Best of 2014: AribaPay Looks to Simplify, Improve B2B ePayments
[Editor's Note: Today, the first day of 2015, we continue our best of 2014 series with our look at AribaPay, which originally appeared on October 3.] It’s an acknowledged fact that…
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…
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…
Why Haven’t ePayments Completely Replaced Paper Checks?
Electronic payments offer many advantages over paying with paper check. Ardent Partners research has shown that, no matter the payment method (i.e., ACH, wire, card, networks, etc.), ePayments cost up…
Business Networks and ePayments: Transforming the B2B Commerce Landscape
The world of business-to-business (B2B) commerce changes constantly; the current climate for enterprises at all levels is no different. Ever-increasing globalization and technology innovation, as well as the quickening speed…
3 Ways Suppliers Benefit from Virtual Payment Cards
The benefits that virtual payment cards provide to buyers are expressed quite well in vendor marketing materials, as well as in several previous articles here at Payables Place. What’s not…
The Compliance Management Checklist, Part II: Complex Compliance
Welcome to the second 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…
What are Virtual Payment Cards?
It’s a safe bet that commercial cards are, if not common knowledge, then at least easily recognizable in the business world. The venerable purchasing card (p-card) has existed since the…
Which Commercial Card is Right for You?
For more than 70 years, enterprises of all sizes have used commercial payment cards to purchase everything from airline tickets to office supplies. This flexibility has led solution providers to…
Ariba Pay, Compliance, and Complex Spend: The Past Two Weeks of Payables Analysis
We covered a lot of ground on Payables Place in the past two weeks; from travel and expense management goals, through the CFO’s viewpoint on the travel and expense market,…