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The Macro-Level Issues Impacting the CPO Right Now: B2B Payments Fraud

By Andrew Bartolini December 12, 2022Best Practices, Other, Process, Research

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…

Ardent Partners FinTech Influencer Series: Ivo Moszynski Chair of FeRD (German Forum for Electronic Invoicing)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 14, 2022Best Practices, Event, Research, Technology

Ardent’s FinTech Influencer Series highlights innovative voices in the world of ePayables automation. This series is the go-to spot for progressive thoughts on how technology, transformational thinking, and revolutionary ideas are changing…

Paper or Electronic Invoices and B2B Payments?

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team September 6, 2022Best Practices, Research

The Answer Is Obvious. Should your AP department use paper as its main mode of supplier invoicing and payments, or should it leverage the power of automation to create repeatable,…

ePayables Technology Adoption in 2022

By Andrew Bartolini August 15, 2022Best Practices, Research, Technology

Given recent trends toward improving business processes in a bid to increase efficiencies and drive down costs, one wonders why more enterprises have not fully automated their AP processes. This…

New Risks to AP Performance in 2022

By Christopher Dwyer August 8, 2022Research, Technology

Unfortunately, in addition to the traditional, primarily tactical- related challenges facing AP year after year that I discussed a couple of weeks ago, Ardent Partners believes there are several new…

Performance Is Reality

By Andrew Bartolini July 25, 2022Best Practices, Research, Technology

“Perception” has long been one of the biggest issues holding AP groups down within the organizational hierarchy of an enterprise. Perception acts as a lens through which reality is viewed,…

The New ‘Normal’ Workspace in Accounts Payable and P2P

By Andrew Bartolini July 19, 2022Best Practices, Other, Research

Now in year three, COVID-19 continues to persist, and its outlook for the remainder of 2022 remains unclear. However, it is clear that much of the pre-pandemic world has faded…

The State of ePayables 2022: Mastering a Key Function at a Critical Time (Webinar Today)

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team June 28, 2022Best Practices, Research, Webinar

Join us today, June 28, at 2 PM ET for a complimentary webinar presentation based on our upcoming flagship market research report “The State of ePayables 2022” (click to register)…

The State of ePayables 2022 Survey is Now Open

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team April 14, 2022Research, Technology

The 2022 State of ePayables Take the New Survey! Now more than ever, the AP function is proving just how crucial it is to maintaining business continuity and we would…

AP 2022 BIG Predictions (Part 2): AP Becomes an Intelligence Hub, AP and Treasury Become Strategic Partners, Supply Chain Finance Utilization Increases

By Ardent Partners Analyst Team March 7, 2022Best Practices, News, Research, TechnologyNo Comments

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published its AP-themed report, “Accounts Payable 2022: Big Trends and Predictions”. Over the next few weeks, this site will feature articles highlighting the key discussion…