Presentations
You may have missed one of our conferences or shows on sharedserviceslink.com Radio, but you can still benefit from the gems revealed in this section.
Watch the presentations or listen to our interviews in your own time and digest the experiences of your peers. Their stories could make a big impact on your own initiatives.
Rolling out e-invoicing to your small and medium-sized suppliers (an SME’s perspective)
16 May 2012
In this presentation from the e-Invoicing Europe 2011, Sarianne Reinikkala, Managing Director at Finncontainers Oy Ltd, explains how to chase the tail of small and medium-sized suppliers when ramping up your electronic volumes. But how do you do it in practice? How to roll out both inbound and outbound e-invoicing as an SME What challenges do SMEs face with e-invoicing? Recommendations on how large organisations, e-invoicing providers and the industry as a whole can help increase adoption
The American Express European Indirect Spend Management Study 2011
14 May 2012
In recent years, corporations have made inroads into direct spend, increasing purchase order compliancy, channelling more spend through fewer, preferred suppliers to leverage discounts, and improving end-to-end processes. However, an area still left relatively unchecked in many organisations is indirect spend. In this session, American Express will reveal the findings from their in-depth study, which they compiled in conjunction with A.T. Kearney and sharedserviceslink.com, so you can understand the challenges, trends and opportunities in indirect spend in 2011.
The first secret to a successful implementation - engaging procurement early
9 May 2012
In this presentation from the e-Invoicing Europe 2011, Shelley Davies, Head of Global Assets for F&A at IBM, explains the first secret to a successful implementation - engaging procurement early.
Connecting finance with procurement for true end-to-end processing
7 May 2012
In this presentation from the Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing 2011, Bálint Bacsó, P2P Head at VODAFONE OPERATIONS CENTRE HUNGARY, explains how can finance and procurement departments work together better. Finance and procurement departments often don’t speak and have conflicting objectives. For a purchase-to-pay process to be highly effective, these cogs need to be aligned. How can they work together better?
Top-ten success factors to e-invoicing plus hot-off-the-press results from the pre-conference survey
Susie West | 2 May 2012
In this opening presentation from the e-Invoicing Europe 2011, Susie West, CEO of sharedserviceslink.com, opens this conference with the hot-off-the-press results from the pre-conference survey and the top-ten success factors to e-invoicing. Now is the right time for e-invoicing and Susie West will explain why. Do you want to know how the shared services world is progressing with e-invoicing and how you rank? This opening session will give you that precious insight by revealing the results of the pre-conference benchmarking survey.
How to dramatically increase your first-time match rates in three months
30 April 2012
In this presentation from the Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing 2011, Gay Thackery, P2P Process Lead at MAY GURNEY, explains how dramatically increase your first-time match rates in three months. If your invoices consistently fail to match your purchase orders (PO) and you’re missing goods-receipt notes for a three-way match, huge backlogs can occur. How can you avoid wasting resources on handling these queries and put confidence back in your business?
Business-flow blueprinting
25 April 2012
How to integrate VAT requirements in the blueprint of your SAP roll out VAT issues with SAP often occur because they are only considered after the design and scoping phase of your ERP implementation. If you are rolling out SAP to other countries or migrating to a new system, which elements must you include in your plan to minimise these problems post go-live? This is a presentation from the SAP Control for VAT Compliance conference 2011 from Hoyrin Cheung, Business Analyst and Remco Dewaerheijt, VAT manager at PPG Industries.
Centralising bank connectivity to streamline global cash management processes
23 April 2012
In this presentation from the Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing 2011, Hanna Kuukkanen, Roll-out manager at METSO FINANCIAL SERVICES, talks about how international corporations are doing business with several banks located globally and therefore often deal with proprietary banking channels and local processes. Being able to manage cash and related processes in such an environment is a challenging task.
User-acceptance testing exercise – find out where issues lie with standard SAP logic
18 April 2012
In this presentation from the SAP Control for VAT Compliance conference 2011, Roger Lindelauf, SAP Consulting Lead at Meridian International VAT Consulting walks through the SAP sales orders that are set up against these flows and execute them based on a standard SAP tax logic design in a simulated user-acceptance testing exercise (UAT).
Reverse the late-payment trend: pay over 90% of invoices to terms
16 April 2012
In this presentation from the Toning Up Purchase to Pay to Attain Touchless Processing 2011, Harri Jantunen, Head of Accounts Payable at FINNAIR, describes how using the right procedures and technologies will significantly improve the visibility of your processes and eliminate late payments.
