Best of 2024: AP Is a Value Driver
Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on Payables Place, we’re publishing some “best of” 2024 articles as we reflect on last year and begin tackling 2025. A value driver…
AP Is a Value Driver
A value driver is a factor that increases the worth of an asset, function, process, outcome, or business. Over the past few years, it has become clear to a majority…
Diving into the Data: Curing your AP Pain-Points with Automation (New Webinar)
Are your manual AP processes causing some serious symptoms, like limited visibility, inefficiency and poor cash management? Learn about the automation antidote to heal your paper-based pains and AP process…
Monday First Thing: Collaboration in AP, as in Politics, Is the Way to Achieve Real Success
Much has been in the news lately about what happens when two groups cannot, or will not work with one another to solve (major) pressing issues. Most of us are…
AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency
Throughout my career, I’ve worked with hundreds of companies looking to automate their Accounts Payable operations. Typically, the organizations are drowning in paper, suffering from manual, time-consuming, costly, error-prone processes…
AP’s Evolving Role in Cash Management
From hard coinage to electronic funds, cash has been the basic building block of business success for centuries. Cash allows enterprises to pay employees, fulfill debt obligations, invest in new…
3 Ways Accounts Payable and Treasury Can Collaborate
Accounts payable (“AP”) and treasury can and should be natural partners within the average enterprise. AP manages a significant source of cash outflows in the form of supplier payments, and…
UPCOMING WEBINAR: Unlocking Cash with Supply Chain Finance
As businesses continue to eliminate manual- and paper-based processes from the front-end of the accounts payable (“AP”) function, attention has turned to streamlining and driving more value from the payment…
3 Reasons AP is Vital to Cash Management
Accounts payable (“AP”) in the modern age has the potential to become a hub of financial and operational intelligence for the greater enterprise, pushing this once back-office function into new…
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…