The Business Case for Automating Invoice Processing A-SAP February 19, 2008
Posted by Bernd Kosnar in : eBusiness
Whether you’re the CFO, CIO or Accounts Manager, the financial, management and operational advantages of adding invoice automation to SAP certainly add up – to 95% cost and efficiency savings. Bernd Kosnar of Basware explains how.
Deploying SAP helps to put certain key business processes in the fast lane. Unfortunately, for many companies, this [...]
e-Invoicing is dead, long live e-invoicing! February 15, 2008
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
About a year ago we decided to spin-off our e-invoicing business because its business model and nature of the business was different compared to the main stream business of Basware. It did not fit into our core strategy, we said. Now we could say that it was the right decision to give a focus [...]
Why matters January 15, 2008
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
Why some businesses or projects deliver better results than other ones even if there is an equal number and quality of resources, talent and customer potential available? Here are some of my thoughts.
I have been running and taken part in many business process engineering and business re-structuring cases during my career. For example, there are [...]
“Wood for Thoughts” – Let’s waste paper! August 22, 2007
Posted by Jari Tavi in : eBusiness
In my role as a board member of BasWare Einvoices Ltd., I did a drill down to market details and was a little bit surprised of how difficult it was to find reliable numbers on the Electronic Invoices market. Well, according to one, probably reliable enough a source, the invoice volume in Europe alone [...]
I have a few extra hours… April 4, 2007
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
My weeks are filled with meetings and discussions with customers, partners and colleagues. I often feel there aren’t enough hours in the day!
This week something positive happened - I got a few extra hours. Thanks to a new application for handling purchase requisitions, invoice reviews and approvals with a mobile device.
You may think ‘okay he [...]
Base your business review on facts, not feelings April 2, 2007
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : eBusiness
When we see Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) it often fuels a good conversation!
We are having our quarterly business review at the moment, where we walk through all operations from various points of views. We review key financials, marketing, sales, services functions and development of customer and employee satisfaction.
For example in sales we look at size, [...]