by Robert Solomon | Feb 28, 2019 | Procure to Pay
It was not a good day to be an investor in European Procure-to-Pay stocks, specifically Basware and Proactis. Basware Basware announced it had ended talks with Tradeshift regarding Tradeshift’s possible acquisition of Basware. This break-up was not a total...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 3, 2018 | B2B Software, Supply Chain Automation
There are a surprising number of public, micro-cap companies in the supply chain software market. By virtue of their forced transparency, these companies are useful indicators of industry economics and valuations. Micro-Cap Stocks are Getting Crushed During the...
by Robert Solomon | Aug 14, 2018 | B2B Software, Indirect Spend, Procure to Pay
Even those of you who follow the procure-to-pay market may be saying to yourselves, “Who bought who?” But this small acquisition is more interesting than most because Proactis is public (PHD.L). That makes the transaction details public as well. And...
by Robert Solomon | Jan 21, 2018 | B2B Software |
A client’s marketing department recently asked me about the difference between the terms “procure-to-pay” and “source-to-pay”. The obvious difference, from a supply chain perspective, is that “source-to-pay” includes the...
by Robert Solomon | Dec 13, 2017 | B2B Software, Financial services, Real Estate
When I was at Ariba, we started by automating relatively straightforward business transactions. The transactions usually involved well-defined goods from catalogs, simple purchase orders, and invoices. Many items did not even require proof of delivery. This was an...
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