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The Changing Role Of Procurement, The Changing Form Of Procurement Processing
By: donald nason
The role of procurement has been changing over recent years and developing into a far more strategic part of a business. With this change in perception of role has come a need for improved procedures and which has led to a growing move towards electronic processing. Could moving to electronic procurement processing bring benefits to your business?(read
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Accounts Payable (ap) Department Among Top Three Most Popular For Moving To Paper-free
By: donald nason
A recent report from AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management), ‘Winning the Paper Wars – capture the content and mobilize the process troops', puts the Accounts Payable (AP) department among the top three business areas organisations want to move to paper-free. The AIIM report, based on the results of a survey of 563 AIIM members, also states that investment in automating AP processing is set to grow.(read
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The Future Is Digital – And Not Just For Retro Football Magazines
By: donald nason
An article posted at the beginning of the month reported on an interesting, if rather novel, way of introducing a magazine's readership to online perusing. The Leeds publisher, media73 Ltd, produced a half-print, half-digital magazine. Sixty6 editor in chief, Mal Robinson, said, “We decided the best way to entice the reader online is to offer them a slice of traditional media to send the message about the future, which is digital."(read
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A Million Sheets Of Paper Every Day
By: donald nason
A million sheets of paper every day... that's the output from the government's Crown Prosecution Service as highlighted in a number of articles which appeared this week, including in The Independent and The Spectator. The articles are based on findings in the report Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger: Remaking government for the digital age, which looks at the amount of money government departments spend on paper-based systems and which could be saved.(read
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Banknotes: The Faces On Them And Their Make-up – Public Outcry, Now Public Consultation
By: donald nason
It was fascinating to read the details about a possible change to the fabric from which the UK's banknotes are made, and that the Bank of England is running a public consultation programme on whether the UK should move from cotton paper to polymer banknotes. This follows on from the controversy which raged earlier in the year when it was announced that the picture of the social reformer Elizabeth Fry was to be removed from the £5 note.(read
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The Impact Of Ap (accounts Payable) Efficiency On Your Bottom Line
By: donald nason
A recent report from the research and analysis organization Aberdeen Group, states, ‘the impact of an efficient and streamlined AP is permeated through the organization and has a direct impact on the organization's bottom line.' Yet, the report points to many business's Accounts Payable as the poor relation lurking in the shadows when it comes to apportion of the internal investment pot, which – in view of the above claim – seems not only illogical but very short-sighted on the part of the pot holders.(read
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Pm Gets Even Tougher With Late Payers – How An Invoice Management Solution Can Help
By: donald nason
A press release from the Prime Minister's Office last week included the message that David Cameron is determined to strengthen the crack-down on late-paying organisations. The measures - part of a package created to help boost business, the government aware that late payments continue to remain a major problem for many SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) - mean that late payments are set to become an increasingly serious problem for late paying organisations, but one easily addressed with an invoice management solution.(read
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Are Excessive Volumes Of External Queries Taking Your Accounts Payable Staff From More Productive Wo
By: donald nason
Having to deal with external queries is the bane of many an Accounts Payable (AP) team member's life. The man-hours involved in having to handle even simple enquiries, let alone those involving mislaid invoices, tracking down supporting documents, trying to locate on exactly whose desk an authorisation request is lurking – well, they all add up to creating a major headache for the AP department. With an invoice management solution, you not only cut a swathe through the amount of queries arising, but significantly enhance the query response time for those remaining.(read
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For 'bread And Butter Spend – Things Like Stationery And Computers'
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The title of this blog is taken from an article which appeared in ‘The Guardian' earlier in the week. The article was about the importance of universities collaborating on procurement, and all very interesting and informative. But it was this phrase that particularly stood out for me. ‘Bread and butter spend' … on yes, stationery, definitely – but, computers? Bread and butter, and computers? It's the suggestion of basic and fundamental that the term ‘bread and butter' has for me and which stopped me in my tracks. Then of course, it became clear, when I thought about just how central technology has become to life in the 21st century.(read
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Lose Overpayment, Not Invoices
By: donald nason
Losing fewer invoices is one of the biggest benefits to come from eliminating paper from the Accounts Payable (AP) department, according to a recent report from PayStream Advisers. Among the other many benefits cited as coming from removing paper and automating AP workflow is eliminating duplicate payments.(read
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