Communication

To pay invoices more efficiently, it is crucial to have open communication between AP and your vendors’ AR departments, but that doesn’t mean it happens all that frequently. A flash survey of 25… Read More

Over the past year, the pandemic transformed Accounts Payable practices, procedures, workplaces, interactions, and team relationships. Yet despite numerous challenges, Accounts Payable survived and… Read More

On Friday, June 5th, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., IOFM conducted a Community Call with Financial Operations professionals in the High Invoice Volume Sector. The Zoom call was moderated by IOFM's Executive… Read More

While the COVID-19 crisis has physically distanced us, the need to feel part of a community has never been stronger. Financial Operations professionals are all facing unique challenges—issues that… Read More

There is nothing like a common goal to unite people. With every member of your accounts payable team working together for the same purpose - to ensure the company's invoices are paid on time -… Read More

AP and purchasing can build a cooperative, productive relationship when they begin to look at the purchase-to-pay cycle as one whole process rather than focusing on only their specific parts of P2P… Read More

By Keith D. Dabbs, MBA, CMRP, APM Coordination and collaboration between AP and  purchasing form the foundation of an effective P2P process—and communication is the ground on which this foundation… Read More

By sharing ideas with other professionals, both at meetings and online, you will learn how your peers are implementing the kinds of improvements that ultimately make their businesses more… Read More

By Pam Miller - With all the technological changes and challenges that accounts payable must now deal with, the last thing AP needs is to be calling in IT to resolve simple issues that could have… Read More

By Pam Miller - Things are humming along—invoices are being processed as efficiently as possible when, wham, no vendor in the system! Efficiency vanishes when this exception has to be processed… Read More