always knew that this day might come, many felt it was predictable – even inevitable. But now that it happened, people are questioning how they will cope without the IKEA catalogue....