Imagine having to comply with 170 or so country specifications when communicating paperless with customers and suppliers. That was the case when Alcatel Lucent some five years ago chose to use their own paperless platform rather than buying an existing one. Since then the market has changed. And what better way to prove that so […]
EBG | Insight: From transactions to financial value ad
EBG first met with Pagero back in 2008. The era of e-invoicing for the masses was there – accounts payable managers were looking for ways to make those suppliers send e-invoices, the Norwegian government was looking for an approach to enforce e-invoicing to government authorities and the Danish government had already enforced business to government […]
EBG | Insight: The promise in “e” is the promise of any future strategy
First published in May 2013 – this interview is still valid and we’d like to push it again. 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 […]
EBG | Insight: A supplier approach to e-invoicing adding value to the customer
When talking about e-invoicing it usually comes from a buyer perspective. Receiving an electronic invoice in its basics mean cutting manual handling costs. In the long run standardization and automation mean business control. But what about the suppliers point of view? Even though it is not necessary to actually send an e-invoice in order for […]
EBG Play: Palette interview how some say procurement and some say invoices
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 […]
EBG | Insight: Basware interview about e-invoicing and e-procurement trends
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 […]
EBG Play: ReadSoft about the annual Workflow conference in Sweden
It is time for the annual workflow conference held by ReadSoft Sweden. On the 21st of May business professionals meet up to share and discuss possibilities and challenges developing automated procurement and finance processes. EBG will be there and so can you! Until the 12th of May registering is free of charge, just go to […]
EBG Podcast: It won’t kill you not to send an e-invoice today
Down to the final interview from the actual EXPP venue, here comes an interview with Jonas Edlund at Pagero. Pagero being a Swedish company taking a holistic view on buyer-supplier messages and transactions – the presentation in the interview getting lost in the conference noise. We jump straight into talking about challenges in the market. […]
EBG Podcast: Interview with Taulia about dynamic discounting and common misunderstandings
One of the “buzz”-words within the “e” industry is dynamic discounting. Another supply chain financing. We met Taulia two years back in Barcelona and the buzz was not so loud, however everyone were speaking of value added services as the future within e-invoicing for one. It sounds ridiculously simple – the one who needs the […]
EBG Podcast: OB10 on touchless processes and enabled financial value chains
At the EXPP we caught up with OB10 and Gary Benson, VP Corporate Development at OB10. There is a lot written about OB10 these days and there is a lot happening in the “e” industry at large. Some has got to do with some buying others and a lot has got to do with real […]