Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

How Virtual Payment Cards Can Help Optimize Working Capital

By Andrew Bartolini November 10, 2014Best Practices, TechnologyNo Comments

The working capital optimization process is a critical challenge for the modern enterprise. This is no surprise as the working capital management workflow involves a delicate balance between holding onto…

3 Ways Suppliers Benefit from Virtual Payment Cards

By Andrew Bartolini November 5, 2014Best Practices, Process, SolutionsNo Comments

The benefits that virtual payment cards provide to buyers are expressed quite well in vendor marketing materials, as well as in several previous articles here at Payables Place. What’s not…

Payables News Weekly: Concur and Rogue Travelers, China and Payments, and Chip-Based Cards’ Security Promise

By Andrew Bartolini November 4, 2014NewsNo Comments

Candy has been handed out to costumed children, the jack-o-lanterns have been thrown away, and Halloween is over for another year. The next holiday, here in the U.S. at least,…

Travel & Expense and Virtual Payment Cards, Ahoy: What You May Have Missed on Payables Place

By Andrew Bartolini October 31, 2014NewsNo Comments

Happy Halloween! Did you know that the New York Halloween Parade in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village is the only major night-time parade in the United States? It also turns 40 years…

What are Virtual Payment Cards?

By Andrew Bartolini October 29, 2014Best Practices, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

It’s a safe bet that commercial cards are, if not common knowledge, then at least easily recognizable in the business world. The venerable purchasing card (p-card) has existed since the…

Which Commercial Card is Right for You?

By Andrew Bartolini October 27, 2014Process, Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

For more than 70 years, enterprises of all sizes have used commercial payment cards to purchase everything from airline tickets to office supplies. This flexibility has led solution providers to…

3 Benefits of Virtual Payment Cards You Might Not Know

By Andrew Bartolini October 22, 2014TechnologyNo Comments

Commercial cards are an established fact of business life, with all the varieties credit card issuers provide. There are fleet cards, purchasing cards, travel cards, ONE cards, meetings cards, and…

Ariba Pay, Compliance, and Complex Spend: The Past Two Weeks of Payables Analysis

By Andrew Bartolini October 17, 2014News, SolutionsNo Comments

We covered a lot of ground on Payables Place in the past two weeks; from travel and expense management goals, through the CFO’s viewpoint on the travel and expense market,…

Basware Pay Offers New Method to Counteract Late Payments

By Andrew Bartolini October 8, 2014Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

For many years, payment systems existed as an afterthought for other ePayables (accounts payable automation) systems. That all changed in the last few years, with more and more AP-driven RFPs…

Esker Wants to Take Over the Procure-to-Pay World

By Andrew Bartolini October 6, 2014Solutions, TechnologyNo Comments

The disconnected nature of many enterprise systems is a persistent challenge in the procure-to-pay (P2P) process automation world. Accounts payable runs through one system or maybe a backend ERP server…