Five AP Metrics that Matter
Building a business case for accounts payable (“AP”) automation is a critical part of transforming the invoice management process. Without a detailed business case that can convince stakeholders to invest…
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…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – Spend Analysis
In the digital age, organizations as a whole and procurement departments in particular swim in data. It is everywhere, spread across an alphabet soup of internal and external systems –…
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…
Private Equity Firm to Buy SciQuest and Take it Private
On Tuesday, North Carolina-based SciQuest (Nasdaq: SQI), which offers a suite of cloud-based supply management solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to be acquired by affiliates of Accel-KKR, an Atlanta and…
Miss Any of These Events This Spring? Catch Up, Today!
Editor's Note: It's been a busy few months here at Ardent Partners, and the Memorial Day Weekend has given us a chance to pause and reflect on the ground that…
Fraud Prevention (2) – CPO Strategies
Today, we follow up on our last article, which discussed procurement fraud and Apple’s bad apple, Paul Shin Devine, who has been accused of taking more than $1 million in illegal kickbacks from the…
ANNOUNCING – Contingent Workforce Weekly: A New Podcast Series from Ardent Partners
Ardent Partners is excited to announce Contingent Workforce Weekly, a new weekly podcast that will tackle a variety of issues within the non-employee workforce world, including the evolution of talent…
The Value of Change Management for Accounts Payable
Changing a business process is not an easy task; it takes a significant amount of time and effort to first motivate stakeholders to want to change, and then to actually…
Webinar! It Pays to Pay Electronically: What Does Paperless Mean to You?
For many in Procurement and Accounts Payable, going paperless cuts out a lot of the pain associated with manual processing. ePayments are often described as a digital easy button. But…