April 2011 Archives

AP Audit Articles

• Lavante and Basware Launch 2012 Future of AP Seminar Series in Houston, Texas
  On Thursday, February 16, we were happy to co-host the first of a our Future of AP: Five Top Changes Coming to AP lunch & learn series in Houston, Texas.  We had a record turnout, with a great cross section of companies represented – across industries and size of organization.  As usual, the session offered Read More... […]
• How One Healthcare Provider Applied Lavante to Clean Up Vendor File and Drive Recovery Dollars – Recapping a Recent Industry Conference Session
  Last month at the IFO’s HPAS conference I had the pleasure of co-presenting a session with Jennifer Barnett, former AP Manager of Summa Health and current AP Manager for Walmart Foundation.  The session, entitled Moving Beyond Manual Processes to Improve AP Efficiencies, focused on how while at Summa Health, Jennifer had worked to move away Read More... […]
• Benefiting from a Prescription for Clean Data: A Case Study
  A recent case study developed by Spend Matters details  how a North American and global procurement organization for a top five pharmaceutical company applied a defined exercise and solution implementation from Lavante to discover where it had excess risk exposure, lack of policy compliance, overpayments and other cost driving issues. The procurement organiz […]
• New Resources and Best Practices Advice: Lavante In The News
  Word is spreading like wildfire. Articles featuring best practices and tips on credit recovery from Lavante have been hitting the streets over the past two months. If you are looking for some expert advice on how best to put dollars back to your bottom line, the following articles may give you the valuable insight you Read More... […]
• Seven Tips to Avoid the Impact of Bad Supplier Data
  Bad data can be at the root of many finance and accounts payable challenges. And there are many ways vendor data can be processed that cause duplicate vendor files to be set up. Consider the various ways that a company names can be constructed.  The screen shot below how the Lavante Recovery™ solution has located Read More... […]