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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 [...]

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, [...]

[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 2020, the accounts payable (“AP”) profession continues to gain momentum and impact business operations and results in an increasingly strategic way. The global uncertainty that pervades today’s market indicates the very real threat of a deep economic downturn. In response, the CFO’s new “hierarchy of needs” has placed a laser focus on business continuity [...]

[Editor’s Note: Download the State of ePayables 2020 market research report by clicking here] I am excited to announce the publication of Ardent Partners’ State of ePayables 2020 market research report. The theme of this 15th annual edition of the report is “Ensuring Continuity, Building Resiliency, and Rising to the Challenge”. This report presents a [...]

I will be teaming up with Dan Reeve, Esker’s North American Sales Director for a live virtual event, “Preparing for the Future of AP & Procurement: Solutions & Strategies for Success“. During this event, scheduled for Wednesday, June 17th at 12 PM ET, we will discuss how to better manage cash, build stronger relationships with [...]

(Publisher’s note: Our challenge to each reader is to pick and view one great CFO / CPO / Leadership session today. If you do, we bet you can’t just stop at one!)  Our inaugural CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series brought more than 2000 procurement, finance, and HR professionals together around the topics that matter to business leaders [...]

Continuity, Resilience, and Rising to the Challenge Editor’s Note: Join us next Tuesday, May 19 at 11am ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our upcoming flagship market research report “The State of ePayables 2020” sponsored by APEX Analytix (click here to register). The COVID-19 pandemic has forced enterprises across the globe to not [...]

Editor’s Note: Join Bob Cohen on a new webinar, Wednesday April 29th at 2 PM ET, entitled The Profound Impact of AP Automation on Cash, Productivity, and Risk, in the “New Normal” World (click to register) AP automation has never been more relevant and necessary than it is right now. Recent events have shown us [...]

Ardent Partner’s 2020 State of ePayables Survey is Now Open All Respondents Will Receive the Study When it Publishes in May (Click Here) Now in its 15th year, Ardent Partners annual ‘State of ePayables’ market research survey seeks to provide an industry-wide view into what is happening in the world of accounts payable today by [...]