With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]
October 12, 2023
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Process, Research, Technology
Our annual “State of ePayables” research survey is now open. Your responses will help us establish the Best-in-Class metrics that readers can use to benchmark the performance of their AP operations. If you have a few minutes, I encourage you to click here and take it. Thanks in advance! The tsunami of big data has broken [...]
March 29, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Solutions, Technology
One of the more important jobs of the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) and accounts payable (“AP”) 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, every two weeks, [...]
March 4, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
One of the more important jobs of the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) and accounts payable (“AP”) 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, every two weeks, [...]
February 19, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
The accounts payable (“AP”) department has experienced a number of changes over the past 15 years. At first little more than a back-office function that processed invoices and supplier payments, AP has garnered new attention from executives looking to drive value from all corners of the enterprise. Enterprises have also begun to recognize the emerging [...]
January 27, 2016
Andrew Bartolini
Process, Technology
It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came before it, the 2015 ePayables report focuses on the state of the AP function as well as assessing how AP teams leverage ePayables solutions to [...]
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 [...]
June 26, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a brief series examining the problem of using social networking tools for procure-to-pay applications. This installment presents the issue at hand, using social media in a procure-to-pay context, and the next part of the series will discuss how to bridge the proverbial gap and make use of [...]
January 28, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices
The disconnected nature of many enterprise systems is a persistent challenge in the procure-to-pay (P2P) process automation world. Accounts payable runs through one system or maybe a backend ERP server and procurement and sourcing run through yet another discrete system or series of systems – all within the same enterprise. Esker (NYSE Euronext: ALESK) has [...]
October 6, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Solutions, Technology
We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on Payables Place because of its central importance to Chief Financial Officers and AP operations. We also see it is as a “Hot Button” issue for AP groups in 2014 and we see a its importance as part of larger trend of the convergence of finance and procurement. [...]
January 30, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Process