P-Cards

In recent years, travel and entertainment (T&E), fleet, and purchasing cards have dramatically changed the corporate procurement environment. They’ve helped minimize the need for cash advances,

In today’s technologic age, it’s not surprising that technology plays a key role in a successful commercial card program. It’s also not surprising that technology, and specific elements

In the mid-1990s, many companies began examining their financial processes: purchasing, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. Part of what they found was that their costs well exceeded 2- to 3

For North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), what once took weeks now takes hours. A purchasing card program implemented in 1999 has enabled the school system to streamline its

When purchasing cards blossomed onto the landscape in the mid-1990s, the strategy behind the concept was pretty straightforward. It was based on the assumption that the cost of purchasing an item

Many businesses have implemented purchasing card programs but the question is, are those initiatives successful? “A big mistake that companies make when they put a purchasing card program in place

Purchasing cards originated in the late 1980s and began to catch on in the mid-1990s as a financial re-engineering tool to streamline accounts payable processes. Originally targeted for small-dollar

Can an Invisible Purchasing Card Reduce Costs for Your AP Department? Payment automation has long been the goal for accounts payable departments drowning in a sea of paper invoices. Corporate