Best of 2014: What are Virtual Payment Cards?
[Editor's Note: It's almost 2015 and, to cap off 2014 in style, Payables Place will run five of the best posts from the 2014 archives. We continue our "Best of" series today…
The Future of Travel and Expense Management: The Visibility Quotient
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…
What Does “Big Data” Mean for the CFO?
The realm of “visibility” is a complicated one for many enterprises as they attempt to drive a full picture of various aspects of their respective organizations. The pressure of business…
An Early Payment Discount Example to Sink Your Teeth Into
Enterprises around the world want to maximize working capital for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes freeing up cash from operations in order to hire new employees,…
Where Can Travel and Expense Go? (Part II)
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:…
Where Can Travel and Expense Management Go? (Part I)
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…
An Intro to Marketing and Print Spend Management
There are many reasons why “complex spend management” (sometimes called complex category management or services procurement) has been the focus of my professional career and why Payables Place (and sister-site…
Five Important Advantages of Purchasing Cards
Purchasing cards (“p-cards”) have been around long enough to become a ubiquitous facet of a majority of enterprises. Generally strong when it comes to high-volume, low-dollar-value transactions and also utilized…
What is a Purchasing Card?
No matter the size of the enterprise, the accounts payable team tends to be deluged with paper. Mostly in the form of invoices and/or paper checks sent to suppliers. In…
6 Steps to Effective Supplier Onboarding with Virtual Payment Cards
Technology implementations are never easy. There could be unforeseen integration issues with back-end systems or perhaps more customization is required than originally thought. In the P2P world, one of the…