Esker: Growing the P2P Suite in 2018 and Beyond
Editor’s Note: The Payables Team at Ardent Partners recently met with Catherine Dupuy-Holdich, Gina Leranth, and Justin Cunningham from Esker to get an update and briefing on its P2P solutions…
AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency
Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…
Oildex: AP Automation For the Oil and Gas Industry
Editors Note: Members of the Ardent ePayables Team (Bob & Phil) recently took a briefing with Mike Donaldson, the Chief Marketing Officer at Oildex to discuss three of their five…
Accounts Payable In Need of a Process Overhaul
The current issues of the day, such as the evolution of networks and continued impact of mobility and other types of innovation, dominate long-term business planning. After all, no true…
Monday First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals
Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across the P2P process. These portals…
Five Ways to Improve the CPO-CFO Relationship
Heightened volatility and increased business risk have combined with tight and uncertain credit markets to ensure that having cash and maintaining direct access to it will remain a priority of…
Monday First Thing: Why Doesn’t Accounts Payable Get the Recognition it Deserves?
I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the recognition and credit they wholeheartedly…
Transforming Accounts Payable Requires a Holistic Approach
Over the past decade, Ardent Partners research has consistently shown that transforming an Accounts Payable (AP) department is a worthwhile undertaking that can deliver significant bottom-line value while also elevating…
Monday First Thing: What’s Really Changed in AP Over the Last 10 Years? A Ton, That’s What!
It is sometimes easy to forget that when you work in an industry that delivers regular incremental innovation, that the aggregate steps taken forward can be quite significant. This is…
Best of 2017: Three Game-Changing Innovations to Move Your AP Department Forward
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2017 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead. …