accounts payable

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

With the release of my 18th-annual Accounts Payable-themed report, my team and I continue our nearly two-decade-long dialogue with Accounts Payable (AP), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and other finance leaders. The report captures the experience, performance, perspective, and intentions of a wide range of AP departments via the response of 190 AP and finance professionals. The report [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Kofax on October 5th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on Digital AP Innovation: Transforming Your Accounts Payable Department for Success. The evolution of ePayables technologies, spanning more than two decades, has ushered in a new era of innovation. Today, high adoption rates and robust usage of ePayables solutions are pivotal [...]

This week, we’re featuring a technology news round-up with the latest provider announcements for accounts payable, procure-to-pay, and finance professionals. If you are an AP, P2P, or finance solution provider and you are continually innovating the way that accounts payable and procure-to-pay leaders and practitioners drive value, we’d love to hear from you. Please drop [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Corcentric on August 29th (11 AM ET) for a webcast on The State of ePayables 2023: Paving the Way for a Smarter Future. The continued economic and market uncertainty means enterprises must leverage their big data even more to navigate the business horizon. Operationally, new technologies play a critical role in [...]

Join Ardent Partners and Yooz next Wednesday, July 26th for a webinar that highlights the key findings from Ardent Partners’ 2023 AP Pulse on the Mid-Market eBook.  “The AP Pulse on the Mid-Market in 2023” is a compilation of knowledge and performance metrics needed by mid-market AP and finance organizations to gain key insights into accounts payable [...]

Given their recent performance, many AP teams are destined for greater things, supported by the growing perception of the function as adding real value to the enterprise at large. However, as shown in the figure below, the path forward in 2022 is paved with more hurdles standing between AP organizations and their targeted results for [...]

[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 points from the report. Prediction #8: AP Will Help Manage the Extended Workforce Ardent’s research has shown that 46.5% of the average company’s total workforce [...]

Ardent Partners is pleased to announce that the survey for our annual “State of ePayables” report is now open. If you have 15 minutes to spare today or later this week to complete the survey, our team would be most appreciative. The COVID-19 global pandemic created new issues and challenges for AP and Finance organizations [...]

I’ve been involved in many AP automation initiatives over the course of my career, all of them involved some type of formal (or informal) ROI calculation and cost/benefit analysis. Most organizations when looking to justify a project invariably take a very tactical approach that places increased importance on hard dollar savings for project justification. This [...]