Goodbye to Business as Usual: Think Piece

Saying goodbye can be difficult and uncomfortable, but procurement doesn’t have a choice. Business as usual is no longer an option, according to Oxford Economics’ future-of-procurement research.

Download this think piece to see how more than 1,000 procurement executives and practitioners view the evolution of procurement, with a focus on day-to-day operations and KPIs. You’ll learn how…

  • Executives and practitioners do not always see eye-to-eye on which KPIs to measure
  • Strategic work with suppliers is the leading area executives want to see their organizations emphasize in day-to-day work
  • Managing increased categories of spend presents different challenges to executives and non-executives

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Making Collaboration Pay Off: Think Piece

What are the benefits you could expect from improving collaboration at your organization? Consider the percentage of executives, surveyed by Oxford Economics, who agreed that increased collaboration was having a measurable impact in these areas:

  • Cost savings from new initiatives – 60 percent
  • Better management of supply risk and compliance – 57 percent
  • Driving additional revenue – 45 percent

Download this in-depth think piece to find out how increased collaboration can help reshape your procurement function. You’ll learn how collaboration is on the rise within organizations and outside the firewall. You’ll discover how more than 1,000 procurement executives and practitioners worldwide are practicing and benefiting from new levels of collaboration. And you’ll get insight into which technologies and operational changes are supporting these changes.

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Purchase to Pay Insights: 2015-2016

Thinking about implementing a fully automated Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) solution? Then this new eBook from Accounts Payable News should be number one on your reading list. You’ll find valuable insights, tips, and best practices from accounts payable and pr…

The State of B2B Payments

E-payments are the future. How close are you getting there?

In this report from Ardent Partners, 200 of your peers share experiences and benefits they’re deriving from electronic payments, including…

  • Greater control over payment scheduling and execution
  • Streamlined payment review, approval, and execution
  • Increased cost savings and productivity

You’ll also get a comprehensive view into the e-payments marketplace, and what strategies you can adopt to improve your B2B payment processes. The bottom line? E-payments are all about driving more value for your organization.

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The User Impact of Top-Notch Data Preparation

All data is created equal, right? A few missing pieces of information here and there, a few duplicate addresses – no big deal, right? The fact is, poor data quality can manifest itself in a variety of ways in the typical organization. Some of the impac…

Critical Steps to Enhanced Data Quality

Duplicated. Corrupted. Incomplete. Absent. Late. If any of these adjectives apply to your most important information, you might just have a data quality problem. While the business impact of poor data quality can be frightening, the benefits of high da…