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Gartner announced the 2013 Supply Chain Top 25. And guess what. GXS powers 22 of Gartner’s 2013 Supply Chain Top 25* through GXS’ cloud-based integration platform, called the GXS Trading Grid. GXS Trading Grid enables customers in industries including automotive, retail, high tech and consumer products to exchange information electronically with their customers and suppliers.
The Supply Chain Top 25 rankings comprise two main components: financial and opinion. Public financial data gives a view into how companies have performed in the past, while the opinion component provides an eye to future potential and reflects future expected leadership, a crucial characteristic. These two components are combined into a total composite score.
One of your time-consuming challenges as a modern organisation is of course dealing with the thousands of invoices you receive every month. From understanding what a specific invoice refers to (vendor, project, purchase order, and so on), to workflow and payment. All in all there is plenty room for improvement.
Top Image Systems helps you to get to grips. There recent white paper covers the up-to-date principles of account payable process automation: what are the drivers for AP automation, what are the immediate benefits, and how should an enterprise go about implementing an end-to-end automation system of its AP processes.
Two weeks ago, Basware warned you for the four deadly traps in payables. And now the provider of purchase-to-pay solutions literally shows you which route to take for business growth with a very cool infographic. Basware compared 1368 small and medium-sized businesses, and discovered six critical challenges.
Read MoreMost SMBs have the secret (or not so secret) wish to grow. Pretty difficult in the year 2013. Payables might not be the first issue you turn to fulfil this wish, but Basware has identified seven success strategies and four deadly traps when handling invoices that directly influence your company’s growth potential.
Read MoreWe received a press release on yet another research. And what interested us most weren’t the actual outcomes of the study. No, it was the tail of the press release. Called the “Forward Looking Statements”. Our answer? Please: don’t make hollow predictions and take full responsibility for any of them.
Read More16 hours and 53 minutes. That’s more than 2 full working days (for those of us who aren’t workaholics at least). And that’s how much time the average SMB employee spends on financial processes according to Basware’s SMB Finance research. Oh, those financial processes aren’t part of these employees’ job responsibilities. Hmm.
Read MoreWebinars have a downside. You have to be on your feet when you attend one. GXS has the answer, because they have a new webinar which is on-demand. So you can watch it again and again. It is called “A Call to Action: Upgrading and Modernizing Your B2B Integration Strategy” and features Benoit Lheureux of Gartner and GXS’s Steve Keifer.
Read MoreA few days ago Bruno Koch posted a discussion in our LinkedIn group about his latest International Market Overview & Forecast. Although we have great respect for his work, we can’t help but wonder on what actual facts he bases his findings. Or are they guesstimates? What do you think? See for yourself in this brief summary (Europe only).
Read MoreIn August 2012, sharedserviceslink.com and Ariba partnered to run a survey on the state of e-invoicing. They wanted to better understand the drivers, considerations and fears. Overall, those with no plans for e-invoicing lagged in virtually every category of strategic impact and savings. So never say we didn’t ttell you so!
Read MoreModern supply chains are becoming more and more complex and companies are switching to automation to keep up with this complexity. Certipost’s latest white paper gives you all the info you need and shows you what the advantages of Certipost e-Supply are.
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