Not Your Father’s Treasury Department The finance department in many enterprises has an unofficial hierarchy among functions. Near the top is the corporate treasury team, which is tasked with ensuring the enterprise has enough cash on-hand to cover ongoing operations and required business investments. But just like CFOs and Chief Procurement Officers, who have seen pretty [...]
September 28, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Research, Technology
The benefits of B2B payment automation are clear, but accounts payable (“AP”) teams often struggle to achieve any significant level of process transformation because of a combination of limited resources and a relatively low position in the enterprise. This is where treasury, a direct beneficiary of B2B payment automation, can become tremendously helpful in advocating [...]
April 20, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Event
[Editor’s note: We will soon be taking down the “State of B2B Payments 2015” market report, so do not miss your opportunity to get our latest research on B2B payments. Get the report before it is too late!] Each year, Ardent Partners conducts a series of market research studies focused on the accounts payable (“AP”) [...]
April 15, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology
There is significant enterprise value hidden in the supplier, or vendor, payments that enterprises make every month. Smart organizations realize this, and have begun examining their payments process to uncover every scrap of enterprise value possible. As a result, the supplier payments approval workflow has also started to be considered as part of a holistic [...]
February 17, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Event
Each year, Ardent Partners conducts a series of market research studies focused on the accounts payable (“AP”) and P2P markets. Our most recent of these looked at the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments and captured the key findings in a report called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value.” The report captures the [...]
January 22, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Solutions
Each year, Ardent Partners conducts a series of market research studies focused on the accounts payable (“AP”) and P2P markets. Our most recent of these looked at the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments and captured the key findings in a report called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value.” The report captures the [...]
January 13, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Technology
Editor’s Note: As 2015 draws to a close, it is the time of year when we revisit some of our best articles from the past year. Over the next two weeks, the Payables Place team will share an eight-part series of the “Best of 2015.” Today’s article is one from our AP predictions series, which originally ran on [...]
January 1, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Solutions, Technology
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
December 23, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Solutions, Technology
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
December 21, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Process, Research, Solutions
Every year, Ardent Partners publishes several benchmark studies into the accounts payable (“AP”) marketplace. One of those is the annual research effort into the state of business-to-business (“B2B”) payments, called “The State of B2B Payments 2015: Emerging Business Value” this year, which Ardent is proud to announce is now available. The report captures the perspectives, [...]
December 16, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Research, Technology