Best Practices

Why do some supplier eInvoicing and payment initiatives succeed while others fail? The answer usually comes down to supplier enablement. Adoption is key for any program to succeed and those that do the upfront work to get suppliers onboarded are the ones that achieve the most success in terms of invoices being submitted and payments [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Todd Albers, Senior Payments Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis about creating a framework to address E-Invoicing in the United States. Todd will be giving a session on this topic on May 14th at the Exchange Summit Conference in Miami and I thought this would [...]

Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. The pace of business has increased to the point where many enterprises realize that they can no longer afford to go it alone. At the same time, Ardent Partners research [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Chauncey St. John, Senior Customs Operations Manager and former Global Process Leader Healthcare, Source-to-Pay, GE Global Operations USA, about designing, pitching, and executing an eInvoicing strategy. Chauncey will be giving a session on this topic on May 14th at the Exchange Summit Conference in Miami and I [...]

Two companies, a similar task, different corporate cultures, and diametrically opposite results. Over the past few weeks, we presented a case study on the specific experiences of two rival companies and their implementations of similar supply management technology suites. Specifically, we looked at the impact that the existing corporate culture had on the implementation and overall [...]

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Mario Fernández, CEO at Gosocket about the ‘Kenyan Project’ in Africa. Mario will be giving a session on this topic on May 14th at the Exchange Summit Conference in Miami and I thought this would be a great opportunity for our user community to learn more about [...]

According to authors P. Montana and B. Charnov (in the 2008 edition of their book, Management) by way of Wikipedia, Corporate culture is defined as the “total sum of the values, customs, traditions, and meanings that make a company unique. Corporate culture is often called ‘the character of an organization,’ since it embodies the vision of the company’s founders. [...]

The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years, and these shifts – in communication technologies, in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, and in financial tools, among others – have impacted few departments more completely than procurement and accounts payable (AP). As a result of today’s evolving business landscape and a focus on [...]

[Editor’s Note: Today’s article is a preview of our upcoming, Ardent Partners’ Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2019 eBook. Be sure to check back next week when we publish the results.] As modern businesses progress deeper into the digital realm and away from manual, paper-based processes, their automated systems are capturing an increasing amount [...]

Many of the technology innovations that will carry Accounts Payable (“AP”) departments and ePayables solutions into the future have already largely arrived. AP and finance leaders that keep an eye on the horizon will most likely already recognize some of the advancements that are pushing AP automation solutions into the future, and create ever-greater efficiencies [...]