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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 [...]

  Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Nick Sprau, Co-CEO at Metafile.  Bob Cohen: Welcome [...]

[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 [...]

The global uncertainty that pervades today’s market indicates a 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 and the liquidity needed to fund ongoing operations. Let’s examine a few ways that Chief Procurement Officers can support this top priority. [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Brian Anderson, Senior Manager, Accounts Payable at Verizon Media. [...]

(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 [...]

In Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2020, our research indicated 55% of B2B payments were made electronically last year. The positive lining here is the percentage of B2B payments made electronically has been creeping up slowly over the last decade. Unfortunately, besides inertia, there is little sound business reason for North American businesses [...]

The Resiliency Imperative sessions finish the week in strong fashion with a discussion targeted to CFOs, CPOs, Treasurers, and any professional reporting into these executive job roles.  Tomorrow at 11 AM ET, we will be discussing The Role of Supply Chain Finance in Today’s COVID-19 World  (click to register) The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted enterprises all over [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Jae Jin Kim, Vice President of the Korean Institute [...]