Tradeshift

(Publisher’s note: Our challenge to each reader is to pick and view one great CFO / CPO / Leadership session today. If you do, we bet you can’t just stop at one!)  Our inaugural CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series brought more than 2000 procurement, finance, and HR professionals together around the topics that matter to business leaders [...]

Today we continue our look at solving AP’s reliance on paper by looking at the second phase of the process: Invoice processing. The AP department is one of the last groups within many enterprises to operate using what are largely or fully-manual processes. These manually-intensive processes are more costly and take significantly more time to [...]

The Resiliency Imperative sessions finish the week in strong fashion with a discussion targeted to CFOs, CPOs, Treasurers, and any professional reporting into these executive job roles.  Tomorrow at 11 AM ET, we will be discussing The Role of Supply Chain Finance in Today’s COVID-19 World  (click to register) The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted enterprises all over [...]

In honor of earth day which took place on April 22, this week we are going to discuss the delivery and receipt of invoices.  It’s impossible to know exactly how many invoices are sent globally on an annual basis, but Ardent Partners’ estimates the number to be well over one hundred billion, yes, billion, per [...]

[Editor’s Note: Join Ardent Partners on our upcoming webinar, Accounts Payable 2020: Big Trends and Predictions (click to register), next Thursday, December 12th at 2 PM ET.] The accounts payable (AP) industry is consistently evolving and shifting, forcing AP and finance professionals across the globe to prepare for change and innovation in technology, business regulations, [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot [...]

[Editor’s Note: Join us tomorrow, July 24 at 12pm ET, for a complimentary webinar presentation entitled “Is Your Procurement Team Best-in-Class? Four Key Enablers for Success” (click to register), sponsored by Canon and Tradeshift.] In 2019, the tried and true procurement strategies still work. But, it is clear today that the procurement profession needs new, [...]

Basware today announced that it has terminated discussions with Tradeshift in relation to a possible offer to acquire all shares in Basware. These two leaders in the Procure-to-Pay (“P2P”) space had been in discussions for months about a possible union between the two organizations. When asked about today’s news Basware’s CEO, Vesa Tykkyläinen, told Ardent [...]

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “Best of” 2018 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.  Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across [...]

Tradeshift, the San Francisco based provider of supply chain payments and marketplaces, yesterday announced the acquisition of Babelway, a provider of cloud integration technology. Babelway, which is headquartered in Belgium, with offices in the US, Australia, and Egypt, offers a SaaS-based integration platform that automates B2B data and documents. The solution allows organizations to automate [...]