Payables News Weekly: China Cuts Interest Rates; Nvoicepay Launches First Event
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,…
Payables News Weekly: Visa and MasterCard in Crimea, and Business Travel Booms in China
The northeastern United States is on its third week of snow storms big enough to shutter schools for successive days. This week, for example, Massachusetts—where Ardent Partners is located—has enjoyed…
Best of 2014: ePayables 2014: The State of ePayables Technology
[Editor's Note: It's almost 2015 and, to cap off 2014 in style, Payables Place will run five of the best posts from the 2014 archives. Today we kick things off with the…
An Early Payment Discount Example to Sink Your Teeth Into
Enterprises around the world want to maximize working capital for a variety of reasons, not least of which includes freeing up cash from operations in order to hire new employees,…
Business Networks and ePayments: Transforming the B2B Commerce Landscape
The world of business-to-business (B2B) commerce changes constantly; the current climate for enterprises at all levels is no different. Ever-increasing globalization and technology innovation, as well as the quickening speed…
Does SupplierPay Actually Mean Small Businesses Will Get Paid Sooner?
Six weeks ago, President Obama announced the voluntary SupplierPay initiative. Already this week, we’ve gone over why the pledge matters in the first place and the technology tools that could…
Three Technologies that Speed Access to Working Capital
The SupplierPay pledge that 26 large corporations signed in a July press conference at the White House has as one of its two tenets the need to craft financing solutions…
ePayables 2014: How to Get Noticed by Your Executive Team (in a Good Way)
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers,…
ePayables 2014: Accounts Payable and Procurement Collaboration — Two Hearts Beat as One
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers,…
ePayables 2014: Five Drivers of Top AP Performance
Ardent Partners recently published our annual ePayables report, “ePayables 2014: The Quest,” and, like all of our payables reports this year, the research is geared toward AP leaders, financial managers,…