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Ebury: Solution Overview (trade finance services for smaller global businesses) - [PRO Content]
July 2, 2020 | David Gustin
One of the biggest challenges for small- and medium-size enterprises trading globally has been the lack of access to the kind of financial services readily offered by banks to multinationals. Today, businesses of any size can think and trade globally, but the services to support them may not be offered by their bank. A $100…
Supply chain health check: 10 things you should be doing in the COVID-19 era - [Sponsored Article]
June 30, 2020 | Nodreen Kiwanuka, Taulia
As companies emerge from the coronavirus storm, it will be more important than ever to test the resilience of their supply chains in the current environment — and strengthen them in preparation for any future crises. From stress-testing the financial health of the supply chain to becoming more agile when onboarding new suppliers, companies should…
Tradeshift Pay overview: Connectivity as a bridge to finance - [PRO Content]
June 29, 2020 | David Gustin
Back in May 2018, Tradeshift announced Tradeshift Pay, and proclaimed it was the industry’s first end-to-end cloud platform for supply chain payments and finance, including blockchain-based financing. At that time, very few source-to-pay vendors had any type of payment offering. What those solutions provided was an approved payment request, which involved matching the invoice with…
The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments
June 24, 2020 | David Gustin
There is no argument that the demand for early payment on invoices is as strong as ever — that is to say, if you have invoices to generate. In the coronavirus era, many businesses have lost significant revenue. For example, businesses serving the U.S. hotel & food-services industry have shed 40% of jobs from January…
Credit cards and the true cost of interchange in B2B payments
June 18, 2020 | David Gustin
Is B2B the next evolution for credit cards? As we all know, it’s not like a B2C merchant where the transaction takes place face-to-face and you get your goods immediately or through e-commerce, where the goods arrive within a day or two. B2B transactions have disputes, invoices, adjustments. Find out more about the hurdles facing…
Taulia: Vendor Analysis (Part 2) — Strengths and Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
May 27, 2020 | Xavier Olivera
Taulia is known for its working capital solutions, which include both of its early payment programs: self-funded and funded by third parties. But as mentioned in Part 1 of this Spend Matters PRO Vendor Analysis, Taulia’s platform also offers e-invoicing and AP automation solutions. In Part 2, we'll give our insight into the strengths and…
Taulia: Vendor Analysis (Part 1) — Background, Solution Overview, Tech Selection Tips - [PRO Content]
May 26, 2020 | Xavier Olivera
In 2009, Taulia started in the U.S. as one of the few dynamic discounting solutions in the market, and through the years, Taulia has become a leading SaaS platform for working capital. It enables a supplier early payment offering that can be funded by the buyer (dynamic discounting) and/or funded for supply chain finance (SCF)…
As the coronavirus crisis hurts cash flow, Corcentric advises to focus on tech solutions that help people
April 2, 2020 | Spend Matters Brand Studio
The coronavirus outbreak has required a sweeping plan of social distancing to stem its spread, and people have responded by staying home and limiting their exposure to others. That helps public health, but it is disrupting businesses around the world. With unprecedented shocks to supply and demand across most industries, businesses will need help with…
The contagion effect, COVID-19 and invoice finance
April 2, 2020 | David Gustin
Providing receivable finance as a technology company poses risk precisely because the potential outcomes are overwhelming and cannot be predicted, no matter how good the underwriting. We risk being fools of forecasts built on historical cash-flow expectations, modeling and simulations.
Basware: Vendor Analysis Update (Part 2) — Product Strengths & Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
December 17, 2019 | Xavier Olivera
Basware, a Nordic procure-to-pay (P2P) provider that until recently adopted a conservative global growth strategy, is not as well known outside its customer base for its set of differentiated and robust capabilities, especially in the AP automation, e-invoicing and supplier network areas. Through its acquisition of Verian, it added sufficient e-procurement capability to compete against other…
SoftBank invests $1.65 billion in supply chain finance. Why?
December 11, 2019 | David Gustin
At $100 billion, the SoftBank Vision Fund is both the largest private equity fund ever raised and one of the most complicated. On the heels of some public wounds with the likes of WeWork and Uber, I wondered why the keen interest in supply chain finance (SCF).
GEP: Vendor Analysis (Part 5) — Solution Weaknesses - [PRO Content]
September 10, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux, Xavier Olivera, Pierre Mitchell and Jason Busch
In Spend Matters’ previous installment of our seven-part GEP review, we called out some of the real strengths of the SMART by GEP platform, including some that are rare in the market today. In this Part 5, we are going to balance our analysis by also pointing out some of the "weaknesses" of the platform,…

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : David Gustin said : Yes, because they do not offer an einvoicing or AP automation software. They are more a Treasury to...

The state of dynamic discounting in B2B payments : Robert Solomon said : Hasn't C2FO made an entire business based on taking gain share from dynamic discounting?...

5 Tips and Considerations for Your Next Spend Analysis RFP : Puneet Jain said : What is a typical spend threshold when a company should go for an RFP for sourcing indirect purchase...

‘The answer to a better nation is supplier inclusion’ : Donna Wilczek said : Very true. The existing silos between teams limit supplier inclusion program impact. Making the supp...

‘The answer to a better nation is supplier inclusion’ : Daryl Hammett said : Robert, I agree. We should pivot from the old mindset of Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Supp...