Purchasing and Accounts Payable


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How to gain a 360 view of the supplier base to streamline your procurement system.

Is Indirect Spending Weighing You Down?

Depending on the industry, indirect spending accounts for 18-35% of a company's global revenue. The REL Consultancy's new paper discusses how to Increase your cash-flow by working capital optimizations of indirect expenses.

Flush with Cash: Putting your cash reserves to work in procure-to-pay

U.S. companies now sit on cash reserves of about $2 trillion. With money markets generating limited returns, one of the best investments around is using that cash to drive better purchasing and payment practices through alternative solutions such as purchasing cards, early payment discounts and supply chain financing.

From source-to-settle: Freeing cash from accounts payable

Releasing cash from your accounts payable requires more than managing cost savings or completing audit actions. It demands a clear understanding of where the money goes, a holistic review of your entire S2S process, a re-engineering of that process, and finally, the creation of a new set of metrics that ensures the process continues to function at a high level and even improve.

Top 5 Mistakes When Extending Supplier Payment Terms

In response to the challenging economy, many companies are extending supplier payment terms. However, if done incorrectly, this action can cause more problems than it solves. Learn the top five mistakes that companies tend to make.

Top ten questions every Chief Procurement Officer should ask

Quantify and maximize the savings opportunity that exists in your organisation by answering these top 10 questions.

Research

REL provides intelligence and insight on how companies can achieve corporate ambition through the liberation of cash. We are dedicated to providing senior executives with fact-based performance metrics and best practices through proprietary research publications. Executives realize that in a volatile era, there is no substitute for cash. No matter how much revenue you recognize or how many assets you have on your books, the simple and enduring truth is that the only enterprises that survive are those that generate enough cash to keep their operations running.