-
Holistic Strategies and Approaches to Optimize P2P Operations and Performance
Leveraging technology to drive business value is an important organizational capability and most procurement departments fare poorly in this regard. Best-in-Class procurement teams have differentiated themselves with superior performance across... Read more
-
Payables Place First Thing: 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... Read more
-
The Marketplace is the Future – A Briefing with Tradeshift
The research team at Ardent Partners recently met with Tradeshift in its San Francisco headquarters. CEO and Chairman, Christian Lanng led the discussion attended by Chief Strategy Officer, Sarika Garg, Chief Marketing Officer, David Ahrens and other... Read more
-
Payables Place First Thing: Thoughts from SAP Concur Fusion: Delivering Value to Customers, Growth though 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 in Seattle... Read more
-
New Webinar from Ardent Partners: Top Strategies for P2P Success in the Mid-Market
The development of a Best-in-Class P2P program takes, among other things, sponsorship, effort, collaboration, vision, expertise, and a supporting technology infrastructure. Superior program design also remains a critical element in... Read more
-
Payables Place 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 thoughts and impressions of the event.... Read more
-
Payables Place First Thing: More Isn’t Necessarily Better When It Comes To Supplier Portals
Welcome to Ardent Partners’ weekly “Payables Place First Thing” article series. This series will feature recent articles from our sister site Payables Place, which is the global source of ePayables news,... Read more
-
Five Things to Consider Before Beginning Digital Transformation
The Chinese philosopher Laozi once wrote in the Tao Te Ching that “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” The statement is as true today as it was in the sixth... Read more
-
A Tale of Two Procurement Departments
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,... Read more
-
Payables Place First Thing: Why Doesn’t Accounts Payable Get the Recognition it Deserves?
I’ve been working with Accounts Payable (“AP”) professionals for almost 15 years now, and it never ceases to amaze me how infrequently they get the recognition and credit they wholeheartedly... Read more