Last week we held our first online Purchase to Pay network event. Network Chairs Diane Bamford and Paul Wilkins hosted the session and with great attendance facilitated a truly brilliant event.
Paul began with a live Sli.do poll and the first question asked - As a result of Covid19 and the imposedrestrictions on non-essential worker movements, what impact has that had on your ability to support PTP inin your organisation? This generated many responses, including implementing more flexible working arrangements, making sure employees had sufficient work equipment set up at home, inbound calls and cheque payments.
The second question asked if organisations had, had a Business Continuity plan in place - 64% did, another 36% did but not to cover the current pandemic. The group participated in sharing their own experiences of moving to remote working and how they are keeping connected to their teams.
There was a discussion around the ongoing challenges that members are facing with supporting their organisation's PTP activity and suppliers demands. This brought about some interesting and useful challenges including, managing team performance, communication, manual interventions, struggling to contact suppliers and an increase in fraud attempts.
Mark Staniford, Global Accounts Payable Manager at Seqirus, then gave a brief member contribution about his organisation and his role within the organisation over the last 13 months.
The session finished up some with a discussion on future topics and the next event which we will confirm as soon as we can if it will be a face to face or online event.
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