Ariba Archives - Payables Place

Monday First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals

By Andrew Bartolini March 5, 2018Process, Solution Providers, Technology

Supplier Portals, also known as Vendor Portals, have played a significant role in enabling more suppliers globally to transact and communicate with their customers across the P2P process. These portals…

B2B ePayments: 5 Strategies to Unlock Value in Your Procure-to-Pay Chain (Upcoming Webinar)

By Andrew Bartolini February 17, 2016Best Practices, EventsNo Comments

There is significant enterprise value hidden in the supplier, or vendor, payments that enterprises make every month. Smart organizations realize this, and have begun examining their payments process to uncover…

Summer Rewind — Apple Pay: The Killer App for Mobile Payments?

By Andrew Bartolini August 11, 2015Technology

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…

Payables News Weekly: Ariba Launches Total User Experience; Hubwoo Reports Q2 Revenues

By Andrew Bartolini July 31, 2015News

One of the more important jobs of the accounts payable professional is keeping up with what is happening in the industry at large. This is critical for a few reasons,…

AribaLIVE 2015: Looking to the Future of Business Commerce

By Andrew Bartolini June 23, 2015Events, Solution Providers, Technology

[Publisher's Note: Today’s article is an analysis of two similar but separate presentations delivered by Ariba executives at their user conferences this spring. The first was at AribaLIVE in Las…

Reasons to Implement Scan-and-Capture and Trends in AP: What You May Have Missed

By Andrew Bartolini May 1, 2015Best Practices, Solution Providers

Between the reasons to implement scan-and-capture invoicing and a discussion of trends in accounts payable (AP), there has been substantial ground covered at Payables Place these past few weeks. If…

AribaLIVE Case Study: Efficiency, Visibility, and Compliance … Oh My: Automate AP for Organizational Growth

By Andrew Bartolini April 17, 2015Best Practices, Events, News

The accounts payable (AP) function has changed significantly in the past 15 years; more opportunity exists now, in fact, to effect change than ever before, which has allowed many AP…

Payables News Weekly: Quantitative Easing in Europe and the Federal Reserve Loves Bitcoin

By Andrew Bartolini January 27, 2015News

We’re trying a bit of a different format with Payables News Weekly this time around. From here on out, we’ll lead with a handful of stories big enough to warrant…

Three Must Know Stats about Electronic Payments

By Andrew Bartolini January 8, 2015Best Practices, Solution Providers

For about a decade, the analysts at Ardent Partners have been researching and benchmarking technologies, processes, and performance within accounts payable including electronic or B2B payments. This is an area…

Best of 2014: Why Does the SupplierPay Pledge Matter?

By Andrew Bartolini January 2, 2015News

[Editor's Note: Today, the second day of 2015, we wrap up our best of 2014 series with our look at the U.S. government's SupplierPay pledge, which originally appeared on August 25.] On July…