order-to-cash

In this episode, Manager of Credit, Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable at Peavey Industries, Mary Masson Hummel discusses the impact of inflation, the push-pull relationship between AR and AP and the direct correlation of technology efficiencies on cash flow, the customer experience and employee retention.

In this episode, AVP at Sidetrade Bill North discusses an overlooked KPI called Time-to-Invoice. For many industries, Time-to-Invoice can represent a significant value and the hidden secret to reducing DSO. If more companies were to start the clock earlier in the order-to-cash cycle, DSO would actually be all encompassing, from the time that the product or service is sold through both invoice creation and invoice delivery. 

In this episode, Chief Financial Officer at Valley National Advisors, Elizabeth Wilson discusses how increasingly important it is for CFOs to be strategists and catalysts to help shape the overall strategy and direction of the business and infuse a financial, technological and data-driven mindset into the DNA of an organization.

In this episode, Consultant and Trainer for Credit Management, Ken Young discusses the evolution of the credit management role, how to mentor the next generation of credit professionals and the importance of leading and retaining employees in today’s market conditions. 

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Chief Product Officer Rob Harvey discusses why it’s more important than ever that CFOs collaborate with CIOs, how finance departments are going beyond a cash culture to create a culture hack, and why more organizations are establishing a finance transformation role.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s Solutions Consultant Matt Hill discusses the next generation CFO and how to enable finance teams for the future to be equipped with technology for finance transformation and processes for change management.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s AVP of Presales UK, Naomi Smith discusses what keeps a CFO up at night – from supply chain fragility to risk, is digital transformation just a buzzword, and why being a data-driven CFO is now more important than ever.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s BPO Director Virginie Gupta discusses the evolution of the cash collector, why the term outsourcing is no longer seen as a negative connotation and how AI, data and outsourcing can be complementary to an in-house collections team.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s AVP Customer Success in North America Bryan Pederson discusses the market drivers affecting both the customer experience in order-to-cash and eInvoicing, including the consumerization of B2B, global regulations and compliance.

In this episode, Sidetrade’s order-to-cash automation expert Darrin Brown discusses how his extensive transportation background in credit, collections and disputes has helped receivables departments become more adaptive, fight the status quo and embrace how access to more data can lead to optimal efficiency. 

In this episode, Sidetrade Solution Consultant and former O2C practitioner, Andrea Baker, discusses why data and not cash is king in today’s order-to-cash process. Data is helping finance teams evolve credit management from a tactical necessity to a strategic asset which in turn unlocks the value of O2C to the entire organization.

In Sidetrade’s inaugural episode, Chief Product Officer Rob Harvey and Chief Technology Officer Mark Sheldon discuss the journey from tactical to strategic order-to-cash and how it begins with optimizing data, technology and operations. The pair also share best practices on the future of finance and how teams can turn O2C into a data-driven strategic advantage to help evolve the CFO into the Chief Futurist Officer.