Wednesday 17th April, 2013

Today DHL GBS has become the latest enterprise to adopt Tradeshift. In fact DHL is one of a series of major customer wins in the logistics industry for Tradeshift with Kuehne+Nagel and DSV already forming part of the family. And of course these three industry giants work with many of the same suppliers. Those suppliers often work with each other, pulling that together by working on an open platform for business interactions makes perfect sense.

Tuesday 16th April, 2013

A group of 14 leading Dutch and Finnish e-invoicing and accounting solution providers, including Basware and Anachron have joined hands to form the 'SimplerInvoicing' Initiative, a network of co-operating service providers - based on open international standards.

SimplerInvoicing aims to improve the operations of senders and receivers of e-invoices with the overall aim of achieving mass adoption for consumers, SMEs and governments.

Monday 15th April, 2013

New aquisitions, product releases and business alliances

In another demonstration of its continuing expansion, spend optimisation solution provider Coupa announced that it has acquired Xpenser, a company that enables users to record and track expenses more efficiently in the cloud. The acquisition will expand Coupa’s domain expertise and leadership in the area of expense management. The announcement was made at the Coupa INSPIRE Conference in San Francisco last week.

Thursday 11th April, 2013

A Carphone Warehouse accountant has been jailed for four years after admitting to false accounting charges. Stephen Luck, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to fake invoices amounting to more than £500,000.

Wednesday 10th April, 2013

MedAssets has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Ariba that will expand MedAssets ichain management and outsourced procurement capabilities.

The partnership offers healthcare providers and suppliers a comprehensive electronic commerce platform, including requisition to purchase order transmission, shipment notification, invoice transmission and reconciliation workflow automation, expense posting, supplier payment and early-pay discount solutions.