EBG Play: The promise in “e” is the promise of any future strategy
Quite often discussions about e-procurement and e-invoicing tends to focus around - the e - rather than the process itself. E as in electronic as in systems and IT. It is however clear that "e" is more of "every business" and "evolving businesses". In this interview we "met up" with Jason Busch, the founder of Spend Matters to ask about trends and the future in e-procurement and e-invoicing, or shall we say procurement and invoicing processes. What came up: - Strategies need to incorporate process visibility - Strategies need to be about people and process - Cloud meaning different things depending on development level - Top performing CPOs and CFOs need to "get it" when it comes to how technology enable strategies - Data visibility … [Read More...]
EBG Play: It’s all about intelligence in electronic messages
The constant debate about how to increase e-invoicing as the pre-dominant way of sending and receiving e-invoices is exhausting. Why? Because too often the debate still is about moving a document from paper, to scanning to electronic and then the essence in “e” is forever lost in translation. Quite a few large buying organisations have [...]
EBG Play: Google fast, social media behaviour influencing P2P processes
Will it be world domination by SAP? Many are the organisations that are using SAP, many are the SAP versions used by these companies and many are the headaches experienced by these companies when trying to use SAP in the best way possible. We are looking at a second wave of process development, if nothing [...]
EBG Play: Bruno Koch interview on the market development and the moving on beyond OCR-scanning
In the market of e-invoicing he is one of the most well known persons. Nations listen to him, organisations purchase his market reports and his yearly congress has been seen as a must in the industry for a long time. In this interview we speak to Bruno Koch, Billentis, about market trends and development and [...]
RT: Successful e-invoicing, the Danish way: free, open and online | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional
Just recently back from an interview tour and ending up discussing the differences and similarities between norwegians, swedes and danish people (we never got to finnish people). Danish people are more direct while swedes tend to circle around a subject, looking at it from different angles and finally reaching a common understanding. One guy and [...]
EBG Play: What’s going on in EESPA, the EU and banking sector?
There is a man who is involved in them all. His name is Charles Bryant and below EBG interviews him learning more about his view on the e-invoicing market and development. The talk is about EESPA, a quite large group of operators actually meeting and greeting and trying to find interoperability terms. Also, the work [...]
EBG Play: The hen and the egg or was it SCF and e-invoicing?
What came first? The hen or the egg? The need for an e-invoice or the need to look over the financial supply chain? In this interview we “meet up” with Pete Loughlin to talk about supply chain financing, what enable what and what impact the need for proper processes from procure to pay have in [...]
RT: Intersecting Procurement and Finance: Top Trends for 2013
Ever heard “thats finances headache” or “thats all about procurement” even though you know it is interlinked? We hear it all the time, both from end users and professionals such as consultants and system vendors. Because of that it is even more thrilling when a blog focusing on spend management mentions trends where procurement and [...]
RT: Purchase to Pay best practice – the cost of ignoring it
According to the research, for a medium sized company handling 250,000-500,000 invoices per annum, nearly 80 people are required just to handle exceptions. That could amount to (at an average cost per FTE of $50,000) about $4 million per annum. Arguing why put any effort in to looking at P2P processes has been a challenge, [...]
Last chance for early booking discount 16/2 – hope to see you!
There is constant proof of our angle on procurement, invoice management and payment optimation being a future forward angle. There are different ways to push the subject of P2P processes, we have chosen to do it cross-functional and cross-industrial. At least two functions meet and exchange experiences, two or more functions that hold great value [...]
When to Stop Using the Cloud Word – well?
This is an interesting question. All is cloud – nothing is Cloud. What’s the definition of Cloud? Who is interested in the Cloud? We work with business managers and the word Cloud doesn’t occur. At all. We call our network “e-Business”, but we don’t focus on the “e” other than means to improve “business”. And, [...]
LinkedIn: Looking at the internal customer in stakeholder management
How to perform most wisely when wanting to convince internal and external stakeholders to act as stated in the latest management board statement is a multimillion question. Enforcing change in behaviour have been a commonly used tactic, especially when talking about transaction automation, internal control and supplier motivation. Needless to say that tactic have had [...]
LinkedIn: Is one keystone to success of change missing?
”What’s in it for me?” In every sucessful change management strategy that little sentence is prepared for. Thinking that change in behaviour is possible without it is vane. However, a little note to that very important understanding: What’s in it for me equals what’s in it for me in any relationship – between manager and [...]
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