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Posts By: Ernie Martin
The Struggle Is Real: Overcoming Obstacles and Successfully Achieving AR and O2C Goals
It’s no secret that many businesses face challenges when meeting
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Electronic Invoicing Requirements Are Spreading. How Your Business Can Prepare in the Era of Mandates
In an increasingly interconnected global economy, suppliers, providers, and vendors
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Artificial Intelligence Has Already Impacted the Supply Chain. What’s the Next Move for Suppliers?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we do business,
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5 Digital Tools Suppliers Can Use to Improve Order-to-Cash and Delight Customers
Suppliers with extensive customer relationships play an essential role in
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Why CFOs Are Embracing Finance Transformation
As technology continues to drive innovation and empower organizations across
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Impact of Technology on Small Business: What the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Discovered
The recent pandemic presented challenges most businesses and individuals struggled
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What Are Continuous Transaction Controls and Why Must Your Company Prepare for It?
Change is the one constant in business. Not only do
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How Cloud ERP Can Make or Break Your Company’s Operation
Whether you’re a CEO, CFO, or COO, your job is
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3 Reasons Why CFOs Still Find Value in Paper Invoices and What They Can Do About It
For the uninitiated, the perception about business is that every
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Look Who’s Getting into the Invoice Financing Game
Businesses often deal with extended payment terms and late payments
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Is Factoring a Casualty of Fintech?
Several years ago, I gave an address at an International
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The AvidXchange IPO Is Great for AP Automation, But What Does It Mean for Suppliers?
AvidXchange began trading publicly on the Nasdaq Global Select Market
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Partior Carves a Path for Cross-Border Payments
While sending and receiving domestic payments relatively quickly has been
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Business Payments Coalition B2B e-Invoicing Modernization is the Solution We Desperately Need
In a recent blog post, I commented about e-Invoicing interoperability
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We keep hearing about e-Invoicing interoperability. Where is it?
It’s no surprise that as more third-party e-invoicing networks offer
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Can The Supply Chain Really Be Digitized? Yes, But Here’s What It Means
On February 24, 2021, the Biden Administration issued an Executive
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The Use of B2B Digital Payments Continues to Grow: Here’s How You Can Take Advantage
Many companies are relying on digital payments these days more
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Why Errors and Exceptions Still Exist When Using Electronic Invoicing
One of the key selling points of electronic invoicing is
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How Electronic Invoicing Solution Providers Perform When Suppliers Pay For Invoices
As part of our deep dive into electronic invoicing solution
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Is Free Invoicing Good Value? Here’s How Top e-Invoicing Solution Providers Performed
Third party electronic invoicing providers offer free invoice submission to
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7 Ways Blockchain Can Help Suppliers Keep More Customers
Today’s business environment remains fierce, especially with the pandemic creating
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Which e-Invoicing Networks Are Most Effective at Reducing DSO?
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) is a measurement that remains a
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5 B2B Payments Trends to Watch in 2021
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, the electronic payments ecosystem has continued
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Can Decentralized Finance Democratize Corporate and Personal Finance on a Global Scale?
Key players in decentralization are betting that DeFi platforms can
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How Fintech Is Changing Banking For Businesses
Technology continues to drive change in financial services, whether banks
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Will COVID-19 Accelerate Blockchain-enabled Invoicing and Payment?
This article is the sixth in a series that looks
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If Working Remotely is Here to Stay, These Are the Implications
This article is the fifth in a series that looks
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Has Invoice Submission Changed Forever After Covid-19?
This article is the fourth in a series that looks
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How Some Technology Companies are Giving Back in the Era of Covid-19
This article is the third in a series that looks
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3 Ways the Trump Administration Pushed to Diversify Supply Chains Before Coronavirus
This article is the second in a series that looks
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5 Strategies Supplier Organizations Should Consider in the Age of Coronavirus
This article is the first in a series that looks
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Electronic Invoicing Set to Grow to $25 billion by 2027. Are the Forecasts Correct?
We’re solidly into March of this year (time sure flies)
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Why Do We Still Confuse the Rudimentary Aspects of e-Invoicing?
I recently read an article in The Windows Club titled
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4 Reasons Why Supplier Organizations Should Encourage Their Customers to Pay Via ACH
When I have an opportunity to speak to members of
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5 Electronic Remittance Data Challenges and the Fix Companies Should Know About
Of particular interest to any organization receiving customer payments is
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Improving DSO Management With ACH
If asked, executives within supplier organizations might indicate several issues
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Defining Terms: What Exactly is a Third-party e-Invoicing Network?
Having operated in this space for a number of years,
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Is California Senate Bill 1235 Great for Business but Bad for Commercial Financing Providers?
Will California’s Senate Bill 1235 ultimately impact the rest of
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The Top 7 Challenges Organizations Face When Submitting Invoices to Their Customers
We regularly engage large, small and mid-size supplier organizations and
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A Deeper Dive, Part 1: Why Email Invoicing Has Replaced Paper as The Bane of Straight Through Processing
During an interview for an upcoming episode of The Savvy
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Blockchain May Be a Silver Bullet for Addressing Many Business Processes, But Are There Serious Shortcomings?
Blockchain is quickly becoming a technology that will impact virtually
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As Harley-Davidson Rides a Bumpy Road, Should Suppliers Be Concerned?
A number of articles have been published recently touting the
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5 Things Suppliers Must Do In Response to Greater Digitization of Customer Supply Chains
The term digital supply chain has been around for a
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Resistance to Invoice Financing Fading as Choices Increase and Customers Extend Payment Terms
Among those with responsibility for managing an organization’s accounts receivable
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The Toys “R” Us Bankruptcy Tragedy and the 5 Lessons Suppliers Must Learn to Protect Their Revenue
Toys “R” Us, the long-venerated toy store so ubiquitous with
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Robots Will Not Kill Us, But They Are Taking Some of Our Jobs
Here are 4 jobs where machines are currently commonplace and
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Why Does Factoring Get Such a Bad Rap?
Supplier organizations submitting invoices to customers have at their disposal
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Will the U.S. Government’s e-Invoicing Mandate Eventually Move to All Businesses?
In an article recently featured in PYMNTS.com, The U.S. Government’s
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7 Ways BPOs Can Play a Vital Role in Streamlining Your Back Office Processes
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is a practice whereby organizations outsource
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Artificial Intelligence
There are a million things to worry about. In
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5 Practices Leaders Must Incorporate to Transform Their Work Week and Bring Out Their Inner Superstar
Most of us go to work each Monday, do our
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8 Business Areas Likely Impacted by a Trump Presidency
I considered writing this post immediately following the election, but
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4 Obstacles to Widespread E-Invoicing Adoption In the U.S.
In a perfect world, invoicing should be a smooth practice.
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Reasons for Optimism and Caution when Considering a Cloud-based ERP Solution
The principle aim of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution
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5 Ways a CRM Solution Positively Impacts Accounts Receivable
At first glance, one might believe a Customer Relationship Management
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4 Ways the Cost-Volume-Profit Formula Helps You Manage Your Organization
The cost-volume-profit (CVP) formula is a managerial tool that helps you
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Greening the Supply Chain: What Suppliers Can Do to Drive Sustainability
In conducting research for last year’s Perceptions study, we learned
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Which is better – DSO or CEI?
We commonly hear that reducing DSO is the key measurement
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5 Reasons Why Most Customers Don’t Understand Their suppliers
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of
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Even with Sarbanes Oxley, Arrest of Documentary Star Shows Accounting Fraud Remains Alive and Well
I admit it. I’m a documentary junkie. More specifically, I
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5 Areas Where Segregation of Duties Can Reduce Risk and Prevent Employee Fraud
For any organization processing a large number of customer transactions,
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7 Actions Your Company Can Take Now to Get Paid Faster
Whether you’re a single proprietor or part of a Fortune 500
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Explaining the Disconnect: Why Suppliers Accept Checks But Really Want ACH for Customer Payments
Although I don’t consider myself a die-hard science fiction fan,
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5 Best Practices for Transforming the Order-to-Cash Process
Managing risk is critical for any business. The larger the
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The Secret Sauce: How Suppliers Benefit From Customer Engagement – Podcast Recap
During a recent podcast, Tom Flynn, co-founder and Chief Marketing
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4 Barriers That Keep You From Reducing DSO
If you blindfold yourself and throw a stick, you can
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Part 1: What kind of suppliers take early payment discounts?
Suppliers and customers have been engaged in early payment discounts on
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Are customer portals competing directly with third-party e-Invoicing providers? Let’s see what the data suggests.
As part of our 2015 Perceptions Study, we asked Finance
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Suppliers Make the World Go Round
When it comes to commerce and all things that make
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