Supply Chain Finance

Nipendo, the provider of a cloud-based P2P-focused platform and Integrate Financial, a new, non-bank finance and technology company announced a partnership to provide supply chain finance solutions to trading partners that leverage Nipendo’s platform. Ardent Partners was briefed on the announcement by Nipendo’s VP of Marketing, Eran Livneh and Integrate Financial’s CEO, Zalman Vitenson, and [...]

In a recent article, I noted Supply Chain Finance (SCF) as being one of the top trends for 2014 (read more here). This article offers a more detailed discussion of SCF. SCF has been around for a while in one form or another but it is only in the last few years that this market [...]

2014 is going to be an exciting time for the providers of ePayables solutions and for the AP organizations that use them. For far too long, AP departments have been stuck with manual and inefficient processes. And while many will continue to struggle this year, in 2014, we expect to see more organizations begin initiatives [...]

This is the last is a series of articles focused on new technology providers and their capabilities around dynamic discounting. The first article on Taulia can be found here and for the second on C2FO click here. Today’s focus will be Tradeshift and although I’ve covered Tradeshift before, this discussion will provide some insights in [...]

This is something that was made very clear in Ardent Partners’ recent study (ePayables 2012: The State of the AP Market). As a function, AP can add a whole lot more value than data entry and responding to supplier inquires. There is an opportunity for AP to work closely with treasury and finance to develop [...]