Tag Archive - Supply Chain Performance

How to Improve Your Cash-Flow: Part 2

In the first part of this blog we talked about the main components of good cash-flow management.

The components were: forecasting your cash-flow, evaluating terms with your trading partners and having a good system to enforce payment discipline from your customers. They are essential to improving your cash-flow and making your balance sheet healthier.

 

Here are three best practices that help you achieve a stronger balance sheet:Cash flow

1. Full Visibility

In order to have full visibility you must be able to see if your invoices have been sent, received, read, queried and resolved. A real-time tracking system allows you to trace all invoices from the moment they’re sent up to the time that payment is received. This means that you can deal with any invoice issues or queries as they arise and speed up the dispute resolution process. Continue Reading…


Posted on February 28, 2013 in Cash Flow Management, Celtrino Express, eBilling by
Tagged as , , , , , , ,
Comments Off

Who Can Benefit from Celtrino Express? An Interview with John Behan

Celtrino Express provides a document transaction platform for moving information between supply chain partners securely and with a full audit trail history to provide transparent reporting of processing progress. John Behan, Director at Celtrino, explains more about the potential applications of Celtrino Express.

John Behan, Director at Celtrino, explains the key benefits of Celtrino Express e-Billing Service

John Behan, Director at Celtrino

Transferring documents electronically between businesses has always been a trade-off between simplicity with error, such as when using email, or extremely complex to prevent these errors, such as traditional EDI. Neither of these approaches is ideal as online businesses move towards a more social model,” said Behan, which is why Celtrino Express has been specifically designed to be simple and intuitive to use whilst providing a secure mechanism for transparent audit trail creation and workload reduction.”

Continue Reading…


Posted on May 25, 2012 in Celtrino Express, Celtrino Platform, EDI, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management by
Tagged as , , , , , , ,
1 Comment

An introduction to Celtrino Express from Ken Halpin

The latest innovation from Celtrino is the new Celtrino Express platform designed to improve supply chain performance by reducing the administrative costs associated with business document transfer. Celtrino Express is a web based trading partner portal which allows for audited document transfer ensuring that critical information gets to the correct party whilst being as simple to use as popular websites like Facebook.

Celtrino Express e-billing

Continue Reading…


Posted on May 23, 2012 in Celtrino Express, e-Invoicing, eBilling, Electronic Billing, Supply Chain Performance by
Tagged as , , , , , , ,
2 Comments

Report Calls on Multinationals to Reduce Carbon Emissions

A new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in conjunction with Accenture has called on multinational companies to further reduce their emissions throughout their entire supply chain. The CDP analysed 49 global companies and 1800 of their suppliers to ascertain just how well they were doing in meeting their emissions reduction targets.

The survey included household names like L’Oréal, Philips and Walmart and found that 43% of them had managed to make annual reductions in their own emissions. Somewhat less impressive was the 28% of their suppliers having achieved any kind of year-on-year reduction.

Carbon emission reduction by implementing integrated supply chain solutions

Continue Reading…


Posted on April 20, 2012 in Report, Supply Chain Integration, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Performance by
Tagged as , , , , , , , , , ,
Comments Off

Electronic Ledger Alignment and Cash Flow Management – via Cloud Computing

The below describes an original, cost effective way to improve your organisation’s cash flow by implementing electronic general ledger accounting software in the cloud.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to drop us an comment, tweet or e-mail and we’ll be sure to get back to you.

 


Posted on December 8, 2011 in Cash Flow Management, Celtrino Platform, Cloud Computing, Electronic Ledger Alignment, Supply Chain Management by
Tagged as , , , , , , , , ,
Comments Off

Supply Chain Performance – You Need Metrics

The drive for efficiencies and savings often leads a business to consider the performance of their supply chain. Logically, if bottlenecks within the supply chain can be eliminated, time and cost savings will be a natural by-product.

But in order to identify and recognise a potential saving, a business needs to understand exactly how their current supply chain is operating, its costs in terms of tiSupply Chain Performance - Measurementme and money, and the exact stages between raw materials coming in and finished products leaving at the other end. To carry out an accurate supply chain analysis it is therefore essential to identify the metrics of measurement which will be used to quantify each element, establishing an initial benchmark against which future improvements can be measured.

During the first attempt at benchmarking, businesses should record the metrics which are vital to their operations. Rather than starting with the tiny details, look at the larger processes as this is where many of the major cost savings will probably be found. Measurement of metrics take time to acquire so patience is required to define an accurate starting benchmark. Given this, businesses should not feel pressured to implement changes immediately. A large number of small refinements to a supply chain often have a far greater positive impact than a single big-bang overhaul.

The collection of supply chain statistics are not the overall goal of the metrication process either. The data collected should be used to help inform changes and future developments, otherwise the whole process will actually cause more wastage; time is better spent working in an inefficient system than in collecting information and statistics which serve no wider purpose.

Finally, it is important that identification of weaknesses within a supply chain should not be hidden or ignored. Each failure or breakdown identified during analysis should be viewed positively as a chance for your company to grow, to learn and to excel, reaping additional benefits in the process.


Posted on December 5, 2011 in Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Performance by
Tagged as , , , , ,
1 Comment

Electronic Ledger Alignment – Are we on the same page?

T letter in the Electronic Ledger Alignment articlehe speed with which a business can obtain and assimilate accurate information directly affects the agility of a company by allowing for quicker, more educated strategic decisions to be taken. And in market conditions where increased agility can spell the difference between great success and epic failure, any tool which can assist decision-making will inevitably prove its worth. Enter Electronic Ledger Alignment.

What?

Electronic Ledger Alignment allows for immediate identification of the differences between the creditors’ and debtors’ ledgers at each of your connected trading partners. An eLedger Alignment system posts invoices into their customer’s general ledger automatically, ensuring that the ledger at both companies is accurate and up-to-date.

Essentially automated Ledger Alignment updates the general ledgers of each member of the supply chain to ensure that every single member’s ledger is accurate and up-to-date.

 Why?

General Ledger reconciliation system allows a business to make quicker cash management decisions based on the increased visibility and transparency inherent in such a system. Businesses are assured that their invoices are received and entered onto client systems automatically, reducing the time taken by traditional invoice submission and manual re-entry.

A Ledger Alignment software ensures that reconciliation reports are accurate at each stage of the chain, helping to keep every member fully informed of payment status. The automated submission and entry of invoices allows for easy identification of missing invoices, further reducing the time it takes to resolve any dispute which may arise and speeding a resolution.eLedger Alignment

eLedger Alignment not only provides cost savings based on the reduction in effort and error-checking associated with invoicing and payment, but also potentially allows for a reduction in headcount. Businesses also stand to benefit from a deeper level of trust between suppliers and customers as each can take confidence from the accounting accuracy that Ledger Accounting software introduces into the supply chain.

Celtrino’s Smart Admin platform provides all of the functionality of Electronic Ledger Alignment without requiring extensive onsite re-configuration or installations. Smart Admin automates invoice submission and reconciliation reporting, allowing businesses to focus on other key business functions, safe in the knowledge that their general ledger, and that of their customers, are both fully up-to-date and accurate.


Posted on November 11, 2011 in B2B Platform in the Cloud, Electronic Ledger Alignment, SaaS, Smart Admin by
Tagged as , , , , , , , ,
1 Comment

Electronic despatch advice: real time tracking of delivery information

Read how automation of delivery information (in form of electronic despatch advices or advance shipping notices) can optimise your supply chain performance.


Posted on October 20, 2011 in Advanced Shipping Notice, Electronic Despatch Advice, Smart Admin, Supply Chain Integration, Supply Chain Performance by
Tagged as , , , , , , ,
Comments Off