Best Practices

[Publisher’s note: Today, we borrow the tradition begun 9 years ago at our sister site CPO Rising to bring you “The Dog Days of Summer” article in August, so we thought we’d re-publish this great post from years’ past so that new readers of our site can enjoy it, as well. The concepts are as [...]

While the accounts payable (“AP”) function has long been one of the last bastions of manual processes in an enterprise, we have started to see a small technological evolution that has transitioned the AP industry away from manual tasks that have proved to be both time consuming and costly. The pressure to automate operations – [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] One of the most fascinating things [...]

Ardent Partners defines ePayables as the solutions and services that automate all or part of the three phases of the accounts payable (“AP”) process, including invoice receipt, invoice processing, and vendor payments. Ardent Partners developed its ePayables Framework to be used by AP and finance professionals to understand the different types of technology providers, and [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required).] “Perception” has long been one of [...]

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2018: The Future of AP is Now. Today’s article is part of an on-going series focused on the report’s key findings. If you would like to get the full report, it is available for download here (registration required). Last week I talked about how [...]

The speed of innovation within the world of finance is accelerating and new technologies and strategies are emerging that will make a big impact on the accounts payable (“AP”) industry. The AP function has risen in stature, prominence, and impact within the enterprise over the past few years, but the larger opportunities for value creation [...]

Join us on Wednesday, July 11 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation on our latest market research report, “The State of ePayables 2018 The Future of AP is Now,” sponsored by AvidXchange (click here to register). For most enterprises, the opportunity to transform and modernize the accounts payable (AP) organization is both significant and achievable [...]

Last week I discussed ‘Taking Accounts Payable to the Next Level’ and transforming the accounts payable (“AP”) function from a tactical operation to a strategic one. I spoke about leveraging technology to facilitate this transition and the benefits to be gained. One of the biggest impediments to becoming more strategic is having to deal with [...]

Procure-to-Pay (“P2P”) technology is currently riding a wave of innovation as more and more business executives (within both the procurement and finance functions) seek to not only make financial and purchasing transactions more efficient, but also seek to boost other areas of the organization via the robust nature of advanced P2P platforms. This point indicates [...]