Over the last few weeks, we've been discussing what corporate procurement can learn from the B2C buying experience, the importance of a Search-Buy-Pay strategy, and the changing metrics of modern Procure-to-Pay. To continue our discussion, we have taken our experience with our blue-chip customer base to create a multi-part series around the value of Search - Buy - Pay to the Procure-to-Pay...

When procurement experts discuss procure-to-pay,  they most often focus on the "pay" portion. The reality is that the number of users impacted during payment is minuscule compared to the number of buyers. Consider a company that has 100 employees. Conservatively, maybe 1 or 2 of them work in accounts payable. However, at that same company, all 100 employees have probably purchased something on...