Strategy

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners’ new webinar, Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation and Data, is scheduled for this Thursday, April 9th. Click here to register.] Ardent Partners research has shown that the benefits of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation and data can extend well beyond process and efficiency improvements gained from eliminating paper and manual, labor-intensive [...]

Ardent Partners takes the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Please click here to read our approach in these uncertain times. From March 31 through May 7, Ardent Partners will host The CPO Rising 2K20 – The Resiliency Imperative, an exciting new online series that focuses on the key strategies that procurement, supply chain, finance, [...]

[Ardent Partners takes the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Please click here to read our approach in these uncertain times.] The success of any spend management, sourcing or financial management program largely depends on the enterprise’s ability to set proper goals, identify core business objectives and, most importantly, build an effective means of [...]

Ardent Partners takes the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic with the utmost seriousness. Please click here to read our approach in these uncertain times. Right now we are all facing something unprecedented and unplanned for, and recent events have left many Accounts Payable (“AP”) departments scrambling to adjust and adapt. Mandatory closing of non-essential businesses, and workers [...]

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Ardent Partners recently published its annual AP Metrics that Matter eBook, which is available for download by clicking here.] The Accounts Payable (“AP”) process is one area that presents a significant opportunity for automation in many of today’s enterprises. All spend, regardless of who makes a purchase or where it is made — [...]

Ardent Partners is excited to announce the publication of its annual eBook, “Ardent Partners’ AP Metrics that Matter in 2020”, which is available for download here. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key data points from this eBook. This eBook presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view into what is happening in the [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present a new webinar, The Accounts Payables KPIs Worth Tracking with Ardent Partners sponsored by Esker. This webinar is scheduled for Thursday, February 20th at 2 PM ET. If you are interested in learning more, click here.] Establishing and measuring relevant and actionable metrics is an important part of any business function [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present a new webinar, The Accounts Payables Metrics that Matter in 2020 sponsored by Transcepta. This webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19th at 2 PM ET. If you are interested in learning more, click here.] Over the past decade, Ardent Partners has conducted more Accounts Payable market research [...]

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 Sanjoy Malik, Chairman & CEO of Urjanet, Inc. Ardent [...]

Over on our sister site, CPORising.com, we’ve launched a new series called “20 for 2020” which examines a broad range of CPO-driven topics. Not surprisingly, and as you would expect, many of these topics intersect with the goals and objectives of AP and Finance as well. Anyone familiar with Ardent Partners knows, collaboration is one [...]