Archive for the ‘Procurement’ Category
7 insights into how CFOs see procurement
Posted by: susiewest on: April 26, 2012
- In: P2P | Procurement
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How do CFOs perceive the procurement function? Is there a beautiful connection, or do relations continue to be prickly? And why do we continue to talk about this topic like it really, really matters? Because it really… really matters. At sharedserviceslink.com we insist on talking about the relations between procurement and finance for many reasons, [...]
e-Invoicing Europe: one year on
Posted by: Sandra on: July 5, 2011
- In: Conference | e-Invoicing | Electronic invoicing | P2P | Procurement | Technology | Working Capital
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Goodness! What a morning at e-Invoicing Europe 2011 in London. In four hours we’ve covered ten success factors for e-invoicing; explored the future e-invoicing landscape from the perspectives of the European Union, government policies, and public and private-sector adoption; and had practitioner insight from Orange Business Services, easyJet, Kimberly Clark, Finncontainers and BBC. This is [...]
Toning up P2P – what we heard on day one
Posted by: Sandra on: June 23, 2011
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To sum up the discussions that took place at Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing in London yesterday, here are our top take aways: If you want to drive change in P2P, don’t think you can do it alone – finance and procurement need to work together Establish process owners who are [...]
Making automation stick
Posted by: Sandra on: June 22, 2011
It’s lunchtime at Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing and we’ve already explored a plethora of streamlining approaches for P2P functions and, importantly what you need to do to make them stick. American Express shared the three key themes from this year’s European Indirect Spend Management Study. With detailed information from 162 [...]
Becoming one: finance and procurement
Posted by: susiewest on: May 10, 2011
Fusion 2011 in Orlando is under way. Three singers in suits and ties sang about the hilarities of being an AP manager well before 9am, getting 2,000 delegates in the mood to look in the mirror but retain a sense of humour. The event so far has largely been about two things: becoming one and [...]
Programme management key to e-invoicing success at HP
Posted by: Sandra on: April 7, 2011
Hewlett Packard is the world’s largest technology company. Not only does it sell IT hardware and related services, but it also lives and breathes the benefits. And its finance function is no exception. Through its hugely successful e-invoicing programme, it has converted 1.8m of its invoices to electronic. Speaking on our latest sharedserviceslink.com webinar, Peter [...]
Finance and procurement: the case for collaboration
Posted by: Sandra on: December 21, 2010
It’s nothing new; we talk about it all the time: finance and procurement need to work hand in hand if accounts payable automation is going to work. Listening to our speakers’ presentations and their lists of critical success factors at the recent AP Automation summit, their messages were no different. The question is, if it’s [...]
Shared services for local government: our top take aways
Posted by: susiewest on: October 4, 2010
We ran our ‘Finance shared services for local government’ masterclass in September 2010. I chaired the same event in January 2009 and saw a stark difference in the mood of the room last month. What was the difference? It was clear from the organisations present that their finance-process maturity is far more advanced. In 2009, [...]
