One of the most popular trends today in business is moving from housing and maintaining business applications on internal servers to cloud based applications. There are several reasons for this trend but two of the most common are that it reduces internal costs, particularly IT costs, and related to that is a greatly reduced IT […]
Procure-to-pay, sometimes referred to as P2P, is a term used in the software industry to designate a specific subdivision of the procurement process. The procure-to-pay systems enable the integration of the purchasing department with the accounts payable department. The term is derived from the ordered sequence of procurement and financial processes, starting with the first steps of […]
SaaS Is a method of software delivery and licensing in which software is accessed online via a subscription, rather than bought and installed on individual computers or servers. ICG has taken SaaS to a new level by providing Solutions as a Service in a single tenant, cloud hosted model. What that means is you get […]
ELECTRONIC INVOICING Often abbreviated as e-invoicing or einvoicing, is an electronic form of billing used between customers and their suppliers. The documents shared between the two parties could include invoices, purchase orders, payment terms or any other relevant documents and data that are needed for supplier to submit and buyer to approve for payment. The […]
VENDOR PORTALS A Vendor Portal (or a Supplier Portal as some people call it) is a web-based, vendor management solution that allows you to collaborate with your vendors in a secure, online environment. Among the functions a Vendor Portal can provide is to allow organizations to streamline the Vendor Onboarding process via vendor self-service as […]
For many companies vendor management is treated as just another back-office function to be administered by procurement and accounts payable. But are those companies putting their organizations at risk by not taking a more strategic view of vendor management? For organizations in many different industries the vendors or suppliers are at the heart of their […]
Workflow Workflow, sometimes referred to as Business Process Management (BPM), in the accounts payable world, is the required tasks needed to approve a payment to a vendor or creditor based on a predetermined set of rules. These rules can range from highly complex to fairly simplistic depending on the nature of the AP process. These […]
Vendor Onboarding Vendor onboarding, or supplier onboarding, is the process of gathering the documents and data needed to set up a company as an approved vendor and to enable your organization to efficiently conduct business, purchase goods and services, and make payments to that company. A vendor onboarding or supplier onboarding solution should offer functionality […]
A vendor portal (or supplier portal) refers to a portal that allows vendors to access and provide the buying company with necessary information in the form of documents or data as well as access documents and data provided by the buying company related to the transactions between the two organizations. Sounds pretty straight forward right? […]
Data Capture Is the process of “capturing” and converting information from documents (paper or electronic) into a form that can be handled electronically, and preferably with little or no human intervention. In an Accounts Payable (AP) environment this information is extracted from invoices of varying formats and file types so the invoices can be processed […]
