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360 Degree Controls Technology: How Delta Air Lines Protects Against Disruption

Ultimate Supplier Management - November 19, 2021 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Airlines have to deal with disruptions more than any industry. Through it all, the Delta procure-to-pay team has focused on staying a step ahead of the game.    This presentation will look at the challenges Delta has faced through the years, the proactive P2P technology investments they’ve made ...

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Adidas Agility: Explosive Shared Services Growth

Ultimate Supplier Management - November 19, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Global Process Owners Europe, Virtual Event Hosted by SSON Speakers: Cristiana Rodrigues, Director GBS Operations Accounts Payables & T&E at Adidas Phil Beane, Senior Vice President, Global Field Ops at apexanalytix Webinar slides: https://bit.ly/3CnnnKU Webinar video: https://www.apexanalyt...

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Learn How Kimberly-Clark Put Itself in the Top 14% of AP Departments: 3 Steps to Turn AP into a Profit Center

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 29, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Only 14% of AP departments are a profit center. (apex 2021 survey) Kimberly-Clark is part of that elite group. So…we enlisted AP veteran Kevin Jacobik (also an Army veteran, dad and has a huge COVID beard) to talk about how Kimberly-Clark does what most companies don’t. "I am excited about ta...

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Get in and Drive! Data Governance Tools Buying Best Practices to Accelerate Supplier MDM

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 28, 2021 17:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Laying the groundwork for good supplier data governance started with figuring out what granular aspects of supplier MDM were different from other domains like customer and item. First, Karen Coronado, the data governance team and stakeholders throughout the company established the Supplier MDM g...

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Best In Class vs. Everybody Else: Procurement Metrics That Matter 2021

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 28, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Are you in procurement, sourcing, supply chain? Want the freshest data on procurement key performance indicators? Watch this webinar featuring data from the 2021 Ardent Partners Report: Procurement Metrics that Matter. Supplier enablement? Up! Contract-compliant transactions? Up! Addressable sp...

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Albertsons: Supplier Management Best Practice Trailblazer - Mastering Supplier Data Across Systems, Departments and Processes with the Power of AI

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 26, 2021 13:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Post-merger with Safeway, Albertsons launched a series of business transformation projects.  For one, Gregg Maxwell, Group Vice President, NSC wanted the future of supplier onboarding. In this webinar, Gregg talks about how they reduced 170,000 supplier records to 70,000 active vendors. He’ll e...

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Riding the Wind Into 2021: The State of Procurement

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 15, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Presenting deep insights into procurement and the CPO’s hopes and plans for 2021, apexanalytix joins Ardent Partners and Independence Blue Cross (IBX) in this data-packed podcast. Findings from the State of Procurement 2021 report are presented, with commentary from head of procurement and stra...

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AP Metrics that Matter in 2021

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 15, 2021 13:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
2020 was the turning point for virtual everything: work-from-home, remote learning, online socializing. Disruption drove automation from a “nice-to-have” to a “must-do,” in procure-to-pay. And not only for the largest companies, but into the mid-market as well. Listen to Gerard Cardillo, procur...

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Push the DPO Envelope: Leverage AI to Optimize Payment Terms and Working Capital

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 15, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
apexanalytix’s research has shown that 25.73% vendor invoice terms are better for the supplier than the original negotiated terms. This podcast dives into how payment terms get changed and financial impact to working capital. And, more importantly, how every supplier can be assessed against prev...

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Get Straight to the Point: How Panasonic is Eliminating Everything Manual and Bringing Control to Supplier Management

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 15, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Need to onboard a supplier? Email Nick. Need to update a supplier tax ID? Email Nick. Need to update a supplier bank account? Email Nick. Nick has a lot of supplier onboarding and update requests. Some of them have all the info he needs. Most of them require an email back requesting more info...

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Supplier Risk Management: Mitigation Tactics and Recommendations to Prepare for the Next Disruption

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 15, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
2021 is the year of building resilience across the supply chain. But our Dec. 2020 survey, showed that 60% of respondents either have a limited or no supplier risk management program in place. This podcast is for everyone looking to expand or start a supplier risk management program. Defining S...

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Don’t Get Duped: How PepsiCo is Getting Rid of Duplicate Vendors and Duplicate Payments

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 14, 2021 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Processing over 8 million invoices in the US is a lot. More than a lot. PepsiCo knows that even if they are the best run accounts payable (AP) operation, they will make overpayments. So every year PepsiCo has apexanalytix perform an AP recovery audit. PepsiCo spends a minimal amount of time app...

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Transforming Supplier Data with Northwestern Medicine and Procurement Foundry

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 14, 2021 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Mike Cadieux, Founder of Procurement Foundry, was joined by Amy Platis, Program Director of Finance at Northwestern Medicine, and Akhilesh Agarwal, SVP of Global Business Partner Technology Solutions at apexanalytix. Ms. Platis shared how Northwestern Medicine transformed their vendor data from...

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Not If, But When: How to Stop Payment Fraud Even If Your Systems Have Been Hacked

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 14, 2021 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The FBI reported $26.2 Billion dollars lost to Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud in the past three years.1 If defrauding companies was legal, the hackers would be on the cover of Forbes for being innovative. Teams of hackers have invested time, money and resources to trick accounts payable...

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How General Mills Puts Cash on the Table with AP Reviews

Ultimate Supplier Management - October 14, 2021 14:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jeff Heinrich, Global Process Lead for P2P at General Mills, is a champion of procure-to-pay best practices. General Mills continuously refines SAP to catch duplicate payments then the AP team runs an internal review as a secondary pass. The company also relies on apexanalytix to complete a 90-d...

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Corcentric Conversations | Jennifer Ulrich: Increasing Procurement Maturity and Agility in Parallel

Corcentric Podcasts - April 27, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  The disruptions of the last year have made a strong, independent business case for procurement teams and professionals to become more agile. The fact that each organization is in a different place on their maturity journey, however, means that a...

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Corcentric Conversations | Patrick Baumgardner: Change Management for Implementation Success

Corcentric Podcasts - November 16, 2020 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  All projects have two sides: the technical side and the ‘people’ side. Both need to be actively managed for the project to be a success. The more people that will need to use a system in order to realize the intended ROI, the more investment the ...

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Corcentric Conversations | Mark Joyce and Jeffrey Grosman: The Value of Guaranteed Order-to-Cash Business Outcomes

Corcentric Podcasts - October 20, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Given the complexities all companies have faced in 2020, there are two common goals that, while simple, are top of mind regardless of industry or size: 1. To have cash flow, and 2. to have predictable cash flow. Fortunately, an improved order-to-...

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Corcentric Conversations | Jennifer Ulrich: The Competitive Advantage Associated with a Diverse Supply Base

Corcentric Podcasts - September 21, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Supplier diversity initiatives represent a prime opportunity for procurement to act upon many of the strategies most important to beyond-savings value creation: collaborating with stakeholders, innovating with the supply base, securing the buy-in...

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Corcentric Conversation | Sean Regan: The Value of Spend Management to Private Equity and Portfolio Companies

Corcentric Podcasts - August 14, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Leading companies know the value proposition of a well-run, digitally-enabled procurement function. Strategic procurement delivers savings, risk mitigation, supplier innovation, and spend visibility. That said, there is more than one kind of comp...

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Corcentric Conversations | Sean Regan: The Value of Spend Management to Private Equity and Portfolio Companies

Corcentric Podcasts - August 14, 2020 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Leading companies know the value proposition of a well-run, digitally-enabled procurement function. Strategic procurement delivers savings, risk mitigation, supplier innovation, and spend visibility. That said, there is more than one kind of comp...

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Corcentric Conversations | Lee Allen: Leveraging eInvoicing to Improve Cash Flow While Building Business Resilience

Corcentric Podcasts - June 22, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  eInvoicing might have been thought of as a ‘nice to have’ element of procurement technology – that is until the whole world was suddenly working from home, virtually overnight. Now, companies that did not transform their invoicing processes to ge...

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Corcentric Conversations | Dan Andrew: The Importance of Digitization to a Remote Workforce

Corcentric Podcasts - April 27, 2020 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Digitization has been a high priority for procurement for years, although not for the reasons we need it today. The challenges associated with supporting and managing a remote workforce have dominated the headlines in recent weeks as companies a...

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Corcentric Conversations | Brian Seipel: Re-evaluating Supplier Relationships with Peter Kraljic

Corcentric Podcasts - April 27, 2020 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  In the early 1980’s Peter Kraljic proposed his two-by-two matrix as a way of informing the B2B negotiating process. Back then, procurement nearly always approached supplier decisions with a three-bids-and-a-buy process and formulaic negotiating ...

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Corcentric Conversations | Diego De La Garza: Why Spend Analysis?

Corcentric Podcasts - April 27, 2020 10:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Hosted By Kelly Barner of Buyers Meeting Point.  Spend analysis is probably the closest thing procurement has to ‘an oldie but a goodie.’ It has been the basis of our sourcing and spend management activities for as long as most of us can remember. But can a historical record of purchase transac...

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Payables Friction Index | Ending the Payables Pain of Invoice Management

Corcentric Podcasts - November 04, 2019 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
In order to efficiently manage payables, you need to streamline the entire process that make payments possible, like invoice processing and approval workflow. Yet roadblocks persist.  Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric tells Karen Webster how the understanding of efficiency gains and a ...

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Payables Friction Index | Taking a Platform Approach to ePayables Adoption

Corcentric Podcasts - October 07, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Transitioning to ePayables answers two main pain points for AP: fraud and manual reconciliation. Yet neither buyers nor suppliers feel enough pain to eliminate their dependence on payments via paper checks. Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric tells Karen Webster how the re-emergence of p...

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Payables Friction Index

Corcentric Podcasts - June 18, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Accounts payable (AP) processes are anything but efficient, mired in paper and manual labor. Waiting for the fax machine to break is no spur of change, either. However, as Matt Clark, president and COO of Corcentric tells Karen Webster, focusing on people, process and, of course, automation can ...

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Bringing Technology to the Back Office | Lessons Learned: Episode 10

Corcentric Podcasts - January 24, 2019 15:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Conversations with Doug Clark, Corcentric Chairman and CEO.  “You have to be people to people, in front of your customers, suppliers also.” There’s a lot to be learned from a CEO whose company has been on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies nine times. In this series of in...

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Bringing Technology to the Back Office | Lessons Learned: Episode 9

Corcentric Podcasts - January 24, 2019 14:00 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Conversations with Doug Clark, Corcentric Chairman and CEO “You have to be people to people, in front of your customers, suppliers also.” There’s a lot to be learned from a CEO whose company has been on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies nine times. In this series of inte...

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