Wednesday 21st October, 2020

Coupa Software has announced an initiative focused on making it easier for enterprises to increase their spend with diverse and inclusive suppliers. The Coupa Inclusion Initiative provides new resources, tools, and technologies, including the launch of a diverse supplier portal at supplierinclusion.com that connects buyers with diverse and inclusive suppliers to drive economic impact.

Tuesday 20th October, 2020

Pagero and Unit4 have announced a strategic partnership integrating existing Unit4 products and the next-generation Unit4 ERPx with Pagero’s global business network. The partnership aims to effectively reduce the threshold for businesses to achieve end-to-end operational excellence in the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash processes.

Unit4 customers can also leverage Pagero’s in-house compliance team to fulfil tax and e-invoicing regulations worldwide.

The partnership comes as part of a global strategy to grow the Unit4 partner ecosystem and expand its global product capabilities. Partners like Pagero play an important role in supporting and delivering customers out-of-the-box cloud solutions for global business reach. The joint offering specifically extends ERP capabilities for finance teams, the company said.

“The Pagero for Unit4 offering enables increased efficiency across the entire P2P and O2C processes. We’re very excited about the end-to-end capabilities that we now offer our mutual end customers. By joining forces and integrating our cloud platforms, Unit4 customers have new premium solutions for e-invoicing compliance, interoperability and global business reach,” says Alexander Jansson, VP of partner development at Pagero.

Beata Wright, global head of partner ecosystems at Unit4, adds: “I am very excited to welcome Pagero to the Unit4 family. Our partner ecosystem plays a very important role in extending the value of our products to customers. Our product and innovation partners, which include independent software vendors and OEM partners, have the key skills to optimise the functionality and performance of Unit4 solutions.”

Monday 19^th November, 2020

Big Four accounting firm Deloitte is set to close four of its UK offices as it reviews its property portfolio in the coronavirus pandemic.

Friday 16th October, 2020

SWIFT and UK Faster Payments have run a cross-border payments pilot based on SWIFT’s gpi instant payments service.

The latest pilot involved six banks including Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS, Wells Fargo and BBVA; and saw over 40 payments sent at an average time of around one minute.

Thursday 15th October , 2020

Celonis has announced the acquisition of Integromat, an industry leading online automation platform. This acquisition aims to deepen the automation capabilities of the Celonis Execution Management System and strengthens Celonis’ ability to unlock execution capacity trapped by customers' rigid and complex systems by intelligently automating actions across hundreds of systems in a scalable and intuitive way.

Wednesday 14th October, 2020

Mars Wrigley a leading manufacturer of confectionery brands has announced that Julia M. Brown will be joining its organisation as Chief Procurement Officer.

In her new role, Julia will be responsible for the global Procurement strategy in support of some of the world’s most iconic and favourite confectionery and snacking brands, including M&M’s, SNICKERS, EXTRA/ORBIT, TWIX, STARBURST and SKITTLES.