Rant: E-Invoicing Claims vs. Supplier Reality (Part 1)
As I’ve dug further and further into marketing materials published by various vendors and analysts extolling the benefits of E-invoicing for suppliers, I’ve become less and less convinced that the benefits for buyers and suppliers…
Friday Rant: When Invoicing and Electronic Invoice Presentment Payment (EIPP) Solutions Come Up Shor
As I look at payables and invoicing case studies from both software providers and banks, I’m becoming more convinced than ever that discounting and EIPP solutions are capable of delivering perhaps the most important type and level of value today across the procurement spectrum. Consider, under ideal circumstances, how solutions such as these can: Help [...]
Basware and Lavante: Where Invoicing, Supplier Management and Audit Recovery Meet? (Part 1)
Earlier in the month, Basware and Lavante announced a partnership that promises to more closely link the P2P, invoice management, supplier management and audit recovery areas. Basware, for those who are not familiar with this Finnish-based provider, is one of the largest — if not the largest — invoice automation / electronic invoice presentment payment [...]
Basware Guns for the Pole Position in EIPP and Invoice Automation (Part 1)
In early fall — way back during the first weeks of September — I had
the chance to catch up with some folks from the Basware team in London
to learn more about the software provider’s new offerings and strategy for 2010. I
followed up with them …
Friday Rant: The Commoditization of Parts of the Spend Management Technology Market
I’ve had two different people corner me (either online or in person) the past week to complain about my coverage of Oracle’s new spend classification product and how my view painted a perspective that hinted at a commoditization of the market. Which …
Friday Rant: Getting A/P and Supplier Management Wrong — A Supplier’s Perspective
Some might say that as both a consultant/analyst with subject matter knowledge and business owner, I’m in a position to study the Spend Management sector from a truly unique vantage point. Namely, I constantly talk to folks in both procurement and A/…
