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Ditch The Silos! How We Successfully Aligned Finance and Procurement at Acco Brands to Drive P2P Excellence
Wednesday 3th March 2010
15:00 UK, 16:00 Paris, 10:00 New York
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The synergy between Procurement and Accounts Payable Automation is the secret to increasing control and achieving transparency, whilst reducing the cost of running the finance process and improving relationships with your suppliers.
However, how realistic is it to achieve this synergy across a geographically dispersed organisation and when the procurement function is simply ‘everyone else within the business’?
Improving spend control and cash flow are crucial. But while companies recognise the need to gain greater control and rein-in maverick buying, the structure and systems of most companies makes it almost impossible.
How do you ensure spending and financial policies are flexible enough to meet the needs of all buyers within the business while still delivering visibility, accurate reporting and control?
Join Jane Pilkington, European Project & Process Manager at ACCO Brands Europe, the company behind Rexel and Kensington, to discover how it is driving internal efficiency and control, and standardising processes across the European region, throughout procurement and finance.
By establishing a European shared service centre for accounts payable and implementing automated procedures to streamline purchasing processes and ensure compliance throughout the organisation, ACCO's aim is to realise savings through greater efficiency while creating a strong foundation on which to deliver its strategic sourcing project.
This webinar, sponsored by Basware, will demonstrate how to:
- Gain visibility and control on purchasing spend and processes
- Improve budget control and cost centre management
- Ensure unified reporting across the entire organisation
- Deliver flexible procurement processes for specialist and non-specialist buyers
- Use automation to reduce invoice cycle times and processing costs
- Achieve sustainable savings
If you are in finance and you realise that bonding with Procurement may be the only real way to see performance metrics significantly increase, then join this webinar now.