Procurement, The 3rd Generation: Integrated Spend Management – Early integration = creating more value July 10, 2008
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Differentiation, Procurement
It seems like the discussion about how to implement the Spend Management gets more heated and thus this topic deserves an update.
As I wrote in my earlier blog entry I believe in a little (or maybe a quite) different approach than the “traditional” spend management solution providers, namely I believe in the early integration [...]
Procurement, The 3rd Generation: Spend Management on every desktop February 18, 2008
Posted by Jari Tavi in : Differentiation, Procurement
Spend Management has become an area where lots of “mystics” and “brotherhood in black robes” have created an expectation level that Spend Analytics, which is mandatory for professional spend management, is complex, time (read: money) consuming and sensitive to changes in systems configurations and IT.
Well, basically most of that is true as the traditional [...]
Taking the lead in procurement May 10, 2007
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : Procurement
BasWare is a known world-leader in the invoice automation business. According to our vision we want to be the world-leader in the enterprise purchase to pay market, which covers both invoice automation and purchase management.
Let’s go back exactly two years. We were doing fine with invoice automation but purchase management did not fly at all. [...]
Making the best out of purchasing April 19, 2007
Posted by Esa Tihilä in : Procurement
Purchase Management, Procurement, Sourcing - whatever you like to call it - seems to have become a more and more an important subject in enterprise life recently. I run our businesses in Europe and the Americas, and active implementations are numerous compared to previous years. At marketing events there are lot of participants as well.
But [...]