b2b payments

The financial services market continues to innovate with the announcement of a joint venture between two prominent players: HSBC, the London-based financial services organization serving more than 40 million customers, and Tradeshift, a leading B2B business commerce platform with customers operating in more than 190 countries. An agreement lays out plans to launch a new, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“Perception” has long been one of the biggest issues holding AP groups down within the organizational hierarchy of an enterprise. Perception acts as a lens through which reality is viewed, understood, and acted upon. As such, there is a tendency to assume that how reality is perceived is what it truly is. For many years, [...]

The AP Metrics that Matter in 2022 eBook Ardent Partners is excited to announce the publication of its annual eBook, “Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2022”, which is available for download by business practitioners who have registered for our newsletter. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key data points [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its Accounts Payable-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion points from the report. The third year of the new decade begins much as last year did: with great uncertainty and a global pandemic that will [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Corpay on an exciting new webcast that presents the key findings to Ardent’s just released State of B2B Payments in 2021 report! During this webcast, Ardent Partners’ Vice President of Research, Bob Cohen, will be joined by Maggie Schroeder, Senior Solutions Consultant at Corpay, CPA and former Big 4 auditor. Together they will present a [...]

A successful P2P project can start in many different areas and travel many different paths; but, before an enterprise begins its P2P journey, it should have a sense of where it is going and what it is trying to achieve. Crafting the right plan or blueprint at the outset of a P2P project will help [...]

You want your AP department to be best-in-class but do you know how to get there? Join Bob Cohen, Vice President of Research at Ardent Partners and Corpay‘s Vice President and Controller, Jeff Sarafa, MBA, on September 14 at 11 AM PT/2PM ET, as they talk through how to build a strategic plan for your AP team. From annual plans and KPIs to [...]

As many businesses faced tough times due to supply chain issues, worker and workplace restrictions, broad-based operational disruptions, and major revenue shortfalls, executives had to contend with health and safety as well as legal considerations. They had to assess and mitigate the ramifications of a potential outbreak among employees that was started in the workplace. [...]