ePayables Study Hall: The Opportunities
ePayables Study Hall – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables Study Hall series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts…
ePayables Study Hall: The Challenges
Over the next few weeks, we will spend some time focusing on ePayables by presenting an educational series– an "ePayables Study Hall," if you will – that is intended as…
How Source-to-Settle Solutions Manage (and Leverage) Big Data – eProcurement
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 –…
Innovation Continues to Drive the Evolution of Procurement Technology (Report Preview!)
Ardent Partners’ latest and greatest technology-focused research, Sourcing and Procurement: The 2016-2017 Technology and Innovation Outlook Report! Click here to download, has published and is now available to download. Click here to get your…
The Trends (and Benefits) of Solution Suite Adoption: CPOs Take Notice
Ardent Partners has been tracking the supply management solution provider market, as well as the strategies, processes, and behaviors of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), their teams, and end users for…
AP Can Help Quench Treasury’s Thirst for Liquidity (Part II)
Today's article, which will examine several opportunities that exist for AP to help quench treasury’s thirst for liquidity, is a continuation or Part 2 of this article from last week. The…
AP Can Help Quench Treasury’s Thirst for Liquidity (Part I)
Not Your Father's Treasury Department The finance department in many enterprises has an unofficial hierarchy among functions. Near the top is the corporate treasury team, which is tasked with ensuring…
Webinar! Transforming Accounts Payable for the 21st Century
Several layers of today’s accounts payable ("AP") function have gone unnoticed in recent years. As modern organizations continue to look internally for competitive advantages, they will soon realize that taking…
P2P Tech Roundup – August 30, 2016
CPO Rising regularly publishes news stories and general announcements on the people, companies, and events that have and will have a big impact on supply management. Our regular “P2P Tech Roundup" series…
Genpact: A Procurement BPO Provider Swims Upstream
Genpact (Ticker: G), the business process outsourcing (“BPO”) firm, has a long history as a procurement outsourcing provider. Today's article highlights my recent conversation with Jonathan Kirby, the SVP and Practice…