Posted by Ken Clark, Global eInvoicing Compliancy Director in Accounts Payable on December 10, 2019
Audience members at our recent eInvoicing webinars raised some interesting questions in the Q&A session, here’s a selection of the most commonly asked below: Q. What processes or rules should be put in place to ensure that suppliers select the appropriate tax rates on invoices and then marry them to the appropriate tax codes in […]
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Posted by Ken Clark, Global eInvoicing Compliancy Director in Direct Solutions / Indirect Solutions on December 3, 2019
With Brexit, trade wars, economic crises and recessions, 2019 has been far from boring. One of the measures governments often take to address tough economic conditions, by strengthening the collection of indirect and customs taxes, is to implement electronic invoicing mandates. New mandates announced or implemented in the last year include Italy, Greece and India, [...]
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Posted by Chelsea Davis, Marketing Manager in eProcurement / Just For Fun on December 2, 2019
After pulling a few strings, we managed to catch Santa on one of his few coffee breaks at this busy time of year to fire five burning questions at the reigning world champion in procurement. Christmas is a holiday worldwide, but the busiest time at work for you. When does your year start? Actually we […]
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Posted by Michael Rösch, JAGGAER SVP of Operations in CPG / Direct Solutions / Distribution / Education / Financial Services / Healthcare / Indirect Solutions / Life Sciences / Manufacturing / Procurement Resources / Public Sector / Retail on November 26, 2019
What is SaaS? When you decide to deploy a SaaS solution for procurement, you are choosing the provider of a service. You don’t choose any of the server, storage, or networking specifics, and you don’t choose an operating system, or even a language to develop new tools in. Rather, you get an application, such as eProcurement or Supply Chain Management. However, you can choose the specific settings in the application, the […]
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Posted by Michael Rösch, JAGGAER SVP of Operations in Direct Solutions / Indirect Solutions / Procurement Resources on November 19, 2019
When it comes to delivering successful digital transformation, procurement needs to change its mindset. Apologies if that sounds a little provocative, but it is an opinion based on 20 years of experience that straddles both the procurement function and software implementation projects. A lot has changed in those two decades, on both sides. In the […]
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Posted by Chelsea Davis, Marketing Manager in Direct Solutions / Indirect Solutions / Supplier Management / Supplier Network on November 12, 2019
Most software vendors have taken an applications-driven approach to delivering solutions. They have identified the main challenges faced by procurement professionals and developed applications that address those specific challenges. This has brought benefits but not sustainable value, especially when buyers have looked for “best-of-breed” point solutions with limited interoperability. The result has been isolated applications, […]
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Posted by Aileen Busi, Product Marketing, Solutions, and Strategy in Accounts Payable on November 5, 2019
A centralized, seamless, process for your accounts payable team is integral to faster invoice processing in order to attain early payment discounts and avoid fees. This can feel impossible when viewing a diverse field of suppliers and transaction types, but it is entirely possible to offer your suppliers the flexibility they need while adhering to [...]
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Posted by Ed Walker in Procurement Resources / Source-to-Pay on October 29, 2019
Deloitte’s 2019 Global CPO Survey identifies the key challenges that procurement professionals are struggling to tackle. The biggest risk factors, according to the survey, are the economic downturn and deflation (cited by 42% of respondents), internal complexity due to M&A activity, organizational silos, non-standard processes (39%), managing complexity within mega-suppliers (37%), trade war (33%), managing […]
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Posted by Chelsea Davis in Source-to-Pay on October 28, 2019
You identified a compliance problem within your procurement process. You came up with a plan. You created PowerPoints and ROI spreadsheets worthy of an award. Your boss loved it. Now all you have to do is get everyone else on board. With a plan that makes such obvious sense, it should be a piece of […]
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Posted by Amenallah Reghimi, Product Manager Cognitive Intelligence, Category Management and Analytics in Procurement Resources / Source-to-Pay / Supplier Management on October 22, 2019
What Is the Best Way to Secure Sustainable Competitive Advantage from New Technologies? Until now the focus of attention has been process automation or augmentation. Our recently published report, “Digital Transformation in Procurement: How Close Are We?”, which is based on a global survey with responses from 391 CPOs and other senior procurement decision makers, […]
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