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This report provides insight into the "best" and "next practices in the technology disrupting e-procurement and invoice-to-pay .

Spend Matters - Free Research Download
In this briefing paper, we explore the areas within the P2P process where Procurement and Finance find themselves either aligned or in discord. We then look at the reasons and offer suggestions to help both parties create a collaborative relationship in the areas of mis-alignment.

Looking for the most detailed and comprehensive market overview of the e-procurement and invoice-to-pay (P2P) landscape? Look no further — download it today.

There's no question that bicycles represent a giant evolutionary leap from human locomotion. But they also provide a great metaphor for the opportunity that accounts payable (AP) organizations have to move away from manual processes to automated ones – with even greater efficiency and speed returns than a two-wheeler can provide. In this white paper, we provide a number of benefits that AP organizations can realize from automation and digitization. These examples can help not only make the case for high-value technology investments to drive AP efficiency improvements, but also to build AP finance and procurement value in the eyes of constituents and stakeholders. Download this paper to take off the training wheels – it's better to learn to ride properly from the start – and explore five benefits of putting AP on two wheels.

They say every picture tells a story. So, if you take a picture of your accounts receivable (A/R) function through the camera lens of A/R data, what will it tell you about your transactional order-to-cash processes? And what light will it shed on your approaches to cash collection, customer engagement and risk and compliance management — or your overall ability to influence business performance? When it comes to painting a picture of business health, unedited photographs rarely distort the truth, and that’s true for A/R data, too. The good news is that the more unflattering the picture, the more opportunity you have in front of you to provide better visibility to the business, improve cash flow and reduce risk. Now it’s time to grab your camera as we take you on a quick journey with how-to steps to improve overall A/R performance, starting first with explaining the role of A/R in overall business terms (i.e., why it matters!)

As companies look for new ways to remain competitive in their markets and industries, procurement is playing an important role–with a focus on the new breed of procure-to-pay solutions to give them a needed edge. This paper provides insight for organizations that want to transform their current P2P capabilities by improving operations visibility, stakeholder collaboration and overall procurement value within the company. However, before making any important decision regarding P2P, we encourage organizations to take an honest look at where they stand in terms of IT maturity, as well as assess how to take their technology to the next level without increasing total cost of ownership (TCO).
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Many financial institutions and vendors have begun investing heavily in developing supply chain financing products, mainly buyer-centric models. These models are based upon the simple idea that a buyer’s invoices can be financed for a single buyer and its dealer or vendor network. Most of the hype today is centered on various early pay techniques for a single buyer’s invoices, with these services being referred to as dynamic discounting, supply chain finance, or reverse factoring. But what if the relationship was reversed? Download our paper to learn more.

Spend Matters Founder and Head of Strategy Jason Busch walks readers through how they should be prepared for the OMB Federal E-invoicing mandate in the United States.

Spend Matters Video Content - Webinar Replay
In this 30-minute session, Spend Matters founder and head of strategy Jason Busch provides some clarity and insight around what e-invoicing means for the public sector.

E-signatures and digital signatures are a rapidly growing sub-segment of the procurement and broader enterprise technology market. The numbers are truly off the charts. According to industry research, the segment experienced 48% growth in 2011, and an average of 53% annual growth in 2012 and 2013. Forrester estimates there will be 700 million e-signature transactions by 2017. There is no doubt that the growth will continue in this market at breakneck pace for at least the next few years. But where do e-signatures and digital signatures fit into e-procurement, beyond simply replacing handwritten signatures on the contract paper? This Spend Matters PRO research brief provides examples and use cases where these solutions can play a critical role supporting end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) and related procurement processes.

Spend analysis is changing - and it's changing fast. In this paper, Peter Smith interviews Stefan Foryszewski from Tungsten Analytics, discussing some of the bleeding-edge approaches companies are taking in this area.