Imagine having complete control over your direct and indirect purchase orders – covering billions of spend and affecting forecasting and sales in a huge way. EBG | Network are happy to introduce a series of webinars focusing on taking further control over the buyer and suppliers side of the financial supply chain, starting with ABB […]
If you have a CFO or CPO in front of you, you cannot be sure how they perceive procure to pay. Some focus on the end tail such as the invoices and some on the (sort of) front end i.e procurement. Still quite few oversee the entire flow from source to pay or procure to […]
Something is cooking, the traditional “moving-what-used-to-be-paper”-documents around in an organization is transforming into ways to use supplier and buyer relationships, processes and pure cash in more efficient and more valuable ways. To the surface comes realizing that many processes cut through organizations leaving room for errors and missed opportunities. Basware is one of the […]
It’s nothing new. The way people interact influence and control the ways in which businesses do business. The question might be what do businesses do with the possibilities at hand in order to create innovation and not only follow behind. Innovation and wage arbitrage does not by default go hand in hand. If wage arbitrage […]
In a recent interview with Alexander Reay from ITOSDA, a non profit organization driven by peers within the IT development area, he told about his view on IT development and CIO challenges. There are hardly any parts of any business that is not IT dependent or IT driven. Yet IT is in many cases fighting […]
As the demand to cut wage arbitrage and minimize administration costs keep growing, solutions like cloud services grow and will keep growing. Low cost, flexibility and agility may be reasons why cloud services are growing fast. Services in the cloud is of course here to stay and there are matters to consider when signing an […]
It is always a pleasure listening to consultants with a clear holistic approach to procurement and finance development. Tom Bangemann at The Hackett Group is one of those who are able to showcase why procurement is getting more strategic interest than before, why wage arbitrage and short term cost reductions will soon come to an […]
It is not a new topic but it has been more and more discussed – even in procurement – what should you do yourself and what should you outsource? If procurement is only seen as an administrative service (as accounts payable, wrongly, for so many years has been seen as) then the math is probably […]
What importance does SLAs, service level agreements, have? Importance to those buying or selling the service, to those using the service? In a world that has become SLA driven, and not necessary in the best of ways, the key note given by Kate Vitasek and Henric Häggquist at Source to Pay Summit 2014 was very […]
“Negotiation has, for decades, been viewed as a zero-sum game, with the success for one party being at the expense of the other.” The quote comes from a Forbes article by Tim Cummins – President of IACCM, se the entire article >>here Tim states in the article that the market trends are changing towards more […]