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The benefits of B2B payment automation are clear, but accounts payable (“AP”) teams often struggle to achieve any significant level of process transformation because of a combination of limited resources and a relatively low position in the enterprise. This is where treasury, a direct beneficiary of B2B payment automation, can become tremendously helpful in advocating [...]

There is significant enterprise value hidden in the supplier, or vendor, payments that enterprises make every month. Smart organizations realize this, and have begun examining their payments process to uncover every scrap of enterprise value possible. As a result, the supplier payments approval workflow has also started to be considered as part of a holistic [...]

The speed of business continues to accelerate while markets expand, shift, merge, and emerge at a pace never seen before. The result is a fast-moving and highly-competitive global marketplace that finds its participants increasingly interconnected and under greater pressure to exploit any and all opportunities that arise. In this business climate, agility and innovation are [...]

It’s no secret that today’s non-employee workforce—comprised of temporary staff, freelancers, independent talent, and professional services—is rapidly growing and evolving. As businesses continue to manage the “war for talent,” they are actively finding that flexible, contingent workers hold the necessary skillsets and expertise for critical enterprise projects and initiatives. With the non-employee workforce moving to [...]

The role of Treasury has shifted dramatically in the past decade, especially since the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Where Treasury once could content itself with protecting corporate assets, the new market paradigm requires the Treasurer and his or her team to focus instead on driving value from the firm’s working capital stores. To this end, [...]

In 2015, more AP groups are accelerating their plans to transform their operations and scale to new heights by pursuing the critical attributes that can propel an operation to the next level of performance… or “higher ground.” As more and more corporate leaders strive for operational excellence in the face of dynamic business challenges, they [...]

The world of accounts payable is changing, evolving … and the average business can benefit by boosting the strategic impact of their AP functions and linking the unit to more critical enterprise endeavors. Ardent Partners’ brand new ePayables 2015: Higher Ground research study found that enterprises across the globe are not only pushing AP into [...]

Accounts payable (AP) has for a number of years been one of the last bastions of manual processes in the enterprise. Many AP teams still process paper-based invoices through a manual process, a workflow which is both expense and rife with process inefficiencies. Thankfully, more and more AP teams are realizing the benefits of automation–lower [...]

The average company is often forced to look within to drive additional value to their overall operations. Functions that were not considered strategic in years past, such as account payable (AP), fall clearly within this notion. Today’s AP functions are well-positioned to be effective “hubs” of cash management, spend visibility and overall corporate intelligence. Within [...]

Ardent Partners research over the past five years has shown that the use of B2B electronic payments (ePayments) is on the rise, having captured the attention of finance and AP leaders around the globe. Paper checks, while still prevalent, are in retreat from ePayment methods such as ACH, payment networks, commercial cards, and wire transfers [...]