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 [...]
TradeShift Introduces CloudScan — A Shift in E-Invoicing Philosophy as Much as Technology (Part 2)
From the viewpoint of procurement and A/P, the primary value proposition for CloudScan is that it can drive supplier enablement and the use of e-invoicing much quicker than traditional on-boarding approaches. Yet because of the supplier-centric validation and enrichment components, it provides value far beyond just a basic OCR service
Will E-Invoicing (in Certain Cases) Remain Free?
Over on Purchasing Insight, Pete Loughlin recently waxed eloquent on the topic of whether or not E-Invoicing should remain free (Pete also slyly hinted at how he wastes time when not consulting on or writing about P2P systems on Farmvi…
TradeShift Introduces CloudScan — A Shift in E-Invoicing Philosophy as Much as Technology (Part 1)
Earlier this week, TradeShift introduced CloudScan, a new cloud-based OCR service that at first might sound like the countless other scanning services available from competing e-invoice providers and network operators. But CloudScan is…
An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Supplier Enablement (Part 1)
Please click here for related posts in this series: An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: P2P, Data and Systems Linkages (Part 1) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: P2P, Data and Systems Linkages (Part 2) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Discounting and Payment (Part 1) An Electronic Invoicing Maturity Model: Discounting and Payment (Part 2) We’ve written [...]
Understanding the Global Footprint for Electronic Invoicing (Part 1)
Sometimes a picture can tell a thousand words — or a thousand transactions. Electronic transactions, that is. Purchasing Insight’s Pete Loughlin has come up with a simple and useful map that explores electronic invoicing’s global foot…
New Research: E-Invoicing Comes of Age – History, Solution Features, Technology Elements, and More!
We’ve done it again. Spend Matters has made yet another attempt at distilling an important topic into a piece of core research that we hope will become essential reading for companies both getting started or wanting to accelerate their…
Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 2)
The “partial” solution to electronic invoicing seems alive and well, based on some of the survey response data in the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP/Basware 2011 study on the subject. This partial solution we speak of is, of course, scanning
Examining the Reasons Electronic Invoicing Will Truly Cross the Proverbial Adoption Chasm (Part 1)
Courtesy of Basware, I’ve have the chance to recently dig into the results of the Institute of Financial Operations/IAPP 2011 E-Invoicing survey report, which examines adoption trends and needs/wants of those in the market for electron…
E-Invoicing — Is the 80% Solution Enough?
There’s another thought provoking post over on Purchasing Insight that suggests we may need to settle for the 80% electronic invoicing model rather than what many of us no doubt would aspire to. The piece argues that “Adopting a h…
