Suppliers

[Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2019 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.] Why do some supplier eInvoicing and payment initiatives succeed while others fail? The answer usually comes down to supplier enablement. Adoption is key for any [...]

[Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2019 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.] Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. [...]

Editor’s Note: In 2019, just about everyone in the technology world is talking about and writing about Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, including the supply management world. It’s not the cool new thing everyone’s talking about but hardly anyone’s doing — it’s real, and it’s happening. When mated with other emerging technologies and innovations, like connected [...]

Organizations today and for the foreseeable future must have visibility into supplier and third-party operations in order to mitigate risks and achieve compliance. But, that is often easier said than done. The visibility challenge is compounded by the growing volume of data flooding the typical accounts payable and procurement organizations from multiple, disparate systems. Spend, [...]

Editor’s Note: In 2019, just about everyone in the technology world is talking about and writing about Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, including the supply management world. It’s not the cool new thing everyone’s talking about but hardly anyone’s doing — it’s real, and it’s happening. When mated with other emerging technologies and innovations, like connected [...]

Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San Mateo, California-based provider of end-to-end spend management applications for the cloud, made many announcements  — most relating to its family of B2B payments applications, Coupa [...]

Why do some supplier eInvoicing and payment initiatives succeed while others fail? The answer usually comes down to supplier enablement. Adoption is key for any program to succeed and those that do the upfront work to get suppliers onboarded are the ones that achieve the most success in terms of invoices being submitted and payments [...]

Business pressures and needs have changed over the past five years such that product lifecycles are shorter and market swings are wider than ever before. The pace of business has increased to the point where many enterprises realize that they can no longer afford to go it alone. At the same time, Ardent Partners research [...]

Every day, solution providers continue to research, develop, and integrate “Industry 4.0” technologies, like 3-D printing, Blockchain distributed digital ledgers, cognitive capabilities, connected devices, and robotics within sourcing, procurement, and payables / accounts payables business tools, giving rise to a new generation of supply management tools, dubbed “Procurement 4.0.” Blockchain ledgers, in particular, now rival [...]

[EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ardent Partners ePayables research team, recently met with Chen Amit, the co-founder and CEO of Tipalti to discuss his company’s recent integration with Intuit Quickbooks Online. Below is a brief recap of our discussion.] Just this week, Tipalti, a global ePayables automation platform provider, has announced that its supplier payments automation solution [...]