Filling the Functionality Gaps in Your Legacy Systems
…while these systems provide lots of value they also leave behind gaps of functionality that may seem small but none-the-less can have significant downstream impact.
Read FullProcurement Meets Finance
June 1, 2020
For many organizations obtaining and sharing critical supplier information between different functional areas can be a frustrating task. Siloed organizational structures, disparate systems that don’t communicate with each other and differing business objective are factors that contribute to this situation. In fact, other key areas that have a stake in supplier relations such as supply […]
Read FullIt’s All About Vendor Self-Service – Especially Now!
May 4, 2020
In this new social distancing world, push non-value add tasks back to your vendors. Vendor self-service is hardly a new concept, it has been gaining traction steadily, especially with larger companies. Using the many procure-to-pay tools and systems in the marketplace companies can reduce costs and gain efficiencies by pushing non-value add activities out to […]
Read FullIs it Time to Focus on Reducing Expenses?
As we are all coping with the new realities the COVID19 pandemic has created we also must start to look towards the future. While we are certainly going to enter a recession, the depth and length of such a downturn to our economy is unknown. What is known is that as we come out of […]
Read FullVendor Portals: Choices, Choices, Choices!
February 24, 2020
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. Submitting invoices, tracking payments and […]
Read FullA New Year is Upon Us
New Years brings new technologies
Read FullCompliance
November 6, 2019
Back Office Word of the Week 11/4/19 In business, Compliance is defined as the confirmation that a provider of a service or a manufacturer or supplier of goods, adheres to all the requirements, regulations, legislation and specific standards of a contract. Ongoing maintenance and tracking of expiring certificates, licenses, permits and contracts is necessary to […]
Read FullVendor Packet
October 21, 2019
Back Office Word of the Week 10/21/19 A vendor packet is a collection of forms and documents that a buyer sends to a potential new vendor in order to start a relationship. The packet includes all the necessary information needed to set up a new vendor for payment and compliance. Vendor packets can be relatively […]
Read FullSupplier Onboarding
October 15, 2019
Back office Word of the Week 10-14-19 Supplier onboarding, or vendor 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 supplier onboarding or vendr […]
Read FullVendor Management
September 16, 2019
Back Office Word of the Week – 9/16/19 Vendor Management (sometimes called Supplier Management) is the process by which a buyer formalizes a relationship with their vendors and suppliers and manages that relationship through its lifecycle. The first step in a Vendor Management is typically procurement, where a buyer sources and negotiates a contract with […]
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