Susie West interviews Tungsten Network CEO Paul Cooper to find out:

- How e-invoicing and Tax are causing a long term headache for tax teams - Chapter 1
- How to see your e-invoicing program is prioritized - Chapter 2
- The 3 critical success factors to supplier onboarding - Chapter 3

Listen to these 3 short chapters if you are looking to automate invoicing or you are looking to re-invigorate a tired e-invoicing campaign and need inspiration.

Chapter 3: CEO Interview Series: Paul Cooper, CEO of Tungsten Network

Susie West interviews Taulia’s Alexander Mutter, Managing Director EMEA Sales, to find out:
 
- Supply Chain Resilience. Given global fragility, war, inflation and soaring energy prices, how can supply chains fortified? - Chapter 1

- How can companies practically see their supply chains meet their own ESG goals? - Chapter 2

- The digitization of the supply chain – the next 5 years - Chapter 3

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Part 1: CEO Interview Series: Alexander Mutter, MD Sales EMEA Taulia Inc.

Susie West interviews Taulia’s Alexander Mutter, Managing Director EMEA Sales, to find out:

- Supply Chain Resilience. Given global fragility, war, inflation and soaring energy prices, how can supply chains fortified? - Chapter 1

- How can companies practically see their supply chains meet their own ESG goals? - Chapter 2

- The digitization of the supply chain – the next 5 years - Chapter 3

Part 2: CEO Interview Series: Alexander Mutter, MD Sales EMEA Taulia Inc.

Part 3: CEO Interview Series: Alexander Mutter, MD Sales EMEA Taulia Inc.

This taut and pithy 3-part series looks at how SAP organizations are moving to a touchless close. In Chapter 1, Susie West interviews Shak Akhtar, General Manager of Finance Automation at Redwood Software, to kick off the enquiry:

1. What is the touchless close, and how is it redefining modern finance operations?

2. How will teams be reallocated?

3. How did Arla Foods reduce their month-end close from a 10-day exercise to 6 days?

4. How are companies using a touchless close to move from a reactive finance function to a proactive one?

5. Is it possible to be “always closing so you never have to”?

6. How did Siemens reduce manual tasks from 1000 to 30?

7. What are the first steps t take to move to touchless —what should be prioritized?

8. How did Jabil save 5 hours per company code during the close process?

If you are working in Record to Report and are striving to achieve a better process, press play to hear some great tips and insight from the highly-experienced Shak Akhtar.

CEO Interview Series: Unleashed: The Path to the Touchless Close

This taut and pithy 3-part series looks at how SAP organizations are moving to a touchless close. In Chapter 2, Susie West interviews Shak Akhtar, General Manager of Finance Automation at Redwood Software, on Mastering R2R Automation:


1. What are the hidden inefficiencies in R2R today, and how does automation serve as a solution?

2. Where does the bulk of manual effort sit, and why does this complicate automation efforts?

3. How did Ashland reduce their time to close by 98%?

4. What areas are often overlooked for automation and how does addressing these change the game?

5. How is Faurecia automating 32,000 journal entries a month?

R2R Unleashed: The Path to the Touchless Close Chapter 2

This taut and pithy 3-part series looks at how SAP organizations are moving to a touchless close. In Chapter 3, Susie West interviews Shak Akhtar, General Manager of Finance Automation at Redwood on Tackling Accruals, Provisions, and Reclassifications:

- How significant are the challenges around accruals, provisions, and reclassifications?

- What are the risks of not addressing them?

- In automating these complex areas, how does Redwood's solution differ from others?

- What is the impact of automating these areas on overall financial operations, such as improved decision-making, reduced close time, and increased staff satisfaction?

- How did Allianz reduce R2R processes by 86%, decreasing manual steps by 75%?

R2R Unleashed: The Path to the Touchless Close Chapter 3

This is a global problem: people in procurement have less and less time to do the job they want to do. The company wants them to be strategic – to focus on risk and cost reduction – but they are suffocating under regulations.   

Pre-Covid it was bad, but since 2020, Procurement still finds itself under an uncomfortable load of endlessly updated and added-to regulations. In the first Chapter (of 3) of my interview with Olivier Berrouiguet, CEO, SynerTrade, we will cover:

- Why and where regulations are increasing
- The impact on Procurement people and performance
- What can be done to help manage awareness across the business of this issue and rescue Procurement professionals from “going under”
- What is the scalable, long-term solution to both handle regs and be strategic

Chapter One:  Procurement People: How Are You Holding Up?

In this chapter, we will be exploring Risk in your supply chain. The quandary: You want your supply chain to be systematically in the “brace-brace” position, ready for ANY impact. AND you want your S2P and Procurement organizations to be devoting brain power to your key strategic projects. So, ideally, technology is monitoring your risk, leaving smart Procurement thinkers to develop and deliver on game-changing strategy. 

How can this happen? Especially now, when: 

- Supply chains are so expansive and complex, and risk builds – or just explodes – on a fairly regular basis?
- And visibility of risk seems to be full of dead-ends – “Where’s my clear horizontal view of every moving part in my supply chain!?!”

I will be questioning Olivier Berrouiguet, CEO, SynerTrade about: 

- The 7 risks keeping CPOs up at night – what are they and why now?
- Why now is the time to have a full horizontal view of your supply chain so you are fully aware of the risk profile for: supplier, country, category, SKU and bill of material
- What a global Energy Management and Automation giant (€35 BN) did in 2015 that meant 2020 had minimal impact
- To what degree this company could take on more business, and faster. What were the quantifiable gains?

Chapter Two: 7 Risks Keeping CPOs Up at Night

5 Rules for Happy Projects and Happy People 

Attrition in Procurement is bad. In a recent report, staff turnover in Procurement is higher than Finance. In the third and final chapter of my CEO interview with Olivier Berrouiguet, CEO, SynerTrade, I will be asking him about: 

- How to roll out an e-procurement project in less than 6 months
- How to work with SIs on e-procurement implementations
- 2 huge places where Procurement adds substantial value
- How to set up Procurement so your good people stay and flourish

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