The business-to-business (B2B) marketplace has, through the past few years, been getting a digital makeover. And the emergence of platform models, with payments and financing embedded into the platforms themselves — changing the dynamics between buyers and suppliers — has been attracting investor interest and...
As costs remain higher for longer and inflation remains a key consideration as CFOs manage their firms through a series of challenges, Shep Hickey, CEO of Bryzos, told PYMNTS that executives can leverage a growing number of tools to streamline their payments processes. And, in...
The industrial economy has long been in need of a digital makeover. The mainstays of industry — where things are made, the tangible goods from semiconductor chips to cars to industrial agriculture (fertilizers, etc.) to … well you name it — have yet to fully...
The process of getting rid of paper invoices and checks may not be new, but the drive to solve this old problem is generating some new thinking — especially when it comes to the transformation of big, old, dirty industries. That creativity is bringing some...
October 30, 2024
Industrial sectors have been feeling the weight of a slow-moving, high-friction procurement process for decades. Endless supplier coordination, manual paperwork, lengthy wait times, and the countless resources spent sunk in back-and-forths with salespeople have turned what should be simple transactions into logistical nightmares for businesses. Take metal distribution and wholesaling. It’s a $270 billion business, and […]
November 16, 2023
As costs remain higher for longer and inflation remains a key consideration as CFOs manage their firms through a series of challenges, Shep Hickey, CEO of Bryzos, told PYMNTS that...
October 17, 2022
The global economy is in whipsaw mode. So are many of the smokestack industries that supply the basic raw materials that go into constructing all manner of end products, from...
May 05, 2022
There’s nothing more representative of the smokestack economy, nothing more analog, even essential, than steel. The steel industry itself is complex, global in scope, and comprises all manner of offerings:...
