Defining Waterfall-Scrum Workflows for Your P2P Process – Part I

It’s no secret that manual Procure-to-Pay (P2P) costs sap efficiency and drain budgets. When supplier invoice approval and processing lags, it’s tough to get requisitions in on time, checked against contracts and paid. Automating your P2P processes and refining workflows are critical for efficiency, reducing waste, and for tracking your key performance indicators (KPIs). “More…

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Improving Supplier Relationships

P2P Architecture That Aligns BPI Solutions with Scalable Supplier Relationships

Traditional Procure-to-Pay (P2P) architecture based on both paper documents and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems attempt to streamline workflows by digitizing the procurement process. This often results in unnecessary complexity as fragmented data isn’t efficiently integrated into those company P2P workflows, limiting data analytics and employee confidence in managing exceptions. This isn’t particularly conducive to…

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Supplier Relationship Improvement

Are you disengaged with your Suppliers…?

Reconfiguring Your Supplier Relationship Mindset Sometimes the tried-and-true becomes the tired-and-disengaged. Traditional Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) tends to manage communication down a one-way street, from your company to the supplier. When supply runs low, your company orders, waits on signatures, approvals, and fulfillment schedules. Sales representatives visit your company on predetermined agendas. Drawn-out contract terms…

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Approval Routing

Imagine Replacing all Your Inefficient Approval Routing Processes with Something Better?

A Deeper Look at iApprove™ Capabilities – Approval Routing Processes with Something Better iApprove is one of the most powerful and comprehensive tools within the ISS Group’s Business Procurement Optimization software solution suite. A configurable rules-based Approval Routing and Buyer Alert solution, iApprove utilizes the ISS Group Advanced Approval Routing Technology (AART™) for routing of Approvals…

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Core Steps of Procure-to-Pay

Presentation on Procure-to-Pay for QAD at Fall MWUG: How Somero Enterprises saved Thousands!

Digitize these 7 Key Process Activities   Download the presentation on the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process for QAD EA, presented by Sean Brown, IT Manager at Somero Enterprises, at the MWUG Conference October 9th in Grand Rapids, MI. To a packed session, Sean discussed what P2P is and the benefits of ‘Simplifying’ the Procure-to-Pay Process, reviewing…

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P2P Process

Simplicity…! Procurement Transparency and Efficiency with our P2P Solution

The Procure to Pay Process demands a huge amount of resources. Just putting together the basic pieces – RFQs, contract management, payment processing, and filing documentation – requires dedicated staff and a variety of software solutions. Add on top of that spending caps, regulatory compliance, and data collection for executive decisions and you get the…

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Quote to cash with iquote

Drowning In Inefficiency? iQuote® Improves Your Quote-to-Cash Process

ISS Group’s web-based, iQuote® BPI software rids your company of the interdepartmental silos and disparate tools that notoriously create a lack of cohesiveness and functionality in your quote-to-cash process. Simplify. Drowning in inefficient processes doesn’t help your quote-to-cash ratio. iQuote‘s out-of-the-gate, bolt-on ERP system harnesses real-time QAD EA integration with powerful, configurable, rules-based workflow technology that gives you real-time control over pricing, discounts, internal…

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Purchase Requisition Management System

Purchase Requisition Management System iPurchase Takes Procurement to the Next Level

iPurchase® is a web-based Purchase Requisition Management System that includes ”out-of-the-box’ real-time integration with QAD Enterprise Applications. You don’t need to change systems in order to get the optimization you need. iPurchase® bolts right on to your existing ERP and synthesizes it with the cloud for on-the-go, on-the-spot seamless integration that reduces unnecessary spending and creates trust…

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Silhouettes of business partners moving gears inside an office

Innovation: Advancing Collaboration Through Business Process Improvement Solutions

Traditional human-centric collaboration involves employees working together, most often face-to-face, toward a common goal, sharing knowledge that evolves an issue toward some vested resolution. Collaboration infused with Business Process Improvement (BPI) solutions takes that human-centric process and advances it into solutions that are both digitally innovative and collaborative. The resulting new paradigm engineers a co-creation…

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Electronic Procurement: The First Step in Digitizing the Procure-to-Pay Process – Part 3

In today’s world, ‘Innovation’ is the key to success…! What does a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and energy storage systems for transportation and other commercial and industrial applications, and a manufacturer of catheters and scaffolding material to treat hernias and vaginal prolapses have in common…??? Both knew that it was essential, and no longer…

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