When PayStream posed the question, “where’s the craziest place you’ve found a missing invoice?” to leading Account Payable industry representatives, we found some of the answers quite shocking and comical. We’ve highlighted a couple of the top responses to our …

While monitoring cash outflows has traditionally been a treasury function, a growing cash management role for AP has evolved in recent years. This is because automation is facilitating the AP profession’s increasing focus on analytics and spend visibility, and away …

We recently published our 2015 Supplier Network Management (SNM) Report, and in researching and writing it, our analysts uncovered a host of benefits realized by organizations that have implemented SNM technology. These include provide more secure transaction processing, stronger …

Discount capture continues to be a buzzword in finance circles these days – with buyers taking advantage of the standard discount terms of “2% 10, net 30,” and suppliers seeking to speed up their cash flow cycles. These buyers should …

Payments are the final step in the invoice receipt-to-pay processing cycle. With such significant effort spent on the initial stages of accounts payable processing, such as invoice receipt, matching, and workflow, it is important that organizations are also able exchange …

Finance is under the gun.
The latest FEI/Robert Half Benchmarking study shows that finance leadership is increasingly being tasked to provide more predictive, actionable information. It’s no longer about saving money with less staff, but about helping CFO’s and division …

Just like dark and light and yin and yang need to co-exist for the universe to be in harmony, buyers and suppliers require a healthy, balanced relationship for the business to run smoothly. While a number of sayings like “the …

Few things in life are as painful as a visit to the dentist. But dealing with regulatory pressures in accounts payable is no piece of cake either. Three pesky compliance issues – sales and use tax, unclaimed property and 1099’s …