Monday First Thing: Taking Accounts Payable to the Next Level
Zig Ziglar, famed American author and motivational speaker, once said “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” As AP organizations look…
Monday First Thing: How Much Time is Too Much Time to Spend with Your Suppliers?
This is actually a trick question...the answer depends on what you are spending your time discussing when you are with your suppliers. This is one of the topics we queried…
Monday First Thing: AvidXchange’s B2B Payments Revolution
AvidXchange held its annual user conference, Revolution 2018, in Chicago last week and we both attended the full conference and the pre-conference partner meetings. AvidXchange, a North Carolina-based provider of…
Monday First Thing: The Change in the ePayables Buying Process Over Time
The way enterprises do business has changed significantly over the past 15 years and these shifts are reflected in the way ePayables and P2P solution providers go to market today.…
Monday First Thing: A Conversation with Andre Hoddevik, Secretary General for OpenPEPPOL
I recently had the opportunity to connect with Andre Hoddevik, the Secretary General for OpenPEPPOL (Pan-European Public Procurement Online), a European-based, non-profit international association whose purpose is to enable European…
Monday First Thing: Supply Chain Finance – Creating a Win-Win Situation for Buyers and Suppliers
Supply Chain Finance (SCF) is something that we are being asked about much more today than we have in the past. Many of the practitioners we speak with have heard…
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…
Monday First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth Through the Partner Ecosystem, and Analytics Front and Center
After spending the better part of last week in Las Vegas at SAP Ariba Live, this week I headed to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to attend the SAP Concur Fusion…
Monday First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Ariba Live: The Network is Back and Corporate Social Responsibility Stands Tall
I spent the better part of last week at SAP Ariba Live in Las Vegas with fellow Ardent Partners' analysts Andrew Bartolini and Matthew York and wanted to share my…
Monday First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals
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…