When it comes to bringing B2B to best eProcurement practices, several steps need to be taken, a recent whitepaper from procurement marketplace Vinimaya found. PYMNTS talked with Vinimaya’s head of accounting management, Donald Carrington, about how firms can bring procurement to the electronic age –...
Halloween has not so much happened yet, but that has not stopped a shocking and frankly dismaying number of Americans from jumping the gate and getting the drop on their Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa gifts. According to a recent poll by CreditCards.com, 32 million Americans have already...
As in so many areas in life, "The Godfather" can offer up a few nuggets on how to wrangle with the ad-blocking mafia.
Retailers have always worked on a sliding schedule: release a product, wait a few months, check the sales data to measure performance and adjust prices accordingly. In the age before computers and eCommerce, this was a comparatively leisurely timetable. Now, retailers that fail to adapt in...
How the heck can a celebrity lifestyle brand stay afloat while selling $300 T-shirts that consumers openly mock? The answer may lie in entertainment value – which is as big a business as any.
Every retailer wants consumer loyalty, but building and maintaining such programs comes at a significant cost. How much are companies spending on them...and how much should they? And are there situations when -- based on results -- enough is enough?
Small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses are eager to launch their operations outside national borders and ink deals with foreign companies and customers. But new research from Euler Hermes finds that these overseas corporate buyers are ditching out on the bill, and this non-payment is becoming...
There is so much talk about the need for B2B procurement to move from legacy processes and into a more advanced, B2C-like experience. Call it the “Amazon Factor,” if you will: Today, innovators want to make corporate buying as easy as it already is to...
As more companies embrace digital payments at the expense of paper checks, Bottomline Technologies sees benefits for enterprises of all stripes moving into the Cloud for B2B needs – and it’s not just about cost savings.
