Best Practices

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Corcentric on August 29th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on The State of ePayables 2023: Paving the Way for a Smarter Future. The continued economic and market uncertainty means enterprises must leverage their big data even more to navigate the business horizon. Operationally, new technologies play a critical role in [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Yooz next Wednesday, July 26th for a webinar that highlights the key findings from Ardent Partners’ 2023 AP Pulse on the Mid-Market eBook.  “The AP Pulse on the Mid-Market in 2023” is a compilation of knowledge and performance metrics needed by mid-market AP and finance organizations to gain key insights into accounts payable [...]

Ardent Partners research showed a spike in fraud activity during the pandemic, that unfortunately continues today.  Cyber-criminals became more brazen (and more technologically advanced) since the pandemic began, resulting in billions of dollars of fraudulent payments and activity over the past several years. Fraudsters aren’t going away and the attacks will continue, however, and AP [...]

Today on Payables Place, we’re sharing a listicle from CPO Rising that focuses on the CFO and gaining value from a top-performing AP operation. Every Friday, CPO Rising features its  CPO Rising Listicle. Each list will include a variety of procurement tips, trends, insights, research, lists, strategies, and/or recommendations designed to help procurement teams improve operations. [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Todd M. Albers, Senior Payments Consultant, Federal Reserve Bank [...]

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of Accounts Payable (“AP”) automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing how AP work gets done. Continuing our FinTech Influencer Series, today we are speaking with Mike Ehrenberg, Technical Fellow, Microsoft. Ardent Partners: Welcome Mike [...]

The Accounts Payable (AP) profession has been around for a long time and is a vital component of any organization. AP professionals are responsible for ensuring that all invoices and bills are paid on time, and that the company’s financial records are accurate and up-to-date. However, many people underestimate the value of the AP profession [...]

Editors Note: This article by Andrew Bartolini, Chief Research Officer and Founder of Ardent Partners, first appeared December 6th on our sister site, CPORising Chief Procurement Officers face a myriad of supply risks from supplier insolvency to union strikes to geopolitical crises to inflation. However, one area of risk that has spiked in recent years but has [...]

Editors Note: This article by John Yuva,  Director of Research Operations at Ardent Partners, first appeared on November 11th on CPORISING.COM As Chief Procurement Officers (“CPOs”) and procurement practitioners move into the year ahead, they have the need and the capability for advanced technology solutions to automate and link the source-to-settle process – upstream, strategic sourcing and [...]