Jason Busch
Obsessed with how companies manage, spend and save money, Jason writes about procurement, trade and supply chain issues @ Spend Matters. He has significant first hand experience developing and marketing technology and services products, has advised numerous companies on sourcing and related techniques as well as M&A pursuits. In previous lives before tech, he was a management consultant and merchant banking analyst.
A P2P Implementation Guide: Avoid the “Dumb Ways to Die”
Given YouTube’s rising influence – or at least the time we’re all wasting watching silly clips – we decided to honor the namesake viral video with a Spend Matters research paper titled: A P2P Implementation Guide: Avoid the “Dumb Ways to Die.” Our thesis is that far too many companies get themselves into trouble with [...]
The SAP Business Suite and HANA
Most folks using procurement technology would rather not get into the underlying bits and bytes of technology architecture, let alone the nuances of database technology. For the most part this makes sense, though we’d argue that for systems integration, a lot of incremental business value in the P2P and services procurement areas can be derived [...]
Coupa’s Suite: From Procurement To Accounts Payable (Part 2)
Click here for Part 1. Before delving into Coupa’s approach to invoice management software, it’s worth doing a quick double-click on where procure to pay software priorities stand in their overall roadmap. While a major priority for development at the end of 2012, Coupa’s electronic invoicing capabilities continue to get significant product investment in 2013, [...]
Coupa’s Suite: From Procurement To Accounts Payable (Part 1)
In only a few years time, Coupa has gone from a purchase-to-pay (P2P) upstart to the fastest growing eProcurement provider, besting the growth of companies many times its size in new customer wins, adoption levels and percentage revenue increases, among other metrics. In a recent press release, Coupa shared some figures around this growth, including [...]
Cost Management Failures: 10 Reasons SMBs Stink at Procurement
Last week, we began a blog series exploring the state of procurement in the small and middle market sectors. See 2013: The Year of Source-To-Pay Adoption for SMB Procurement and 3 Essential Procurement Services For Small and Middle Market Businesses. As we continue our analysis of SMB procurement practices, it makes sense to do a [...]
Some Secrets of the Industry Analyst Briefing
Over on Spend Matters PRO, my colleague Peter Smith recently penned a must-read column for software providers, BPOs and consultants in the procurement and supply chain ecosystem: Providers Take Note: A Look Inside the Brain of a CPO (subscription content – try before you buy here). His post got me thinking about writing a similar [...]
3 Essential Procurement Services For Small and Middle Market Businesses
We’re big believers that 2013 is going to be the year that procurement technology adoption takes off in the SMB procurement market. But which technologies across the source-to-pay continuum are most suited to small and middle market environments? Hint: it’s only a handful. Granted, there are opportunities for the full suite of capabilities (including strategic [...]
Source-to-Pay: Selecting More Than One E-Sourcing Tool
Later this week, Spend Matters will publish our latest Compass research brief covering the source-to-pay technology market: Next Level Sourcing and Commodity Management: Evaluating the Capabilities of ERP Providers Compared to Independ…
Ariba and SAP: Integration, Planning and Solution Roadmaps (Part 1)
Earlier this week, SAP announced that it had closed its acquisition of Ariba, following the deal’s clearance by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). We covered this announcement on Spend Matters and Spend Matters PRO on Monday. Of cours…
Friday Rant: TradingPartners Trades No More; An Unavoidable Bankruptcy?
Earlier this week, Spend Matters UK/Europe broke the story that something was amiss at TradingPartners. The company’s phone lines were dead. A supplier, which had not been paid, contacted us (he found us through a previous blog on TP)….
