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Monday 8th December, 2014

With such cosy household names as Mr Kipling, Branson, Bisto and Ambrosia under its label, it’s easy to think of Premier Foods as a manufacturer at the top of their game. And of course, with 99% of all UK households buying a Premier product this year, in many ways they are. But struggling under a mountain of debt, the Board probably thought that it had come up with an excellent, profit-boosting scheme with the so called “Pay to Stay” supplier programme. And over the last 18 months, it’s one which has netted the firm millions of pounds.

Friday 7th November, 2014

If you think about PepsiCo at all, you’d probably think of that fizzy drink which isn’t Coke, and yet the PepsiCo brand covers a multitude of household names – like Quaker Oats, Tropicana and Doritos, with a team of over 5,000 in the UK,  spread over 13 sites. And by 2010, the end result of this expansion as far as the purchase to pay process was concerned, was one which was disjointed and lacked overall visibility.

Monday 13th October, 2014

This time last week Barcelona was playing host to the great and the good of the einvoicing world at the Exchange Summit. Although this was the first Exchange Summit, the event is actually the natural successor to the well-established EXPP conference. Picking up where EXPP left off, the Exchange Summit aims to take the einvoicing topic and broaden it to cover the increasingly related issues – such as supply chain finance for example, and the growth and importance of networks. Joannes von Mulert’s event has big ambitions, and next year’s conference, at the moment scheduled for Frankfurt, is expected to take a deeper look at some of the issues touched on last week.

30th September, 2014

Arriving on the only day of rain in September, I was only too glad to leave the drenched streets and squelch into the foyer of the QEII Exhibition Centre, Westminster – venue of the 26^th eWorld conference last week.