Change of management at SAP The German publisher has announced the decision of its CEO, Bill McDermott, not to renew his contract. He is replaced by Jennifer Morgan (48) and Christian Klein (39), members of the Board of Directors, who previously held the positions of Head of Cloud Business Lines and Director of Cloud Business Lines, respectively.
To meet the growing demand from companies for robotic solutions for their purchasing, procurement and accounting suppliers, Acxias has just established a dedicated RPA (Robotic Process Automation) expertise centre. Comprised of a team of several engineers specializing in Source-to-contract and Procure-to-pay, this center aims to facilitate projects to automate repetitive and tedious operations, to maximize gains.
More than 500 purchasing decision-makers, DAF and DSI had ticked the date in their agenda. On the evening of Thursday, May 21, six publishers and e-purchase providers (BravoSolution, Coupa, Ivalua, MyProcurement, SAP-Ariba, SynerTrade) were able to present their vision of the offer and the projects in front of a packed house, in the preamble to the presentation of a White Paper on the function's information systems.
To automatically convert part of its purchase requests into orders, the international high-tech group has opted for RPA (Robotic process automation) robots, implemented by Acxias.
Corcentric Completes Acquisition of Determine Two months after the preliminary announcement, the U.S. provider of procurement and financial process automation solutions has completed the acquisition of substantially all of Determine's assets, following approval by both companies' boards of directors and shareholders. The $32 million operation is expected to...
Almost unanimously, purchasing-logistics and IT executives recognize the benefit of this up-and-going decision-making technology in their field. However, only 17% say they have implemented a big data solution. The approach aims to facilitate the combined exploitation of information already held by the company, in more or less structured form, and information from multiple external sources, in various and varied formats.
Près de trois entreprises sur quatre (73 %) disposeraient aujourd’hui d’une direction des achats indirects, selon la 4ème édition de l’unique enquête consacrée à ce sujet, réalisée chaque année en marge de l’événement Achats Indirects & Digital Meet-up organisé par l’agence de digitalisation des achats Acxias et le cabinet Ressource Consulting. Elles étaient 61 % dans ce cas en 2017, et seulement 44 % en 2016.
After the increase expected for 2018, for a total turnover of 12.4 billion euros, the French software publishing market should decline slightly in 2019.
Putting forward an effective purchasing, accounting and finance strategy will increasingly involve choosing the tools best suited to the profile of your company and its short and long-term objectives.
A brief overview by Acxias, who walked the aisles and followed a few presentations of the 2018 edition of the Solutions e-Achats trade show for you.
