The term “supplier network” or “business network” can mean many things to many people. Ariba offers its supplier network as a cloud-based set of services and has been very successful at that. Think about car dealers. They don’t make all their money on the cars themselves but on all the downstream services. And if you…

Tradeshift正成为一个日益重要的procure-to-pay (P2P) vendor to watch for procurement organizations and the broader purchasing and B2B ecosystem. The provider has piqued our curiosity with its foray into e-procurement. It stands out from the crowd, from both an architectural and technology perspective, for two key reasons: the recent launch of Tradeshift Buy,…

I’ve had a number of discussions with folks on all sides of the procurement and accounts payable technology market of late, covering different points of view on where supplier networks and transactional connectivity might be headed. One area that seems to come up often is looking at networks not just as a tool for operational…

Building on my earlier post introducing supplier networks and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), which was inspired by some of the thinking in Accenture’s paper, Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One, when considering supplier networks of tomorrow, I can think of dozens of future network-based applications that will supplement, augment…

Separate from supplier networks, e-procurement and purchase-to-pay (P2P) systems enable a range of hard dollar cost reduction benefits by reducing off-contract purchases, lowering purchase volume in general, improving operating efficiency, increasing PO throughput per full-time equivalent and bringing greater spend under management and lower contract rates. 
 These systems do this by supporting a range…

In our past lives designing, advising and implementing e-invoicing programs with clients, the Spend Matters team has found that far too many people inside procurement and finance organizations are confused about what supplier networks provide and what purchase-to-pay (P2P) and e-invoicing solutions deliver. For example, in many cases supplier networks incorporate e-invoicing capabilities within them;…

I’m glad Accenture put supplier networks at the core of its future vision for technology in its recent white paper: Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One. But the supplier networks of tomorrow will look very different than those that are most common today. Tradeshift, which is pitching…

What will the future of category management look like? Accenture has a strong opinion on the topic, and shares it in their recently published brief, Procurement’s Next Frontier – The Future Will Give Rise to an Organization of One, when introducing the concept of the “virtual category room.” The notion of extending category management into…

Coupa announced Monday it had acquired InvoiceSmash, an upstart vendor from Australia that looks somewhat similar, on the surface, to the type of PDF extraction e-invoicing services offered by providers like Transcepta and Tradeshift, among others, that extract data and metadata from documents and then present them in an easy to leverage format from an…

我们现场e-invoicin周围很多问题g, supplier networks and how they fit into overall procurement, including accounts payable (A/P), purchase-to-pay (P2P), treasury and risk and supplier management situations. The new, FREE research download Understanding How E-Invoicing Fits by Jason Busch, founder and managing director at Spend Matters, addresses a number of questions on…

No time to wait! Register now for Thursday’s pop-up webinar at 10:30 a.m. CDT and learn How E-Invoicing Fits – A/P Automation, P2P, eProcurement, Trade Financing, Compliance, and Vendor Management. Join Jason Busch, founder and managing director at Spend Matters, and David Gustin, executive editor at Trade Financing Matters, as they address the most commonly…

New, free research from Trade Financing Matters is now available. Get your copy of The Rise (and Rise) of Supplier Networks: The Comet Coming? David Gustin, managing editor of Trade Financing Matters, is joined by Jason Busch, Spend Matters founder and managing director, and David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance at Misys,…

Trade Financing Matters - Free White Paper DownloadThe world of trade finance has traditionally been served by the documentary letter of credit for hundreds of years. The associated management of risk and financing services has hitherto been the exclusive domain of the financial services industry, comprising both banks and to some extent specialist non-bank financial…

My colleague David Gustin recently penned an outstanding white paper that outlines how event-triggered finance can change the receivables and payables financing worlds (including factoring) for good. In the analysis, he takes the worlds of invoice discounting and supply chain finance a step further, investigating scenarios and models that those with a high-level understanding of…

Join David Gustin of Trade Financing Matters on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 2 p.m. EST for Why Factors Should Care What is Happening with B2B & Supplier Network and Non-Banks, a new webinar that will examine new models disaggregating banks and factors for business credit as well as what it all means for non bank…