The CFO’s View of Meetings and Events Management
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the typical organization is now tasked with more than ever before, often asked to be the “savior” of enterprises that struggle to maintain a…
Three Travel and Expense Management Metrics That Matter
It’s been previously stated here at Payables Place that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more enterprises…
The Compliance Management Checklist, Part I
Welcome to the first article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of…
The Significance of Complex Spend Management
Around these parts, the phrase “complex spend management” is tossed around frequently when discussing how the modern executive should develop their global programs and strategies. Today’s Payables Place article is an overview…
Driving Value through a Connected P2P Process – Part II: Hire a P2P Lead
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
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…
The Dynamic Trio – Tradeshift
This is the last is a series of articles focused on new technology providers and their capabilities around dynamic discounting. The first article on Taulia can be found here and…
AP Technology Part 2: eInvoicing & Networks
Based on research from Ardent’s latest report – ePayables 2013: AP’s New Dawn eInvoicing solutions remove paper from the AP process by creating invoices electronically and maintaining that format through…
The B2B Network Landscape: Payments (Part 3)
This is the third in our business network series, Part 1 focused on European business networks while Part 2 focused on networks that have a specific vertical focus. Today’s article…
AP + Treasury = Working Capital Optimization
As we think about the entire ePayables Framework (i.e., Receive, Process and Pay), it is during the “Pay” phase of the process that AP can work closely with treasury and…