Author: Michele Kerr

Learn how P2P, R2R, and Q2C connect procurement, finance, and revenue.
Understanding these processes helps finance teams improve visibility, speed up reporting, and make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Most AP teams track volume, cycle time, and cost per invoice—but those numbers don’t explain payment reliability, supplier experience, or risk. This guide breaks down the four APQC-backed accounts payable KPIs, the benchmarks behind them, and how to use them to improve performance without creating new exposure elsewhere in the process.

Cloud procurement software does more than move purchasing online. It removes the bottlenecks that make manual processes fail at scale. This guide covers what changes and how to evaluate the right fit.

Invoice approvals and purchase approvals solve different problems. One verifies a bill is correct and ready to pay. The other authorizes spend before you commit. Here’s how finance teams use both together, and how to tell when the lines are getting blurred.

Spend management and expense management serve different roles in financial operations. This article explains how they differ, where each applies, and how organizations use both to manage spending across the full lifecycle.

Spend visibility breaks down when finance can’t see what’s already been approved, ordered, or committed — only what’s been invoiced. This guide explains what spend visibility is, why it matters, and how finance teams improve visibility without slowing down purchasing.

Spend culture shows up in accruals, reclasses, and forecast variance. Learn what spend culture means for finance teams, where it breaks down, and how to improve close quality without rebuilding your entire process.

Managing payables and receivables is easier when you run both off two dependable lists: the next payment run and the AR aging. Here’s a practical weekly rhythm for keeping invoices moving, follow-ups focused, and timing clear.

Maverick spending often appears long after a purchase is made, during audits or invoice reviews. Learn what causes unmanaged purchasing to persist and how organizations reduce it by redesigning how spending decisions are made.

Charter schools often struggle financially when revenue tightens and costs don’t adjust quickly. This article breaks down five preventable purchasing mistakes that create avoidable cost, reconciliation headaches, and audit risk, and outlines practical ways charter finance teams can regain control without slowing schools down.

We’re big fans of lifelong learning, especially in procurement, where the day-to-day can change quickly. Even experienced teams run into new challenges as the … Best Procurement Books (2026): 5 Picks for Purchasing & Supply Chain Pros

A modern procurement process walkthrough and what’s changing in 2026 around intake, controls, and exception-driven analytics that help prevent stalled approvals and invoice exceptions.