No matter the size of the enterprise, the accounts payable team tends to be deluged with paper. Mostly in the form of invoices and/or paper checks sent to suppliers. In fact, 70% of all invoices are still paper-based, according to Ardent Partners research, which can cause significant headaches for the accounts payable team from an [...]
December 5, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology
It’s a safe bet that commercial cards are, if not common knowledge, then at least easily recognizable in the business world. The venerable purchasing card (p-card) has existed since the 1980s, with the corporate travel card in use since 1936, and the ONE card arriving a little over 20 years ago. One of the newest [...]
October 29, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Solutions, Technology
For more than 70 years, enterprises of all sizes have used commercial payment cards to purchase everything from airline tickets to office supplies. This flexibility has led solution providers to launch numerous card products in the intervening decades. Today, there are cards to manage corporate travel, cards for purchasing, fleet cards for transportation, ghost cards [...]
October 27, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Process, Solutions, Technology