Best Practices

This week we continue our conversation about Accounts Payables’ new agenda.  The new agenda focuses on three steps that include 1) ensuring business continuity, 2) building resilience, and 3) supporting the recovery when it eventually comes. Last week we began by introducing ‘Step One – Ensuring Continuity’. This week we are going to explore the [...]

There will be many lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic and over the coming weeks and months we will cover and discuss their impact on accounts payable, the financial supply chain and overall business operations.  But, now is the time to face today’s challenges and ensure that AP’s resources are focused on the most important [...]

Last week we took a look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on overall business operations, this week we delve into its impact on AP operations. The pandemic forced stay-at-home restrictions on a majority of workers in North America, Western Europe, Asia-Pacific, and in other developed nations, causing great unrest at the company, community, [...]

In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle the big issues we were all facing and continue to face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2,300 [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables  automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Dave Skirzenski, CEO of Raistone Capital.  Ardent Partners: Welcome Dave and [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent released its 15th annual “State of ePayables 2020: Ensuring Continuity, Building Resiliency, and Rising to the Challenge” market research report. Click to get your copy.] As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, maintaining operations and the liquidity to fund them has become the top priority for enterprises around the world. And, while the [...]

In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle the big issues we were all facing and continue to face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2,300 [...]

Over the past month, the business world has seen “phased reopenings” introduce some semblance of normality to life, albeit against a backdrop (as of this week, unfortunately) of some regions across the world experiencing sharp upticks in the number of confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases. Although the future is still unsettled, and, although most of [...]

In April and May, Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as way bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle the big issues we were all facing and continue to face as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. More than 2300 [...]

  Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Nick Sprau, Co-CEO at Metafile.  Bob Cohen: Welcome [...]