July 28th, 2010 by Alex Coté
A Q&A with Dave Schier, Credit Manager, Jacobus Energy The last 18 months have certainly been a challenge for credit pros as even your oldest customers have become problem accounts. Can you share some of your tips on how to collect from a long-term customer that has started paying slower than normal or not at [...]
July 28th, 2010 by Alex Coté
The June 2010 Cortera Supply Chain Index (SCI) remains in record low territory dropping to 6.79 days beyond terms (DBT), its second lowest level since the index was started in January 2007 and the third consecutive month below 7 days—all good news. The lower the SCI the better as business confidence rises and businesses pay [...]
July 26th, 2010 by Alex Coté
As we do each month, today, we published our latest report of small business payment activities (see chart below). After watching as the gap grew between the payment habits of large and small businesses throughout the worst periods of the recession, both indices have now converged into a tighter pattern. The SBI peaked out in [...]
July 6th, 2010 by Alex Coté
After a long and arduous struggle to weigh the considerable merits of our semi-finalists’ submissions, our talented panel of judges has finally emerged with our Comeback 2010 contest winners! You can check them all out here, at our official contest site: www.thecomeback2010.com We’d just like to take a moment to thank all of the entrants [...]
