How Albertsons and Quad are Becoming Better Partners Through a Portal

Albertsons has been a long-time believer in efficient procure-to-pay operations.  In fact, they’ve had supplier inquiry enabled via apexportal since 2007!   Then they integrated the portal with their internal help desk system.

Over the years, lots of change occurred in the form of mergers, acquisitions, the impact on supply chain and on consumer demand brought about by the pandemic.

Add to that a new ERP financial system and a growing vendor master (170,000 records).  Albertsons turned to the foundation they created with supplier-self-service and built upon it to fine tune an automated supplier onboarding strategy.

Meanwhile, suppliers like Quad, who do marketing and advertising for Albertsons and other retailers, could continue to use the portal to communicate and collaborate.  And now Quad and all of Albertsons suppliers can make changes to their company information, required documents, special supplier statuses (like diversity and ESG) and more, efficiently without having to call or email anyone.  And Albertsons can meet their goals of efficiency, regulatory compliance, risk management with automation.

Listen to Kathy Hosek and Bill Reffke talk about:

• How the automated onboarding workflow, validations and more work.
• How the portal gives Bill information when he needs it.
• Ways apexportal lets Albertsons do more to meet their compliance and efficiency goals without adding staff.

Mark Brousseau
President, Brousseau & Associates 

Over the past 26 years, Mark Brousseau has established himself as a thought leader on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payments and document automation.   A popular speaker at industry conferences and on webinars and podcasts, Brousseau advises prominent end-users and solutions and services providers on how to use automation to improve document- and payments-driven business processes.  Brousseau has chaired numerous educational conferences and has served on several industry committees and boards.  He resides in Center City Philadelphia with his wife and three sons.

Kathy Hosek
Director Expense Payables, Albertsons

Bio points:

Oversees indirect payables including travel, capital payables and services.

Has worked in grocery accounting for more than 25 years.

Was with Safeway prior to the merger with Albertsons.

Danny Thompson, Senior Vice President, Market & Product Strategy, apexanalytix

Danny Thompson is Senior Vice President of Market and Product Strategy at apexanalytix and is responsible for defining, communicating and leading our company’s software product strategy and roadmap. He works closely with our customers to ensure that each solution helps them meet their business objectives.

Danny has a proven track record in the procure-to-pay arena, with a strong background in ERP implementation, process automation and financial shared services. He previously was VP of Product Management at Tungsten Network, a global business-to-business e-invoicing firm. He also is a former global process driver for Invoice-to-Pay at Pfizer.

Bill Reffke
Senior Credit Specialist, Quad 

Bio points:

Senior Credit Specialist with Quad Graphics for 8+ years.

Manages the second largest portfolio including many large retailers.

Has been in the printing industry for 30+ years.

Prior to Quad, was with Brown Printing until Quad’s acquisition in 2014.