Change Management

As AP Supervisor at Swift Energy, an oil and natural gas company with operations in Louisiana and Texas, Pamela Thomas is highly focused on effective payables process management. The centralized AP

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Upgrading your AP system is challenge enough, but preparing for a company expansion at the same time creates a double stressor, says Michelle Beall, Payables and Corporate Operations Manager at… Read More

When the 15-person AP department at the National Marrow Donor Program/Be The Match (Minneapolis, MN) recently switched to a new accounting system, it was a big adjustment for staff, says Tina Reed,… Read More

Changes to the accounts payable process can be traumatic. Whether you are implementing a new piece of technology or making updates to your policy manual (or doing both), your staff is going to be… Read More

Challenge: An AP manager at an insurance company was launching an electronic invoicing application for its vendor payables operation. "People were used to working with paper invoices and signing

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By Pam Miller, APMD Moving from a "paper-full" process to a paperless process in AP would certainly count as an AP revolution. Maybe your AP department has already declared a win—in which case,… Read More

Company growth is always a plus—it certainly beats downsizing—but it can present major challenges for the accounts payable department. “My company experienced consistent growth over the last

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Managing change is a constant challenge in AP, says Jeanne Impey, senior accounting clerk in the AP department at Luminex Corporation in Austin, Texas. She explains that much of the change in her AP

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Some would see it as a tall order: Move the department, get the AP staff working in a paperless environment, and have half of the AP department telecommuting–all in a month’s time. And oh yes,

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Some would see it as a tall order: Move the department, get the AP staff working in a paperless environment, and have half of the AP department telecommuting–all in a month’s time. And oh yes,

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