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One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]

One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons, including skills development and the hunt for new technologies, but is sometimes difficult to do. That is why, each week, the team at Payables Place [...]

It’s been a relatively big news week for the accounts payable industry. News of China opening up its payments market to foreign competition is perhaps some of the biggest news, with the revelation that Amazon launched its business-to-business commerce engine a close second. Also, SAP’s Concur has made its flagship TripIt™ app is available on [...]

Not even two full weeks have passed in 2015, and already big news has arisen around the accounts payable and working capital worlds. From the Federal Reserve declaring they wouldn’t yet raise interest rates in the U.S., to Russia finding itself forced to seek out alternatives to Visa and MasterCard. It’s looking like this year [...]

This is part II of a series focused on new technology providers that have entered the space often referred to as Dynamic Discounting within the last 5 years. The ultimate goal of these types of technologies is to optimize working capital and improve cash flow management between trading partners. Part I was on Taulia (click [...]

Optimizing working capital has been discussed a lot recently in the AP and P2P space and has often been promoted or marketed as a benefit to automating the invoice and payment process. Yes, there is truth to that but the execution of it comes down to the capabilities provided by the solution, and the availability [...]