Travel and Expense Management

We’ve seen some great articles already this year from the Payables Place team, and the past two weeks hasn’t been any different. From a two-part series on mobility and complex spend, to a look ahead at business travel in 2015, the last two weeks served up hot, fresh news and research. Now check out the [...]

Frequent visitors to Payables Place will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel industry has not seen this level of growth since long before the economic downturn of last decade. As we move into a new year, what [...]

Today marks the end of the first full week of 2015, and the second week that Payables Place has posted every weekday. We’re planning to keep this schedule going, so make sure to check back every weekday for fresh news and research articles from the Ardent Partners team. That bit of self-promotion aside, we’ve covered [...]

We’ve all heard the term “Big Data” and its effects on how the modern organization conducts its business. The story is as follows: the typical company sits on a veritable goldmine of data within its walls that can be leveraged to improve the efficiency of the overall enterprise. By taking a deeper dive into this [...]

Editor’s note: Payables Place is excited to kick off a new series of article focused on the travel and expense management function that will help enterprises, regardless of size or region, better prepare for the future of this critical business category. From technology insights and strategic recommendations to guidance on how this category will be [...]

Industry standards peg the business travel category as encompassing anywhere between 8% and 12% of the average organization’s total budget. While this number can be higher for larger, enterprise-size organizations and a bit lower for those on the small- and mid-sized (SMB) spectrum, the fact remains that business travel (and related expenses) plays a critical [...]

Today occupies an interesting place in modern culture. Boxing Day, as today is called in many nations of the former British Empire, is a secular holiday when servants and tradespeople would receive what’s called a “Christmas box” from their bosses or employers. No one quite knows the origin of the holiday’s name, but the tradition itself dates [...]

Editor’s note: Payables Place is excited to kick off a new series of articles focused on the travel and expense management function that will help enterprises, regardless of size or region, better prepare for the future of this critical business category. From technology insights and strategic recommendations to guidance on how this category will transform over [...]

On Monday, we published the first article in this brief, two part series exploring the value proposition of travel and expense management. Click here to check it out. To recap, we discussed that: The travel and expense management processes have been on a strategic upswing over the past few years. Specific technology offerings are paving the way for the continued [...]

It was sometime in mid-2009 that I first heard the following phrase: “We’re looking at travel and expense as being more strategic here internally.” It was uttered by a CFO at a mid-market telecommunications company in one of my frequent conversations with the finance/procurement/travel community. Up until that point, the travel / expense management function was largely [...]