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Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 3: Addressing Operational Challenges Early- [PRO Content]
March 23, 2021 |David Gustin

In this Spend Matters PRO series, you have been tasked with a mandate from your CFO to find a way to offer early pay finance to ALL suppliers and create a “win/win” with your supply base. The previous two parts of the series looked at how to assess your current situation, the spend funnel and…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 2: Understanding Addressable Spend & Early Pay Options- [PRO Content]
March 22, 2021 |David Gustin

In this five-part Spend Matters PRO series, we will explore how businesses can approach paying suppliers early given the business’s current baseline and legacy situation. Today, we focus on understanding addressable spend and the various early pay options. For this series, here are the five stages for tackling your payables strategy: Stage 1 — Assessing Your…
Payable Strategies for the Long Tail Suppliers — Stage 1: Assessing Your Current Situation- [PRO Content]
March 18, 2021 |David Gustin

In this five-part Spend Matters PRO series, we will help companies address how to approach paying suppliers early given your current baseline and legacy situation. If you’ve been tasked with a mandate from your CFO to find a way to offer early pay finance to all (or a vast majority) of suppliers and create a…
TransferMate跨境p -解决方案概况ayments capabilities- [PRO Content]
September 30, 2020 |David Gustin

This Spend Matters PRO brief looks at the TransferMate solution and how the payments provider handles cross-border transactions. More and more, companies are engaged on a cross-border basis as marketplace sellers — to pay freelancers, to handle global SaaS subscriptions or just to make payments not only to vendors but in support of contractors, one-off…
Updated! CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: Procure-to-pay (P2P) keeps the cash flowing during the crisis- [PRO Content]
March 26, 2020 |Xavier Olivera

Updated April 24: This installment of our Coronavirus Response series has been updated with a profile of a solution that can help with payment automation on a global scale — and because of the COVID-19 disruptions, a special offer has been extended to guilds, nonprofits and trade groups to get free access to the solution.…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 9: Defining the ‘Post-Close’ Plan)- [PRO Content]
December 31, 2019 |Jason Busch

In this Spend Matters Nexus brief, we’ll look at our final tip (No. 20!) for sellers to get the most from a liquidity event when raising a large growth capital round or selling to private equity or strategic buyers. This tip, defining the “post-close” plan, may seem like a simple follow-on effort that you can…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 8: Knowing Your Weaknesses)- [PRO Content]
October 29, 2019 |Jason Busch

In this Spend Matters Nexus brief, we’ll look at our next-to-last tip for sellers to optimize the outcomes of an exit process/liquidity event when selling to private equity or strategic buyers. Tip 19, know your weaknesses, may sound simple, but it is an area where blindspots are more common than 360-degree vision. Our tip today…
Defining AP Automation Functional Requirements (Part 5: Payment Options and Early Payment Financing)- [PRO Content]
October 10, 2019 |Xavier Olivera

In the last installment of this five-part Spend Matters PRO series on accounts payable automation, we’ll list the functional requirements for payment options, like P-cards and financing programs. AP automation capabilities vary dramatically between different software providers, and the capabilities a finance or procurement organization will require to support the automation of AP processes also…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 3: Before the Process — Third-Party Validated Analysis and the Importance of Understanding the Strategic Buyer Landscape)- [PRO Content]
September 12, 2019 |Jason Busch

Aside from companies already owned by private equity firms, it is the rare solution provider — or any company — that is selling to private equity, going out for a later investment round or seeking a strategic buyer that has prepared adequately for the transaction process in such a way that the efforts will fully…
Coupa financial results: Delving into another strong quarter- [PRO Content]
September 5, 2019 |Jason Busch

Earlier this week, Coupa reported its Q2 results for fiscal 2020, achieving revenue of over $95 million (a near 55% increase year-over-year, primarily from organic growth). The quarterly revenue performance beat analysts’ estimates, and non-GAAP EPS was also above expectations, although cash flow from operating activities declined quarter-over-quarter. Regardless, investors cheered the results, helping Coupa…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 2: Before the Process — TAM and Scenario Planning)- [PRO Content]
August 27, 2019 |Jason Busch

Many solution providers’ executive teams that we have observed are not as prepared to enhance their chances of optimal private equity, investment and M&A outcomes. This Spend Matters Nexus series provides insight from the thousands of hours we have spent working with private equity groups, CEOs and boards to evaluate acquisition targets — and with…
20 Tips to Maximize Private Equity, Investment and Strategic Buyer Outcomes (Part 1: Preparing Wisely)- [PRO Content]
August 21, 2019 |Jason Busch

In recent years, we’ve spent thousands of hours working with private equity groups, CEOs and boards to evaluate acquisition targets — and with sellers to optimize exit scenarios and outcomes in the procurement solution market. In each M&A advisory or SolutionMap due diligence benchmark engagement, there has not been a single study in which we…

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