The Best P2P is Collaborative
It’s said that “a rising tide lifts all boats.” This is particularly true when it comes to standardizing and streamlining business processes; greater coordination between stakeholders results in situations where…
Why You Should Switch to ePayments Right Now
Welcome to the second entry in a four-part series that previews Ardent Partners’ upcoming ePayments Rising research study. The pending research report, which is due to publish this summer, highlights…
An SMB Buyer’s Guide to AP Automation
Once upon a time, small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) expended significant effort to automate business processes such as accounts payable (AP). With the advent of cloud solutions, this is no…
ePayments and the “Next Level” of Financial Operations
Welcome to the first entry in a four-part series that previews Ardent Partners’ upcoming ePayments Rising research study. The pending research report, which is due to publish this summer, highlights…
Does SupplierPay Actually Mean Small Businesses Will Get Paid Sooner?
Six weeks ago, President Obama announced the voluntary SupplierPay initiative. Already this week, we’ve gone over why the pledge matters in the first place and the technology tools that could…
Three Technologies that Speed Access to Working Capital
The SupplierPay pledge that 26 large corporations signed in a July press conference at the White House has as one of its two tenets the need to craft financing solutions…
ePayables 2014: Five Drivers of Top AP Performance
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers,…
ePayables 2014: What Makes an AP Department Best-in-Class?
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers,…
Supply-Chain Finance: Saving Money and Providing Long-Term Market Opportunity
We’re living in a global economy. Raw materials mined in China are shipped to factories in Kenya and then the finished goods are sold in U.S. and Western European stores,…
AP Skill Sets Must Evolve with Automation
Our 2013 annual ePayables study [Sidebar: Make sure to visit Payables Place next week when we unveil this year's study] introduced accounts payable's new dawn wherein AP departments have realized the need…