Ultimate Supplier Management

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Ultimate Supplier Management

Welcome to the Ultimate Supplier Management podcast from apexanalytix. This podcast features procure-to-pay leaders and how they are creating efficiencies, protecting against fraud and accelerating initiatives across their organization. The episodes are audio versions of apexanalytix webinars with slides and video in the episode descriptions. www.apexanalytix.com

  1. 04/15/2022

    How Hershey’s is Kissing Overpayments Goodbye

    “It’s a project with an infinite internal rate of return,” says Sanjay Singh, Hershey’s VP of Internal Audit. “How many dollars of chocolate would we have to sell to equal a million in recoveries?” He knew that a recovery audit was a good idea from his experience and the benchmarking he does with industry peers. He, Jay Cheedella, VP Global Business Services, and Jonathan Laubenstine, Senior Director of Internal Audit, have been overseeing the project that’s already added ov...

    49 min

  2. 04/15/2022

    How JetBlue Prevents Fraud, Duplicate Payments and Fines

    Joni Geurts, Director, Accounts Payable & Fraud at JetBlue Airways, tells her story of joining the AP department and addressing the biggest issue for her team: limited visibility into SAP.She couldn’t get the information she needed about suppliers, identify duplicate payments or flag suspicious supplier payments as potentially fraudulent. Attend this webinar to hear how she addressed these issues with complementary apexanalytix solutions to fill SAP gaps. Additionally, she will discuss th...

    17 min

  3. 04/13/2022

    Getting Diverse Supplier Spend to 26%

    A frequent question that Chuck Stefanosky, Supplier Diversity Director at Independence Blue Cross, receives is “How do I set my company’s supplier diversity goals?” Chuck’s answer every time: match the diversity of your workforce and suppliers with the community you serve.This strategy has helped guide Independence Blue Cross’ award-winning DEI program for 35 years and helped it grow its annual spend with diverse suppliers to 26%. With the program reporting directly to procurement, they ...

    28 min

  4. 02/21/2022

    AP Steps Out of Its Comfort Zone: Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2022

    Dig into the brand new 2022 findings from the annual, global, AP Metrics that Matter Report with report author Bob Cohen of Ardent Partners, P2P senior executive Kevin Jacobik of Kimberly-Clark and market and product strategy leader Danny Thompson of apexanalytix.AP has a fresh opportunity to rewrite the script on best practices as we slowly turn the corner from massive business, economic and social system disruption. Kevin knows a thing or two about AP best practices since he runs one of the...

    53 min

  5. 02/21/2022

    Hot Yoga, Cool Clothes, Better Shared Services Processes: How lululemon Improves its Finance Operations After Massive Growth

    Jose Sorondo joined lululemon as Director, Global Finance Shared Services in 2018 and has helped the company by leading finance shared services during its rocket ship growth.It takes a lot of suppliers to run a fast-paced apparel company. In AP, once in a while, one of these suppliers would call to say: “There has been an error in the payment received.” During massive growth, duplicate payments happen. Having suppliers point this out is amazing. But how many didn’t call the AP desk? And, on a...

    49 min

  6. 01/04/2022

    One Leader’s Proven Formula to Dramatically Improve Finance and GBS Operations

    Call Nigel Coffey a change agent, or call him a serial innovator. Everywhere Nigel takes on a new leadership challenge, he executes a program that adds tangible bottom-line value to his new organization. Starting with industry benchmarking, following with an audit of payments to suppliers to identify root cause issues and control weaknesses, and progressing through a systematic program of automation, Nigel has succeeded time and time again in moving each company to world-class procure-to-pay ...

    42 min

  7. 01/03/2022

    How an Acquisition Helped CommScope Improve Shared Services and Enhance Recoveries

    Moving to a shared services environment allowed CommScope’s finance team to have a greater focus on improving operations while realizing greater efficiencies, cost savings, and proactive measures to ensure tax compliance.CommScope acquired Arris Communications and observed that Arris was utilizing apexanalytix for AP recovery audits. This service provided an external review of payments and outlined opportunities to prevent overpayments in the future.As part of CommScope’s continuous improveme...

    50 min

  8. 12/15/2021

    Rapid Response: How Koch Business Solutions Addressed Their Bank Account Fraud Variances

    In partnership with apexanalytix, this ASUG podcast will deliver insights designed to support your work with SAP technology.When Koch Business Solutions realized it needed to stay in front of the growing risks around supplier payment fraud—as well as build an efficient, leading practices workflow for supplier setup and maintenance—it was motivated to find and implement an automated supplier onboarding solution that included risk and fraud validations.If you are also interested in improving ef...

    48 min
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Welcome to the Ultimate Supplier Management podcast from apexanalytix. This podcast features procure-to-pay leaders and how they are creating efficiencies, protecting against fraud and accelerating initiatives across their organization. The episodes are audio versions of apexanalytix webinars with slides and video in the episode descriptions. www.apexanalytix.com

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  • Creator
    apexanalytix
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2022 APEX Analytix, LLC.
  • Show Website
    Ultimate Supplier Management

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