Process

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).] The discussion of where Accounts Payable [...]

There has long been a common misconception that all Accounts Payable does is pay bills. Anyone who works in AP or with knowledge of today’s AP function knows, nothing could be further from the truth. In Ardent Partner’s recent ‘State of ePayables 2018’ (click to download) research report, one of the things we set out [...]

[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).] The discussion of where Accounts Payable [...]

It’s 11pm on Monday night and I am on hold with my airline trying to get through to an agent to change a flight I have for the next day. The airline, at 10:23pm, sent me an email about possible travel disruptions the next day due to weather (thunderstorms) and said I could change my [...]

[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).] In 2018, the role of the AP [...]

[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).] If you’re like me you don’t [...]

[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 [...]