Best of 2020: Compliance – Embrace It, Don’t Fear
[Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks on CPO Rising, we’re publishing some “best of” 2020 articles as we reflect on the year and prepare for the new year ahead.]…
Driving Value from Accounts Payable
Across every enterprise function, a real impact has been felt by the pandemic fallout. Procurement faces supply chain disruptions, finance must ensure there is funding to support operations, product management…
Technology’s Impact on ‘Best-in-Class’ AP Teams
Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer-prize winning author, speaker, energy expert, and economic historian once said that “people always underestimate the impact of technology.” One group not taking anything for granted are…
Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – Maximizing Spend Management with AP Automation Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle…
Best-in-Class AP in the Age of Intelligence
Businesses and consumers today are fully engulfed by technology and the data it creates and captures. The same holds true for AP departments across the globe. Accounts payable’s “Big Data”…
20 for 2020: Key Providers in the 2020s – Vertex
Earlier this year, we initiated the first of our planned 20 for 2020 series’ as an echo to the 10 for 2010 series that we used to launch this site. That first 2020 series…
Black Friday Deals (not really!)… Upcoming Webinars (yes, really!)
Webinar Descriptions To celebrate “Black Friday” Ardent Partners has put two “door-busting” webinars on the agenda. These dynamic presentations are designed for CPOs, procurement, P2P and AP leaders and will…
Best-in-Class AP Performance Requires Electronic Invoicing
There is no denying the many benefits that straight through processing of invoices brings to Accounts Payable. However, an organizations ability to achieve straight-through processing is contingent first and foremost…
Best in Class Organizations Are Leveraging B2B ePayments
For over a decade, Ardent Partners has leveraged a unique framework to highlight the performance of top-tier organizations (versus all others) by analyzing a specific set of benchmark criteria. Over…
Ardent’s “2K20 Series” – CFO Leadership in the Time of the Coronavirus Session
Ardent Partners hosted The CPO Rising 2K20 Virtual Series – The Resiliency Imperative as a way to bring together our global community of procurement, finance, and supply management professionals and collectively tackle…