How AP Can Affect Enterprise Working Capital
Our annual "State of ePayables" research survey is now open. Your responses will help us establish the Best-in-Class metrics that readers can use to benchmark the performance of their AP…
The Value of Analytical Thinking for the P2P Team
Our annual "State of ePayables" research survey is now open. Your responses will help us establish the Best-in-Class metrics that readers can use to benchmark the performance of their AP…
Why Accounts Payable and Treasury are Natural Partners
The accounts payable (“AP”) team has, in recent years, taken on new importance to the enterprise as a source of financial and operational intelligence. The rich data that AP collects…
Why Managing Supplier Payments Matters
Efficiency rules in the modern business world, and cost savings are frequently one of the primary goals of executive leadership. As part of this objective to run an efficient organization,…
P2P News Roundup: SAP Inks Payments Deal with First Data; Bottomline Announced Paymode-X Growth
One of the more important jobs of the procure-to-pay (“P2P”) and accounts payable (“AP”) professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical…
Accounts Payable Predictions for 2016: Greater Collaboration, More Automation
The accounts payable (“AP”) department has experienced a number of changes over the past 15 years. At first little more than a back-office function that processed invoices and supplier payments,…
Collaboration as the Unified Field Theory of Procurement and Accounts Payable
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is proud to announce the publication of a new report on the trends and value drivers for AP and procurement, sponsored by Corcentric, and available here…
How Trends in Procurement Affect Accounts Payable
Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is proud to announce the publication of a new report on the trends and value drivers for AP and procurement, sponsored by Corcentric, and available here…
Summer Rewind: Two Approaches to Building a P2P Process
Editor’s Note: With summer in full swing, many of the practitioners in the accounts payable world are taking vacations ahead of the crush of the fall months. In honor of…
Upcoming Webinar — Treasure Trove: The Rising Role of Treasury in AP
The role of Treasury has shifted dramatically in the past decade, especially since the financial crisis of 2008/2009. Where Treasury once could content itself with protecting corporate assets, the new…