PayStream Advisors: AGENDA

Preliminary Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 AM	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 AM	Speed Topic Tables The event will kick-off with dialogue and networking as attendees will visit “topic tables” to discuss the most pressing topics around buyer and supplier collaboration. Attendees will rotate tables after 15 minutes and will visit four topic tables.
9:30 - 10:00 AM	Morning Break
10:00 - 11:00 AM	Opening Panel: Leveraging ePayments to Achieve Collaboration Card programs universally tout the ‘benefits to merchants’ as key to adoption. In reality, many merchants view card-based solutions with some skepticism. In this panel discussion of high volume B2B merchants, gain an inside perspective of how they interpret card payment offerings. Panelists will share their needs and desires and discuss what they like and dislike about talking card payments, along with their motivation to increase electronic transactions and the scenarios in which they support or discourage the use electronic payments.
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Buyer Case Study Creating an Internal Vision to Drive Electronic Invoice Adoption with Suppliers. E-Invoicing boasts so many benefits for Accounts Payable that it’s sometimes difficult to consider what it means for trading partners, even though it’s vital to adoption rates. Lowe’s, despite their large corporate size and status, has successfully taken a win-win approach to their supplier onboarding program. In this case study, Eric Jones, Director of Corporate Payables will share: How Lowe’s has achieved 98% automation Keys to successfully onboarding vendors to EDI through an electronic portal How to achieve collaboration with both large and smaller indirect, non-merchandise suppliers The POFE model – PO’s for Everyone Presented by: Eric Jones, Director of Corporate Payables, Lowe’s	Supplier Case Study E-Benefits of Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP) Just as traditional accounts payable (AP) is bogged down by paper and labor-intensive processes, the same holds true for accounts receivable (AR) departments. Suppliers are increasingly turning to EIPP, also known as Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) to electronically process invoices and payments to their buying partners. In this case study, learn how a leading supplier implemented an EIPP solution to drive down costs, paper, and process time while simultaneously strengthening client relationships.
12:15 - 1:15 PM	Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 PM	Buyer Case Study Using Portals to Achieve Supplier Self Service The push toward supplier self-service solutions continues to grow as supplier portals become more robust with their capabilities. Full featured portals act as a single point of access and allow suppliers to perform their own queries, obtain payment details and deliver remittance information in electronic format for input to accounts receivables systems. Learn how this company benefitted from supplier self-service by reducing time and manual labor, offered higher visibility and new opportunities for early payments.	Supplier Case Study Setting Industry Standards: Pros and Cons from the Oil & Gas Community What happens when buyers and sellers within the same industry come together and realize the need for better business to business collaboration? In the oil and gas industry, it is known as the standards body Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX). The President of PIDX and the Enterprise Business Applications Architect of Baker Hughes will share the benefits and challenges of collaborating to achieve e-business industry standards. Topics covered will include: The history of PIDX The benefits of real-time collaboration through industry standards in the Oil & Gas industry The challenges surrounding the sharing of catalogues and codes How to collaborate with suppliers outside of the industry who are unable to adopt
2:30 - 3:30 PM	Keynote
3:30 - 4:00 PM	Afternoon Break
4:00 - 5:00 PM	Closing Panel Beyond e-Invoicing & Payment: Proven Strategies for Effective Buyer and Seller Collaboration Working more collaboratively with your trading partners sounds great in theory, but often more difficult in practice. Buyers and sellers may establish a program to automate cross-enterprise collaboration, yet old ways of doing business sometimes win out. In this provocative panel joining both buyers and suppliers, learn best practices of how to onboard trading partners for effective collaboration.
6:30 PM	Executive Dine Around Charlotte