Andrew Bartolini, Author at Payables Place

Three Must Know Stats about Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini February 24, 2014TechnologyNo Comments

For any AP/Finance/Procurement/Shared Service professionals that enjoy our articles, please take a few minutes to share your insights by participating in our 2014 AP survey. Participants will receive the full…

eInvoicing Stats Every AP & Finance Leader Must See

By Andrew Bartolini February 20, 2014ResearchNo Comments

Ardent Partners’ research over the past few years has shown that while the average accounts payable department still lacks automation, executive focus, and general alignment with the enterprise, leading enterprises…

P2P Metrics that Matter

By Andrew Bartolini February 10, 2014Best Practices, ResearchNo Comments

The procure-to-pay (P2P) process is growing in importance within many enterprises as we've noted in many articles including here and here. As with any business process, optimization is key to…

eInvoicing – Creating Value for Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2014SolutionsNo Comments

In the earlier post (The Rise of the B2B Network and B2B Payments) we talked about the increasing need for eInvoicing providers to create value for suppliers as well as…

Driving Value through a Connected P2P Process – Part II: Hire a P2P Lead

By Andrew Bartolini January 30, 2014ProcessNo Comments

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on Payables Place because of its central importance to Chief Financial Officers and AP operations. We also see it is as a “Hot…

Driving Value Through a Connected P2P Process – Part I

By Andrew Bartolini January 27, 2014ProcessNo Comments

We discuss the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process frequently on Payables Place because of its central importance to CFOsand AP operations. We also see it is as a “Hot Button” issue for…

Data Capture & Workflow – Two Important Pieces of Automating AP

By Andrew Bartolini January 22, 2014SolutionsNo Comments

Even with eInvoicing solutions becoming more commonplace within the enterprise today, there is still a significant amount of paper and PDF invoices being submitted by suppliers. In fact, the average…

Trending in 2014: Supply Chain Finance

By Andrew Bartolini January 16, 2014OtherNo Comments

In a recent article, I noted Supply Chain Finance (SCF) as being one of the top trends for 2014 (read more here). This article offers a more detailed discussion of…

Hot Button Issues for AP Leaders in 2014

By Andrew Bartolini January 9, 2014Best PracticesNo Comments

This is really a continuation of the last article which focused on trends & predictions for 2014 around technology in the AP/P2P space. Today, I wanted to continue the discussion…

Five Accounts Payable Trends & Predictions for 2014

By Andrew Bartolini January 6, 2014TechnologyNo Comments

2014 is going to be an exciting time for the providers of ePayables solutions and for the AP organizations that use them. For far too long, AP departments have been…