Join Ardent Partners on Thursday, February 11th at 2 PM ET for our Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter webinar, sponsored by DataServ. The Coronavirus pandemic has taken no prisoners and impacted businesses of all sizes, in all regions. The impact has been felt within the enterprise and across the financial supply chain. These disruptive days have [...]

Shannon Adler, inspirational author, once said “If you don’t believe the impossible can happen, then you are right.” The AP team faces several key obstacles on the road to achieving greater relevance and impact within the enterprise. These include exceptions, the high cost of invoice processing, the length of time it takes for an invoice [...]

In preparation for the release of Ardent’s upcoming “Accounts Payable Metrics that Matter in 2021” eBook, please join us for a new webinar, where Bob Cohen will be discussing all of the key data. This webinar, hosted by Transcepta is scheduled for Wednesday, February 10th @ 1 PM ET (click to register). Access to accurate [...]

Warren Buffet, the legendary investor once said “Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” What does this have to do with Accounts Payable? Everything. Now is the perfect time to look forward and plan what you want AP to look like tomorrow and into the future. Developing [...]

Accounts payable excellence is founded on the critical, day-to-day components of its operations, processes, and overall program management. As AP departments seek to advance their position and improve performance, it needs to take certain steps in order to enable this transformation. The following strategies will support greater success as the enterprise ensures continuity, builds resilience, [...]

20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Esker Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series focused on the key themes and ideas that Chief Procurement Officers and Chief Financial Officers should have [...]

Across every enterprise function, a real impact has been felt by the pandemic fallout. Procurement faces supply chain disruptions, finance must ensure there is funding to support operations, product management must rethink the pace and timing of development projects, IT needs the technology and infrastructure to support work from home directives, and HR faces unforeseen [...]

Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer-prize winning author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian once said that “people always underestimate the impact of technology.” One group not taking anything for granted are the ‘Best-in-Class’ performers in the world of accounts payable.  Ardent Partners defines ‘Best-in-Class’  performance in our research reports as the 20% of enterprises with the [...]

[Editor’s Note: Join us this Tuesday, December 8 at 2pm ET for a complimentary webinar presentation called 5 Strategies for Ensuring AP Success in 2021, sponsored by Metaviewer. Click here to register.] Please join us tomorrow December 8th at 2pm ET when Ardent’s own Bob Cohen, will present the findings and lessons learned from their 15th annual [...]

Businesses and consumers today are fully engulfed by technology and the data it creates and captures. The same holds true for AP departments across the globe. Accounts payable’s “Big Data” has the potential to become the next major force and catalyst for the profession. In fact, over the next few years, Ardent Partners predicts that [...]