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Instant Analysis: Acquisition in the Clouds – SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion

By Andrew Bartolini May 22, 2012Articles, Solution Providers, Strategy, Technology1 Comment

The procurement-themed events held at SAP's SAPPHIRE in Orlando last Monday night were abuzz with the rumor that SAP was going to make a huge cloud procurement announcement the next…

ePayables 101: Graduation

By Andrew Bartolini May 14, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

ePayables 101: More Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 11, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

ePayables 101: The Metrics

By Andrew Bartolini May 10, 2012Articles, General, Lists, Process, Procure-to-Pay

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…

ePayables 101: The Approach

By Andrew Bartolini May 9, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

ePayables 101: The Opportunities

By Andrew Bartolini May 8, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

ePayables 101: The Challenges

By Andrew Bartolini May 7, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

Using ePayables to Enable Trade Finance and Optimize Working Capital

By Andrew Bartolini May 4, 2012Articles, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Technology

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…

Heinz – Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 2)

By Andrew Bartolini April 23, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Solution Providers, Strategic Sourcing, Strategy, Technology

Today we continue with Part Two of the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts (two presentations and one, one-on-one interview all by/with Christopher Yope, Heinz' Global SRM…

Heinz’ Keystone to Procurement Success (Part 1)

By Andrew Bartolini April 20, 2012Articles, Events, General, Process, Procure-to-Pay, Solution Providers, Technology

Another day, another article, another event, another great presentation from a leading procurement group..... This time, we focus in on the H.J. Heinz procurement story as told in three parts…