Tag: AP Automation
AP Automation: Moving past paper to tackle complexity
For the longest time, conversation around the future of accounts payable has revolved around paper. But paper checks and paper invoices limit the automation you can achieve, so it makes sense that the conversation is...
It’s time to digitize AP payments and processes, and AP teams know it
It seems like there’s a built-in habit among accounts payable teams to plug away with current processes and tools, no matter how cumbersome they might be. It’s admirable, given that often neither the processes nor...
When you think AP automation, think roadmap
When we talk to clients and prospective customers about achieving AP automation and the many benefits that come with it, we’ve long tended to focus on what they need to do in order to be...
Every industry has AP challenges. Every industry needs the same solution.
There are only a few certain things in life. Benjamin Franklin said those were death and taxes. Another old proverb lists birth, death and change. And anyone who has ever called a helpline knows being...
Post-pandemic payables: what’s changed and what’s next
Ardent Partners, The State of ePayables 2021
Why payment automation in real estate is an accounts payable and vendor victory
In real estate and property, vendor networks are strategically important. But for most real estate businesses today, these networks are holding both accounts payable teams and the entire business back. Far too many payment steps...
What’s accelerating the great AP acceleration?
In 2010, you couldn’t throw a rock in the world of accounts payable without hitting someone who was eager to tell you check payments were going away. By 2020, the predictions went, checks would be...
Finding a B2B payments provider can be daunting, these 7 checkpoints can help you decide
The search is on for banks and companies seeking to automate B2B payment processes and provide alternatives to paper-based, person-to-person business payments transactions. Automation isn’t a new concept for B2B payments. It’s been slowly...
Banks and businesses focus sights on more B2B payments automation
The rise to automate and digitize business payments and process has accelerated rapidly in 2020 as banks and companies reimagine how they conduct business. To find out what this means for the banking industry and...
Experts Predict What Payments Will Look Like Post-COVID-19
We’re experiencing a time when a single factor– the COVID-19 pandemic – is reverberating throughout all aspects of civilization, around the world. Societal norms are in flux as people social distance, the infrastructure of the...