Research

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Yooz next Wednesday, July 26th for a webinar that highlights the key findings from Ardent Partners’ 2023 AP Pulse on the Mid-Market eBook.  “The AP Pulse on the Mid-Market in 2023” is a compilation of knowledge and performance metrics needed by mid-market AP and finance organizations to gain key insights into accounts payable [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Esker on May 31 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET for a discussion on The State of ePayables 2023: Paving the Way for a Smarter Future. This event marks the worldwide premiere of major findings from Ardent Partners’ 18th annual State of ePayables in 2023 research report. As the world enters [...]

(Editors Note: This article by John Yuva, Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared January 5th on our sister site – The Future of Work Exchange) When we refer to the Future of Work, we’re often talking about a better overall workforce experience. Certainly, a workplace that considers employee purpose, well-being, and work/life balance. [...]

Editors Note: This article by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer and Founder of Ardent Partners, first appeared December 6th on our sister site, CPORising Chief Procurement Officers face a myriad of supply risks from supplier insolvency to union strikes to geopolitical crises to inflation. However, one area of risk that has spiked in recent years but has [...]

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 Ivo Moszynski, Chair of FeRD (German Forum for Electronic Invoicing). Ardent [...]

The Answer Is Obvious. Should your AP department use paper as its main mode of supplier invoicing and payments, or should it leverage the power of automation to create repeatable, scalable processes that drive efficiencies, savings, and value? Any CEO, CFO, or Controller worth their salt would choose automation. Since that answer is obvious, the [...]

Given recent trends toward improving business processes in a bid to increase efficiencies and drive down costs, one wonders why more enterprises have not fully automated their AP processes. This is especially true in light of the challenges brought on by the pandemic, which made paper-based processes unworkable with the work-from-home mandates that most employers [...]

Unfortunately, in addition to the traditional, primarily tactical- related challenges facing AP year after year that I discussed a couple of weeks ago, Ardent Partners believes there are several new risks on the horizon that could negatively impact AP performance in 2022 and beyond. AP leadership needs to be aware of these threats, monitor them, [...]