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Mandatory electronic invoicing in France, constraint or opportunity
Gradually, companies will be required to accept electronic invoices from their suppliers, and to be able to process them. Beyond technical constraints, this development will accelerate the digitalization of procure-to-pay processes and improve performance.
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E-Invoicing: A performance lever?
Gradually, companies will be required to accept electronic invoices from their suppliers, and to be able to process them. Beyond technical constraints, this development will accelerate the digitalization of procure-to-pay processes and increase efficiency.
www.procure.ch
Change management, multiple keys to project success
In the face of resistance of all kinds, effective change management is an essential success factor for digitalization strategies. For each project, a specific approach is required to implement the chosen solution in the best conditions, from the analysis of the existing to the support of users. The crucial communication and training stage clarifies the objectives of the project for future users.
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Seamless relationships with suppliers
Promoted by a growing number of players in the digitalization of purchasing, the concept of "Business network" has been gaining momentum in recent years. Boosted by the dematerialization of invoices, these networks make it possible to optimize interactions between business partners.
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The soul of digital transformation
In the face of multiple resistances, the ability of companies to effectively manage change management is an essential success factor in their purchasing digitalization project. A specific approach is required to implement and deploy the target digital solution in the best conditions.
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[Folder] The Automated Enterprise – Relieving Buyers Under Pressure
Recurrent crises, globalization of trade, increased risks, multiplication of regulatory constraints, etc. Under market pressure, purchases have gone from being a simple support service to a strategic function in a few years, forcing them to look for new avenues of optimization. Among them, automation provides an effective response, especially to eliminate or at least reduce many painful and time-consuming administrative tasks.
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Digitalization at the service of well-being
Digital solutions are gradually but irreversibly and profoundly changing the activities of buyers. In addition to other levers, they also contribute to the well-being and development of teams. But do they really bring the promised help, the expected comfort and especially the expected time saving? www.procure.ch
[Expert opinion] The main steps of a successful "change management"
Like any IT project, the digitalization of purchases and downstream of supplier procurement and accounting generates resistance. To deploy the target digital solution in the best conditions, a specific approach to driving change is necessary.
[Expert opinion] Change management, the soul of digital transformation
In the face of multiple resistances, the ability of companies to effectively manage the conduct of change is a key factor in the success of their purchasing digitalization project. A specific approach is needed to implement and deploy the target solution in the best conditions.
Buyers, robotize the boring tasks
In their daily lives, purchasing and accounting teams are required to carry out many time-consuming and repetitive tasks. To relieve them and free them of time: RPA, or robotic automation of processes. This innovation was the subject of the latest webinar organized by Acxias and its partner UiPath, with the testimony of the Safran group.
Artificial intelligence in support of purchases
Driven by the explosion of available data and the lower cost of computing power, artificial intelligence is sweeping through many areas. After consumer applications, it is now spreading in digital solutions of the professional world, especially in shopping. www.procure.ch
[Expert opinion] A new digital era is opening up for mid-market purchases
A growing number of ETIs and SMEs are relying on digital solutions to deploy good purchasing and procurement practices and optimize their performance. If the stakes are close to those of the large groups, their specificities and their more limited resources require specialized offers.
![[Avis d’expert] Les outils de “Digital adoption” accélèrent le déploiement des solutions](https://www.acxias.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/digital-adoption-deploiement-solution-cloud-entreprise-acxias.jpg "[Expert opinion] Digital adoption tools accelerate the deployment of solutions")
[Expert opinion] Digital adoption tools accelerate the deployment of solutions
The arrival of the cloud and advanced programming techniques has facilitated the development of a new generation of tools, both more powerful and easier to implement and use. Growing business interest did the rest.
Digital adoption platforms boost the digital experience
In order to promote the digital acculturation of companies, applications propose to guide employees in the meanderings of graphical interfaces. An emerging market in which start-ups Pendo, Whatfix and WalkMe are positioned.
[Expert opinion] Digital transformation integrates the "well-being" dimension with shopping
Le trop-plein d'outils digitaux ne risque-t-il pas de générer un stress supplémentaire ? Les solutions digitales peuvent en effet à la fois servir et desservir le bien-être. Une vraie "hygiène" digitale s'impose afin que les équipes ne se sentent pas dépassées...
SAP Ariba Forum - From Guided Buying to Automated Purchasing
Among Ariba's clients who came to show their journey in Levallois-Perret, at SAP's French headquarters, Nokia and Safran presented projects of different magnitudes, with the common point of efficiency and time freed up for buyers. The RPA robots implemented by Safran Purchasing were developed with the help of Acxias...
[Expert opinion] The digital maturity of suppliers, a key success factor
To enable purchasing departments to achieve their performance objectives, digital collaboration with suppliers has become crucial. However, their maturity in the field of e-commerce remains generally low, despite multiple advantages on both sides...
Safran's purchases at the forefront of RPA
The purchasing digitalization agency Acxias announces the deployment of two RPA (Robotic Process Automation) robots by Safran to automatically convert part of its purchase requests into orders in SAP Ariba.
When digitalization transforms shopping
Faced with ever-higher performance and competitiveness targets in an increasingly regulated global economy, purchasing managers are forced not only to change their practices but also to deploy ever more efficient digital solutions.
[Investigation] Artificial Intelligence – A "Human" Revolution
It makes the buzz ... but what does the concept of artificial intelligence actually cover? A real revolution that will no doubt change our daily lives but also the trades. Today, all large companies are thinking about how to integrate AI to automate and optimize purchasing processes...
[Business case] Safran's purchases at the forefront of RPA
Safran has deployed two RPA (Robotic process automation) robots, with the help of Acxias, to automatically convert part of its purchase requests into orders, in SAP Ariba...
Acxias launches its barometer of the digital maturity of suppliers
The digital purchasing agency specializing in the digitization of purchases and "procure-to-pay" processes Acxias announces the launch of the first survey campaign for its barometer of the digital maturity of suppliers...
[Tribune] Data at the heart of purchasing performance issues and new regulations
Realizing the impact of the quality of the information manipulated on their performance, the function places increasing importance on the tools and methods to consolidate, clean, structure and enrich the bases...
[Tribune] Business networks streamline buy-to-supplier relationships
Promoted by a growing number of players in the digitalization of purchases, the concept of "Business networks" has been gaining momentum in recent years and is shaking up the ecosystem of tools for steering the buyer-supplier relationship...
Take part in the "Digital Supplier Maturity Barometer"
This barometer, launched by Acxias, aims to measure the ability of suppliers to collaborate with their customers through digital tools and channels. All companies, regardless of their industry and size, are invited to participate.
[Tribune] IA... for Intelligence Purchases (enhanced!)
With AI, a new milestone is being reached, which aims to assist buyers in their data analysis and operational tasks: research, extraction, classification and analysis of information, automation of entire sequences of activities...
[Tribune] The ecosystem of digital purchasing solutions, in full swing
The hundred or so publishers present on the French chessboard of digital purchasing solutions are divided according to a new configuration, taking into account, among other criteria, their location, their specialization and their functional coverage...
[Tribune] E-shopping, a market driven by the rise of digital
Riding the wave of digitalization, the purchasing software market is experiencing an unprecedented dynamic, with an increase in renewal or first deployment projects. A look back at twenty years full of small stories and great twists...
[File] Tools for buyers
Le point sur les bénéfices que l'on peut attendre des 4 quatre couches principales d'un système d'information achats : les processus opérationnels "source-to-contract" et "procure-to-pay", ainsi que les différents volets de pilotage de la fonction et de gestion de la relation fournisseurs...
[Tribune] Thirteen levers of action for purchases
From the purchasing strategy to the integration of new skills, through the extension of the purchase coverage, risk mapping, the challenge of need, the management of administrative costs or better contract management: 13 levers to make the purchasing function more efficient...
[Tribune] Purchasing in the face of digital challenges
Purchasing must meet the multiple challenges, and in particular, address the challenges of digitalization of activities. To do this, new talents are needed, but also new tools that it is imperative to master to effectively meet expectations and maximize gains...
[Tribune] New economic and operational purchasing challenges
The company relies on purchases to identify and control risks, and more generally to contribute to its competitiveness and generate increasing added value, in line with the objectives and strategy of the organization. A round-up of the (many) challenges to be met...
[Tribune] Purchasing, a now mature function
In three decades, the purchasing function has been structured and professionalized to respond to new challenges mainly related to the globalization of trade and the proliferation of players. The democratization of tools has contributed to this rise in maturity...
Blockchain: towards a new revolution in e-shopping tools
New technologies are changing the direction of purchasing and their solutions. The blockchain could well be the newest to come in organizations, as early as 2017...
Acxias press releases
Acxias, “special jury prize” of the Purchasing Trophies with its video series Purple
This “special prize” awarded by Républik Achats encourages Acxias in its approach to promoting the function and solutions for digitizing the purchasing, supply chain and supplier accounting processes. The agency also intends to rely on this trophy to continue its efforts in terms of technological innovations, in connection with the SAP Ariba solution, and to communicate more about the benefits of digitalization in order to better serve the ecosystem.
Acxias named Ariba Partner of the Year by SAP
On the occasion of the last annual SAP Partner Summit, Acxias, the Digital Procurement agency, was named Ariba Partner of the Year 2021 by the publisher. Five years after the signature of the partnership, this distinction crowns the expertise acquired by the team of around fifty consultants specialized in SAP Ariba and holders of numerous certifications on the solution. To designate the winners, SAP relied on different criteria, in three areas: sales (contracts, turnover, etc.), execution (certifications, releases, etc.), innovation.
Acxias continues its growth and international development by opening a subsidiary in Mauritius
To strengthen its competitiveness and its SAP expertise, around the Ariba purchasing suite but also the main ERPs (ECC, S/4Hana) of the publisher, Acxias, the Digital Procurement agency, announces the opening of a subsidiary in Mauritius . Preferred to “nearshore” destinations, the Indian Ocean island state has many assets to offer high-level support and TMA (Third-Party Application Maintenance) services specialized in SAP Ariba and SAP ERP Procurement.
Acxias and Argonaute merge to create France's leading SAP Ariba solutions provider
Acxias, the Digital Procurement agency, and the IT consulting and services company Argonaute announce their merger to create the French leader in studies, projects and third-party application maintenance (TMA) for the SAP Ariba solution. The transaction will enable the group thus formed to consolidate its position and pursue its development on solid foundations.
Safran purchases at the forefront of RPA with acxias support
The high-tech group Safran has just deployed two RPA (Robotic process automation) robots, after becoming interested in this technology in mid-2018, with the aim of improving and accelerating the processing of part of its stable and robust processes. A preparatory phase, carried out with the support of the Information Systems Department and Acxias, first made it possible to identify the eligible processes, and to validate a first scope: the automatic transformation into orders of a purchase requisitions in SAP Ariba.
Acxias acquires A Centre of Expertise RPA
The purchasing digitization agency Acxias announces the establishment of an RPA (Robotic process automation) expertise center, made up of a team of several engineers specialized in Source-to-contract and Procure-to-pay processes under the technical direction of Guillaume Vassaux. This decision responds to the growing demand from companies for the automation of repetitive tasks within the purchasing, supply and accounts payable functions, in order to free up time for employees, while improving the quality of services and reducing management costs.
Acxias launches its Supplier Digital Maturity Barometer
Acxias, an exclusive consulting firm specializing in digitalization of purchases and procure-to-pay processes, announces the launch of the first survey campaign for its Supplier Digital Maturity Barometer. Conducted in partnership with several major contractors (RTE France, Safran, Veolia Water Technologies, etc.), but open to all companies regardless of their industry and size, this survey aims to measure the ability of suppliers to collaborate with their customers via digital tools and channels.
Acxias launches the Purchasing Digitalization Players Club
Acxias, a specialized consulting firm, announces the creation of the Club of Purchasing Digitization Actors. Reserved for purchasing departments and their teams, its creation is part of the extension of the publication by Acxias of its book "The Digitization of Purchasing - Issues, good practices and benchmark of solutions" and a first evening of thematic workshops organized on September 20.
The Digitization of Purchasing – Issues, best practices and reference guide for solutions Acxias is making its literary comeback!
Le nouvel ouvrage d'Acxias : "La Digitalisation des Achats – Enjeux, bonnes pratiques et référentiel des solutions" réalisé dans l’objectif de valoriser le métier et de contribuer à sa montée en maturité, s’articule autour de quatre chapitres principaux :
Les enjeux des achats – Évolution de la fonction achats, positionnement de la direction des achats, contours du métier d’acheteur. Les nouveaux enjeux et les réponses.
La contribution des outils – Périmètre fonctionnel du système d’information achats. Apport des solutions digitales de gestion des achats et des approvisionnements.
Le marché des solutions e-achats – Tendances générales du marché et acteurs en présence. Évolutions fonctionnelles.
Le Baromètre Acxias des solutions e-achats - Analyse des projets, évaluation des éditeurs et de leur solution par les entreprises utilisatrices.