Tradeshift

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 [...]

The northeastern United States is on its third week of snow storms big enough to shutter schools for successive days. This week, for example, Massachusetts—where Ardent Partners is located—has enjoyed an additional foot of snow over yesterday and today. But enough about the weather. In this week’s news roundup, we’re visiting the Crimean Peninsula, where [...]

[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 [...]

Enterprises around the world want to maximize working capital for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes freeing up cash from operations in order to hire new employees, pay down debt, expand into new markets, or even to provide better returns to shareholders via dividends and stock repurchases. Working capital management is thus [...]

The world of business-to-business (B2B) commerce changes constantly; the current climate for enterprises at all levels is no different. Ever-increasing globalization and technology innovation, as well as the quickening speed of business, has made it imperative for organizations to take a hard look at the tools used to conduct business with trading partners. Doing business [...]

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 [...]

The SupplierPay pledge that 26 large corporations signed in a July press conference at the White House has as one of its two tenets the need to craft financing solutions that allow small suppliers to get paid faster. Luckily, there are three technologies that—when implemented correctly—can allow large corporate buyers to give their small suppliers [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]

Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers, executives, and those who aspire to these roles. The report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of accounts payable, as well as focusing on [...]