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
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 [...]
December 18, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
Editor’s Note: With this edition, the Payables News Roundup moves to a biweekly posting schedule from a weekly one. We will still write about the most pertinent payables news, but on a slightly less frequent schedule. One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in [...]
December 4, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News, Solutions, Technology
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 [...]
July 24, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
Today is an auspicious day for Ardent Partners. Chief Research Officer Andrew Bartolini and Research Director Christopher Dwyer are going to be giving a webinar at 2 pm Eastern time on Accounts Payable trends in 2015 in partnership with Concur (click here to register). News around the payables world has been fairly big as well; [...]
April 16, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
[Editor’s Note: Today, the second day of 2015, we wrap up our best of 2014 series with our look at the U.S. government’s SupplierPay pledge, which originally appeared on August 25.] On July 11, President Obama announced the SupplierPay pledge. Based on the federal government’s QuickPay initiative, which is designed to pay small federal suppliers more quickly, the [...]
January 2, 2015
Andrew Bartolini
News
[Editor’s Note: It’s almost 2015 and, to cap off 2014 in style, Payables Place will run five of the best posts from the 2014 archives. Today we kick things off with the below article, which originally appeared on August 8, and coincided with the publication of our benchmark ePayables report.] Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables [...]
December 29, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Research, Technology
In years past, many enterprises held onto cash for as long as possible so said cash would gain interest while sitting in the bank. When interest rates approached something like 10% or even 5%, this was a good idea. Not so anymore. Interest rates have remained near zero for the past five years, which means [...]
September 17, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology
Six weeks ago, President Obama announced the voluntary SupplierPay initiative. Already this week, we’ve gone over why the pledge matters in the first place and the technology tools that could make it happen, but I find myself wondering if this pledge means small businesses will actually get paid sooner or not. What is this SupplierPay [...]
August 29, 2014
Andrew Bartolini
Best Practices, Technology