P2P

Thanks to advances in ERP and web-based P2P systems, purchasing and AP professionals are now working more closely together to reduce costs and increase service.

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Managing the organizational change that comes with implementing an e-invoicing solution is challenging. At Washington Mutual (WaMu), this challenge was heightened by the company’s fractious and… Read More

An enterprise can appear almost chaotic from the outside looking in, as different departments perform a multitude of seemingly unrelated tasks. One of the most difficult things for many companies is… Read More

Jerri Painter, accounts payable veteran at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, was faced in AP with the recurring challenge of lost or misplaced invoices. “We were using a paper filing… Read More

In a business with only 90 employees, it's easy for AP to maintain verbal communication with purchasing. "I am surprised when I hear that it takes some AP managers 30 or more days to resolve an issue

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A procure-to-pay process is most efficient when both ends share information. The procurement department uses accounts payable’s data to perform spend analysis, while AP uses procurement’s data to… Read More

Few things are as satisfying as when bitter rivals put aside their differences for the common good. Britain and France, the United Stated and Russia, Humans and Klingons. Good things happen when… Read More

Although most AP professionals could probably write a book on the challenges of working through problem invoices, Proactis, in its Spend Control Management report, lists three major outcomes of a

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Purchase-to-pay–or P2P–covers the functions of requisitioning, purchasing, receiving, paying, and accounting for goods and services. In a highly-functioning, best-practice P2P process, all those

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Purchase to Pay (P2P) is a topic on the minds of organizations across a wide spectrum of industries. In this article, we explore the observations of Tom Finn of HealthcareMatters.com and John Zangari

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