Process

Earth Day 2019 doesn’t take place until April 22nd, and this blog post might be better suited for then, but the way I see it, the environment is something we should be concerned with all the time and not just one day per year. Some of you are thinking, what does ePayables have to do [...]

Every now and then I find it helpful to take a step back and consider what makes an organization or department able to achieve better results than its peers. Why is one enterprise more successful than another? Colin Powell – American statesman, retired 4-star general, and former U.S. Secretary of State, said “There are no [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  In 2018, the role of the AP function in most businesses is incredibly clear: tightly-manage day-to-day processes (primarily invoices and payments) while providing value to the [...]

The beginning of every New Year comes with a sense of reflection into the prior year’s comings and goings along with an opportunity to begin anew and plan for bigger and better things to come over the next 12 months. The ePayables world is not exempt from these introspective and predictive exercises, nor should they [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can [...]

[Editor’s Note: In Ardent’s “Supply Management Metrics that Matter in 2018” (click to download), we discuss the supply management industry’s best and most widely used metrics that can inform and educate procurement and AP professionals on what is happening in the market and how best to build a high-performing department.] The concept of an intelligent [...]

Last week, I discussed the challenges Accounts Payable (“AP”) and Procurement organizations face attracting talent in today’s hyper-competitive labor market. This week I want to cover the second half of the ‘New Approach to Procurement Talent Management’ session I moderated at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2018 Summit in Boston last month. This portion of our [...]

A couple of weeks ago I had the honor of moderating a panel discussion on talent management at Ardent Partners’ CPO Rising 2018 Summit in Boston. My expert panel included Ryan Murray, Deputy Chief Procurement Officer, New York City, Vincent Pernetti, Deputy Director of Contracts, New York City and Christopher J. Dwyer, VP of Research, [...]