• Showdown at the Compliance Corral

    May 21, 2012

    Showdown at the Compliance Corral

    Ardent Partners’ Report, CPO Rising 2011: Innovative Ideas for the Decade Ahead, showed that the average compliance rate in the market today is 62.9%. Not exactly great but it is... Read more

  • Support Your Local Maverick?

    May 16, 2012

    Support Your Local Maverick?

    A maverick is defined as “a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. Synonyms: nonconformist, individualist;... Read more

  • ePayables 101: Graduation

    May 14, 2012

    ePayables 101: Graduation

    Congratulations! If you’ve read the links below, you have successfully completed CPO Rising’s ePayables 101 course, an immersion program focused on AP Automation and Transformation. The Challenges The Opportunities The... Read more

  • ePayables 101: More Metrics

    May 11, 2012

    ePayables 101: More Metrics

     ePayables 101 – More Metrics Today we’ll look at the other key metrics (besides the average cost per invoice discussed last time) that can help an AP department better understand... Read more

  • ePayables 101: The Metrics

    May 10, 2012

    ePayables 101: The Metrics

    ePayables 101 – The Metrics Part 4 of our ePayables 101 series starts right in with a discussion of the key AP performance metric that can be used to build... Read more

  • ePayables 101: The Approach

    May 9, 2012

    ePayables 101: The Approach

    We continue to build out our ePayables 101 series with this article focused on how to begin a push for AP transformation or “The Approach” (The first two articles are... Read more

  • ePayables 101: The Opportunities

    May 8, 2012

    ePayables 101: The Opportunities

    ePayables 101 – The Opportunities Last time, the ePayables 101 series began with a look at some (but, not all) of the key challenges facing the average accounts payable organization... Read more

  • ePayables 101: The Challenges

    May 7, 2012

    ePayables 101: The Challenges

    As I mentioned last time, we are dedicating this week to ePayables by presenting a “course” – ePayables 101 – that is intended as a reference and on-going resource for... Read more

  • Using ePayables to Enable Trade Finance and Optimize Working Capital

    May 4, 2012

    Using ePayables to Enable Trade Finance and Optimize Working Capital

    With an exciting new report from Vishal Patel, Ardent Partners’ Research Director focused on ePayables in the offing and an exciting new ePayables-related venture soon to be announced, we’ve decided... Read more

  • Building the First Sourcing Pipeline – Getting Started

    May 2, 2012

    Building the First Sourcing Pipeline – Getting Started

    A procurement organization has just launched a new eSourcing tool. OK, now what? Here’s what – it’s time to start using it. Time to build a sourcing pipeline. A sourcing... Read more