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AP Automation: Beyond Transactional Efficiency

By Andrew Bartolini March 26, 2018Best Practices, Process, Research

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: 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…

Understanding Supply Chain Finance

By Philip Bartolini October 16, 2017Best Practices, Process

Supply chain finance (“SCF”) is an advanced financial solution that accomplishes two primary goals: suppliers get paid more quickly but at a slight discount, and buyers preserve their days payable…

ePayables Convergence Part II: Supplier Management

By Andrew Bartolini August 10, 2017Best Practices, Process, Research

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners recently published our annual AP-themed report, The State of ePayables 2017: The Convergence of Cash, Suppliers, and Intelligence. Today’s article is part of a new four-part series focused…

Six Strategies to Expand Commercial Card Programs

By Andrew Bartolini May 10, 2017Research, Solution Providers, Technology

Leading organizations know that in order to maintain market share and market relevance, they must find strong trading partners with shared or aligned interests and develop a coalition of willing…

ePayables 2015: Which AP Technologies Hold the Most Interest?

By Andrew Bartolini September 29, 2015Best Practices, Solution Providers, Technology

It is with great pleasure that Ardent Partners announces the publication of its latest state of accounts payable (AP) research report—“ePayables 2015: Higher Ground.” Like the annual reports that came…

The Value of Better, “Deeper” Remittance Information in ePayments

By Andrew Bartolini May 8, 2015Best Practices, Research

Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is excited to announce the launch of its 2015 “State of ePayables” market research survey, available here. All participants of this landmark research survey will receive a complimentary…

The Compliance Management Checklist, Part I

By Christopher J Dwyer October 15, 2014Best Practices, Process, Solution ProvidersNo Comments

Welcome to the first article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of…

eInvoicing – Creating Value for Suppliers

By Andrew Bartolini February 4, 2014Solution ProvidersNo Comments

In the earlier post (The Rise of the B2B Network and B2B Payments) we talked about the increasing need for eInvoicing providers to create value for suppliers as well as…

Hot Button Issues for AP Leaders in 2014

By Andrew Bartolini January 9, 2014Best PracticesNo Comments

This is really a continuation of the last article which focused on trends & predictions for 2014 around technology in the AP/P2P space. Today, I wanted to continue the discussion…