{"id":3406,"date":"2015-03-13T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2015\/03\/13\/b-pack-backs-purchase-to-pay-rank\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T08:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:12:17","slug":"b-pack-backs-purchase-to-pay-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/b-pack-backs-purchase-to-pay-rank\/","title":{"rendered":"b-pack Backs Purchase-to-Pay Rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 2000 in France, <strong>b-pack<\/strong> is a global leader in the purchase-to-pay (P2P) realm serving over 100 global customers in industries including financial services, CPG, manufacturing, business services,\u00a0 energy, media, pharmaceuticals, and government.\u00a0 Customers of b-pack include Sony Music, McDonald\u2019s, Dannon and Buccaneer Energy. \u00a0b-pack has been recognized by Gartner<br \/>\nas a magic quadrant Top 5 eProcurement vendor.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>b-pack is built on a SaaS cloud-based on the Amazon Web Services platform (AWS). 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